Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [adv] [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But Olechea was playing a winner 's game and he failed to come through because of his cowardice . |
| 2 | I half got up , then I looked at the hole he 'd gone down and at the paper in my hand . |
| 3 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 4 | As the balloon reached the eight hundred foot marker , he began chatting lightheartedly while at the same time watching the flag man on the ground . |
| 5 | As the fumes cleared from his brain he began to speculate seriously as to how the iconograph worked . |
| 6 | And he went staggering back and of course the horse trough got him here and he sat down in it . |
| 7 | I know he did come back because of the new tape on the Ansaphone . ’ |
| 8 | The window was barred although it was possible to reach through and open the casement He preferred to sit there because in better weather he could see out into the Inner Ward and the White Tower . |
| 9 | He liked swimming too and in the summer had built a raft , but it had disintegrated in the middle of the river while he and the twins had been sitting on it . |
| 10 | In his book Poetic Diction he had pointed out that in earlier times , those who first used language did not necessarily distinguish between ‘ metaphorical ’ and ‘ literal ’ uses of words . |
| 11 | Endill led the way through the corridors , talking about some of the rooms he had visited nearby and in other parts of the school . |
| 12 | With cool detachment he had explained clearly and in terms that were easy for her to grasp how the various items of equipment worked , only lapsing into irritation or sarcasm when he thought she was not making enough effort . |
| 13 | He had to sit down because of the shock . |
| 14 | He had to turn back cos of fog . |
| 15 | Something he had done rarely and with no great sense that ‘ this was it ’ . |
| 16 | He had to raid suddenly and with total surprise , to disable the fleet , destroy the airfields and block the entrance to the harbour — the whole fleet would then be held captive . |
| 17 | But , in Briggs words , ‘ there is no reason in principle why one can not have the best of both worlds ’ , he believed he had found just that in Sanskrit — a bridge between natural and artificial languages . |
| 18 | He had worked out that in his job he got to handle over 6,000 pairs of dirty underpants from sixty countries each year . |
| 19 | I told David that he had to get off and at least stand on the platform because it was the city where the Czar was murdered . |
| 20 | Here then was Bukharin 's view of the world he attempted to theorise about and in which to locate the transition period to socialism . |