Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's ridiculous , she thought angrily ; he can bring tears to my eyes just by making me remember the simple things , like the way he reached out and unlocked the seatbelt for me — he 'd done it with one fluid gesture , no fumbling with it — how he had flung his jacket on to the back seat with the same faultless grace , how he 'd sauntered round the back of the car with a bemused smile when he 'd winkled it into a tight spot . |
| 2 | The race was the brainchild of Chay Blythe , he 'd planned it for 4 years and raised the money for 10 million pound yachts . |
| 3 | He 'd done it again , she realised in amazement — with just a few choice words he 'd knocked her for six . |
| 4 | Hagans said he 'd known her for two years and they 'd met by appointment . |
| 5 | It will certainly seem so to the Englishman ( as I take him to be ) , who found in the ‘ Envoi ’ to Hugh Selwyn Mauberley — Pound 's most explicit farewell to England , as he prepared to leave her in 1918 — ‘ externality : an externality which , considering what Mauberley attempts , is utterly disabling ’ . |
| 6 | He did feed them at one time , but they became so rampant he had to stop . |
| 7 | When , for example , Myra played disappointingly in the Scottish Girls ' after having made so big an impact at the Scottish Championship at Lossiemouth , he had to take her on one side and explain that she was far too exhausted , physically , to be able to give of her best : " I told her that she had to learn to pace herself and decide which tournaments she felt to be important . " |
| 8 | The argument is familiar — Lord Gordon-Walker said he had heard it for forty years — but , even more , it is a political argument . |
| 9 | He was devoted to the Prince , but he had served him for ten years and his wife had scarcely seen him . |
| 10 | He had crossed them off one by one until there was no one left but Una O'Malley . |
| 11 | He had done it on one of the western stretches of the Central Line from North Acton to Ealing Broadway , a rather more hair-raising experience than this . |
| 12 | He had found her in one of the outlying villages . |
| 13 | Earlier he had driven her to two tennis clubs to discuss membership . |
| 14 | He had bought it for thirty pounds , enclosed it with a honey-coloured Cotswold stone wall , and planted a small but fine orchard , now at the height of its production . |
| 15 | This time he had informed him of two witnesses that he had brought to Nottingham , who had subsequently identified him as the man they had seen in Cross Street at the time of the murder . |
| 16 | He had one question left , and he wanted to put it to one or other of the children alone . |
| 17 | ‘ He wanted to see us at four-thirty . ’ |