Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whereas if he had , if he sold them as separate houses he 'd probably get forty thousand apiece . |
| 2 | So he sold them for four X. |
| 3 | Course he started messing with the er bodywork and the engine and they just wrecked it , but then he sold it to another driver and this other bloke Bob erm oh |
| 4 | I said , yeah he sold it to some bloke out Ivybridge for er erm off , off road racing and stuff . |
| 5 | This failed and when the auction was over he sold it by private treaty ( agreement ) . |
| 6 | When I next saw the King , he asked me about this experience . |
| 7 | He asked me for 50,000 francs for Félix . |
| 8 | He led her into another room , and there listened , with a good deal of amazement , to Rose 's account of her extraordinary conversation with Nancy . |
| 9 | He led her up some stairs to a steel gallery from which he said they would get a bird's-eye-view of the operation . |
| 10 | he shopped around and he said that he got er I think he says he got it for sixty pound less I think it is , yeah |
| 11 | He got it in nine seconds . |
| 12 | five in the second half , bloody hell three goals in three minutes , fifty five , fifty seven , fifty eight Don Goodman this bloke got a hat-trick , he got it within fifteen minutes |
| 13 | But Housman did in fact say something about " Diffugere nives " — had said it , when the poet in him pre-empted the professor : he translated it into English verse , and in doing so produced a text that in its beauties or its blunders ( as perceived by diverse readers ) strikingly exemplifies a phenomenon , not exactly translation and not purely creative invention , called by our literary ancestors " Englishing " . |
| 14 | The rule devised was that if a man 's goods could be valued at £1 , but less than £2 , or alternatively if he owned nothing but received wages of £1 a year , he should pay 4d . |
| 15 | Captain 11 times , he repaid them with 3915 runs , 12 centuries , an average of 43.98 , and an adhesiveness more commonly found in tubes of Araldite . |
| 16 | He seated himself at one end , and Emily sat beside him . |
| 17 | He read it with less pleasure … |
| 18 | With a pinch of ingenuity , he built one from Thermolite blocks rendered with cement and sand . |
| 19 | Already under a probation order for attacking a songwriter the previous year , he found himself on another assault charge . |
| 20 | He found himself under severe pressure last year when the pit closure programme was announced . |
| 21 | He found himself in enormous buildings , with a labyrinth of rooms , and he was lost in the pile . |
| 22 | When he came across the bodies in the middle of Gayton village , he found one with broken legs , but still alive . |
| 23 | What Pausanias implies is that he found nothing in this source about the Celtic art of divination which had been extolled by Posidonius and other authorities . |
| 24 | He found plenty of thickish sticks and picked up far more than he needed . |
| 25 | He regarded her with ironic eyes , his lips a little pursed . |
| 26 | He regarded her with total disbelief . |
| 27 | While he regarded her with evident interest , she searched her mind . |
| 28 | He regarded her with calculated interest . |
| 29 | He regarded her with undisguised affection . |
| 30 | But the fact was that when it came to practical jokes , he regarded anybody as fair game , from the most fleeting acquaintance to the dearest friend . |