Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [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 | He goes none of those northeners ! |
| 4 | When I next saw the King , he asked me about this experience . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He read it with less pleasure … |
| 8 | Already under a probation order for attacking a songwriter the previous year , he found himself on another assault charge . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | As a general rule Green in his Guide recommends the skies be a quarter blue and three quarters grey , and he holds himself to this idea most strictly . |
| 11 | He helped himself to another brandy and waved the bottle before Herr Nordern 's eyes . |
| 12 | The Brigadier seemed to be thinking furiously as he helped himself to another glass of port . |
| 13 | He left the sentence hanging as he helped himself to more rum . |
| 14 | He re-emphasised it on another occasion : ‘ I identify with this notion … |
| 15 | ‘ So what I 'm working up to telling you is that when he got silly he let anyone in that house . |
| 16 | He let someone into that church , a thief , another derelict , a psychopath , and that person killed him . |
| 17 | As you get older , I think you learn that an afternoon playing with your daughter ( he has one by each marriage ) , or three hours reading , feeds the soul in a more real way than being on TV . ’ |
| 18 | Everybody at his house for lunch is a corporate travel buyer , he has lots of these lunches . |
| 19 | He covers it with both hands . |
| 20 | He lifted it with both hands to take a bite , glancing wistfully at his cigarette in the ashtray . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He told me about this condition quite openly , including the impulse to throw himself over cliffs etc . |
| 23 | Over the years , he told me on many occasions of his first day in business at Wilton when a young man . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 |
| 26 | Does he recall that it is exactly a year since he told us in this House , ’ Our policies are working ’ ? |
| 27 | erm And he describes them in these terms because of course this is how he sees them from different angles while rounding a series of bends on the road , so that in fact he describes the movement which his senses perceive , not the solid immobility to which his intellect testifies . |
| 28 | He messed us about this weekend did n't he ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He studied her for several seconds , as if baffled . |