Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made me do terrible things , things with animals , for instance . |
| 2 | Since McFarlane was an honourable man , North was not unduly worried when he asked him to alter official documents ; and when McFarlane sat down at North 's computer on November 18th to type in ‘ additional input that was radically different from the truth ’ , North still considered he must have had ‘ a darn good reason for not putting the straight story out ’ . |
| 3 | Whipping round , he found himself facing four figures in black military style combat gear and carrying guns and flashlights . |
| 4 | He found himself making imploring promises to God then retreated into hating himself and Maxim of course . |
| 5 | Sadly he declined , saying in a charmingly self-deprecatory way that he doubted he had any views worth hearing . |
| 6 | Phalangist officers of the time insist that he told them to kill 40 Muslims in reprisal . |
| 7 | Unhurriedly he studied her sparking green eyes . |
| 8 | He noticed she needed two hands to lift the silver pot . |
| 9 | He advised us to treat any claims of recovery with caution , and he forecast sluggish demand over the next 18 months . |
| 10 | Secretary of State Sir Patrick Mayhew said the RUC still had his full support and he believed they pursued all killers with equal determination . |
| 11 | He encouraged her to take public baths , he saw that she ate properly — though indifferent to food himself — and behaved with her like a caring mother , the kind of affectionate mother who had always inspired him . |
| 12 | He discovered it has two electrons that could be described as ready and waiting to form chemical bonds . |
| 13 | He heard him speak some words , but he could n't make out what they were ; he then saw him bend and kiss her , not on the cheek but on the lips . |
| 14 | He heard him say several times , ‘ I 'll never leave him . ’ |
| 15 | I mean he worked hard , he worked he worked six nights a week . |
| 16 | The spokesman said a number of mortar bombs had been found in the area in the past and he urged anyone finding similar items to contact the police immediately . |
| 17 | By ‘ thought ’ Descartes did not just mean deliberation , or some strictly intellectual activity ; he took it to include other forms of consciousness , such as imagining and feeling . |
| 18 | ‘ That I would have enough money to get started in anything I really wanted to do ; that he thought I had enough guts to be a success if I put my mind to it . |
| 19 | Asked once what he would do if he knew he had six months to live , he replied : ‘ I 'd type faster . ’ |
| 20 | He very rarely helped round the house , because he felt we had different jobs . |
| 21 | She had an odd , idiosyncratic way of looking at things — he felt she had some standards which he was n't familiar with , against which she matched the things they said . |
| 22 | Well , yes , I mean I can remember having a friend in Oxford who was schizophrenic and to be quite frank he needed to be certified and we could not get him to go to the doctors , and when he did he told sufficient stories that the doctor home with eye drops because he was seeing things . |
| 23 | He pictured himself smashing both fists down in the middle of the kitchen table , or taking a china jug off the shelf and hurling it across the room . |
| 24 | Palestinians with relatives still inside Israel could pay two-week visits — many , like Damiani 's wife , have gone wistfully to look from a distance at the homes they once bought and lived in — and the same Israeli spokesman who referred to the Palestinian Arabs as ‘ a community of refugees ’ said that he had himself assisted 40,000 Palestinians to rejoin their families and become Israeli citizens . |
| 25 | He said she wrote better letters than any woman he knew — ‘ only it is a different letter each time you read it . ’ |
| 26 | He said you gave marvellous picnics — and you look as if you would ! ’ |
| 27 | He said he had two sisters but that he was the only and beloved son . |
| 28 | He said he had environmental credentials as he was a life member of the British Butterfly Conservation Society and was also a member of the Kent branch of the Council for the Preservation of Rural England . |
| 29 | He said he witnessed repeated instances of police brutality in August and early September , when activists held almost daily demonstrations in townships outside Cape Town . |
| 30 | He said he adored hard-bitten policemen . |