Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | I said , yeah he sold it to some bloke out Ivybridge for er erm off , off road racing and stuff . |
| 3 | When I next saw the King , he asked me about this experience . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He read it with less pleasure … |
| 7 | He re-emphasised it on another occasion : ‘ I identify with this notion … |
| 8 | He lifted it with both hands to take a bite , glancing wistfully at his cigarette in the ashtray . |
| 9 | George MacKerracher was a character in himself , and although I always suspected that he made up most of his stories , he told them with such sincerity and verve that they were quite believable . |
| 10 | He told me about this condition quite openly , including the impulse to throw himself over cliffs etc . |
| 11 | Over the years , he told me on many occasions of his first day in business at Wilton when a young man . |
| 12 | With one of those insights which showed a mind much subtler than that of many of his contemporaries , he had drawn an analogy between logical positivism and surrealism ; but he told me on this occasion that he had once asked A.J. Ayer , as he then was , what political beliefs were compatible with logical positivism : to which the reply had been , not altogether to his surprise , that they would be decidedly left-wing . |
| 13 | and then we started speaking to this chap and say we were looking for this place where the erm , they sell all this food and so on , what 's the name of the place , he said oh he says it 's finished , so he said you know where the er , we said er where 's somewhere good you know to , to go and have a nice sleep , and he told us about that place up the mountain where we went , where we all went the last time |
| 14 | Does he recall that it is exactly a year since he told us in this House , ’ Our policies are working ’ ? |
| 15 | He messed us about this weekend did n't he ? |
| 16 | He ate it with some biscuits , getting it down fast , his face close to the plate , his fork-hand hooking round to beat illness to the punch . |
| 17 | He studied her for several seconds , as if baffled . |
| 18 | He studied it for some time and then said : ‘ That 's bad , I 'm afraid . |
| 19 | It seemed odd that he loathed her with such intensity and yet had made a pass at her . |
| 20 | He fetched it without another word and watched her while she folded sheets of newspaper into firelighters in the thrifty way Gran had taught her . |
| 21 | He returned it with this comment : ‘ I have never been to a Wesleyan school nor been at the bottom of my form ! ' |
| 22 | Nervously reading from a statement , she said : ‘ He kissed me on both cheeks and placed his hand on my waist . |
| 23 | ‘ You 're getting my postcards , are n't you ? ’ he asked as he kissed her on both cheeks . |
| 24 | He tied him to some trolleys ! |
| 25 | Looking back on the decision a few years later , he interpreted it in these terms : " What I wanted was some counterweight to my changeable and restless inclinations , a science that could be pursued with cool impartiality , with cold logic , with regular work , without its results touching me at all deeply . " |
| 26 | Former model Carol Lawson , 42 , from Park Gate , Hants , refused to hang up on her relationship with neighbour Michael Hughes after he dumped her for another woman . |
| 27 | He repeated it with some commentary in an issue of the Times Educational Supplement . |
| 28 | He called them by this name because , he said , they went ‘ floppy ’ when you shot them . |
| 29 | He watched her for several seconds before the casual motion of a hand raised to the back of her neck and run up through her long hair identified the silhouette as Judith . |
| 30 | His skill at hunting living prey increased each day until he could stoop on a hare from half a mile away , judging its path and speeding his attack so that he hit it with such force that it was dead before his talons fully closed on it . |