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Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	‘ He thinks he saw all sorts of things , including Terry Waite .
2	As Rick was re-baiting , the clip on his other rod pulled and on checking the line he found he had another take .
3	Sadly he declined , saying in a charmingly self-deprecatory way that he doubted he had any views worth hearing .
4	He says they caused considerable damage to property , hedgerows were burned out , buildings affected , farmers ' own equipment set on fire and their own crops .
5	He says they got some men in a van and tried to burn them .
6	He says he saw one person fall but he was n't hrut and it seems safe .
7	He says he saw one job but that 's already gone and that was last week .
8	He says he spent two weeks in hospital when he was helpless and that brought it all home to him .
9	He says he bought another Amiga .
10	he describes what happened that night and talks about how the memorial is important because he never went to the funerals ofhis colleagues .
11	he describes what happened that night and talks about how the memorial is important because he never went to the funerals ofhis colleagues .
12	He noticed she needed two hands to lift the silver pot .
13	Secretary of State Sir Patrick Mayhew said the RUC still had his full support and he believed they pursued all killers with equal determination .
14	He said that he believed he had lawful authority to ride the bike because he was repairing it for a friend .
15	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 .
16	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 .
17	He checks I got enough money to buy the string , and then I go off .
18	Twenty nine thousand he reckons he sold that plot for .
19	I mean he worked hard , he worked he worked six nights a week .
20	‘ 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 .
21	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 .
22	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 .
23	He thought he made some kind of strangled gasp ; he knew his eyes would have expressed his emotions .
24	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 .
25	Asked once what he would do if he knew he had six months to live , he replied : ‘ I 'd type faster . ’
26	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 ) .
27	We loved it and he knew it gave great pleasure to the audience .
28	Everywhere he went he smelled fresh blood , and was exhilarated .
29	He very rarely helped round the house , because he felt we had different jobs .
30	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 .