Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As Rick was re-baiting , the clip on his other rod pulled and on checking the line he found he had another take . |
| 2 | Sadly he declined , saying in a charmingly self-deprecatory way that he doubted he had any views worth hearing . |
| 3 | He noticed she needed two hands to lift the silver pot . |
| 4 | Secretary of State Sir Patrick Mayhew said the RUC still had his full support and he believed they pursued all killers with equal determination . |
| 5 | He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend . |
| 6 | He claimed she had salted money away in Brazil , where she fled briefly before returning to be arrested , using Liberian companies and bank accounts in Monaco and Luxemburg . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I mean he worked hard , he worked he worked six nights a week . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He thought he made some kind of strangled gasp ; he knew his eyes would have expressed his emotions . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Asked once what he would do if he knew he had six months to live , he replied : ‘ I 'd type faster . ’ |
| 15 | Hanfmann describes ‘ a rather arrogant colleague ’ who ‘ told me that he knew I wrote good case histories , but had not expected me to be so good at theory ’ ( 1983 : 147 ) . |
| 16 | We loved it and he knew it gave great pleasure to the audience . |
| 17 | Everywhere he went he smelled fresh blood , and was exhilarated . |
| 18 | He very rarely helped round the house , because he felt we had different jobs . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He felt he needed professional help , and entered into analysis that would continue for many years to come . |
| 21 | He felt he needed more brandy , but the glass was nearly empty and the bottle was in the kitchen . |
| 22 | Well , yes , I mean I can remember having a friend in Oxford who was schizophrenic and to be quite frank he needed to be certified and we could not get him to go to the doctors , and when he did he told sufficient stories that the doctor home with eye drops because he was seeing things . |
| 23 | last year 's individual with us he had I think he had he had five A levels of which four were grade A and one was greed B grade B. |
| 24 | He said she wrote better letters than any woman he knew — ‘ only it is a different letter each time you read it . ’ |
| 25 | Yeah , he said I got a thousand pound well I 'll ring around , he said I got a thousand o off my , I saved a thousand pounds on my roof he said I thought bloody hell , how much cost costing him ! |
| 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 said I said one thing he 's more rebellious . |
| 28 | He says er , yeah he said I did some onion , and then , I got some of them , you know |
| 29 | He said I remembered last night he said if I was in bed I was gon na get wet . |
| 30 | He said you gave marvellous picnics — and you look as if you would ! ’ |