Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often he made them criticize each other 's work . |
| 2 | Betty 's letter said , ‘ Last year , as he was going to take part in the World Championship in Canada , he asked me to make some gold socks to match his waistcoat . |
| 3 | So he asked me to bring some stuff up . ’ |
| 4 | After five years as Chancellor of the Exchequer , and after the lost election of 1979 , he says he found himself wearing this Shirt of Nessus . |
| 5 | As Rick was re-baiting , the clip on his other rod pulled and on checking the line he found he had another take . |
| 6 | He let you run this place like a fucking doll 's house 'cause he loved you . |
| 7 | Sadly he declined , saying in a charmingly self-deprecatory way that he doubted he had any views worth hearing . |
| 8 | He advised her to spend more time with the Prince of Wales . |
| 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 reckoned he had enough time to see Maidstone , then get down to the pensione and change before making his way back up to the Vomero again . |
| 12 | He ordered me to cut this lot immediately ’ — he laid heavy stress on the word , his mouth twisted in a sardonic grin — ‘ and I told him it would have to wait till this afternoon . ’ |
| 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 | He urged them to compare any sum they had in mind with damages that might be awarded for physical injuries that lasted a lifetime . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | Her first step was to leave the kitchen exactly as he left it ; if he thought she had any intention of clearing his mess up behind him , then Luther was very much mistaken . |
| 18 | He had been in the habit , as he left in the mornings , of saying , ‘ Well , I 'm off to work now , ’ until one day , shortly before she deserted , she had , at those words , slammed shut the door of the dishwasher with a crash that shattered a wine glass and shouted at him : she had inquired , without much originality , what he thought she did all day , whether he imagined that cooking and shopping and washing and minding the child was not work , whether he supposed that she would now retire to her bed and lie there sucking chocolate bars and examining her fingernails until he chose to return for dinner . |
| 19 | He thought he made some kind of strangled gasp ; he knew his eyes would have expressed his emotions . |
| 20 | The garage attendant , who almost called in a SWAT team when he saw me arrive that morning , had a few more palpitations when he watched me climb in the back seat and start peeling off my biker 's gear . |
| 21 | He had also developed such affection for his owner , and had become so possessive of her , that if he saw her stroking another horse , he would roar with rage and throw himself sideways against the nearest fence , cutting and scraping his skin so that it bled . |
| 22 | When I moved to secondary school , the PE master used to encourage me in my running and , when he saw I had some potential , he took me down the North London AC and made me a member there so I could train a couple of times a week . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He felt he needed more brandy , but the glass was nearly empty and the bottle was in the kitchen . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Oh yes , they 're very , very clever so Doug was saying to me one day in work , walking dogs together in Wellington , he said I had this fellow yesterday , he just convinced a board that he did n't need any more treatment , he was cured erm , he would n't do any more |
| 27 | He says er , yeah he said I did some onion , and then , I got some of them , you know |
| 28 | We reached his office where he said he had some paperwork to complete before we stopped fairly soon for ten minutes at Kenora . |
| 29 | He said he had some news , but it was only for my ears and I must keep it confidential . |
| 30 | In his famous book Eastern Approaches , Maclean includes an account of his capture of the general , in whose home he said he found many photographs of his women friend . |