Example sentences of "[vb past] he [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In that same year he married his cousin Helen , daughter of John and Joanna Smyth , and between 1797 and 1805 she bore him six daughters and two sons . |
| 2 | She bore him eight sons ( of whom four died in infancy ) and nine daughters . |
| 3 | She bore him two daughters and was buried 13 June 1691 , five days after her husband . |
| 4 | Betty bore him two daughters . |
| 5 | He was married in 1873 to a hearing lady who bore him five children , one of whom died in infancy , and died in December 1890 after a lingering , incurable illness . |
| 6 | He was twice married , first in the 1820s to Eleanor Downing ( or Downie ) of Cumberland , who bore him four sons but died c .1834 , and second , to a widow , originally Anne Poole of Newcastle upon Tyne , sister of Henry Bolckow 's first wife . |
| 7 | She was a lady of unearthly beauty who married a Count of Anjou and bore him four children . |
| 8 | On the death of his third wife , Charles lived with no less than three concubines who bore him numerous children . |
| 9 | He further conquered her by ensuring she fell in love with him , and she bore him three sons . |
| 10 | As the Lent term progressed , besides his letters to Helen and Harry ( containing verses , some of which survive ) and his quick recovery from his failure to gain an entrance scholarship to Merton , he had renewed an acquaintance with MacAlister — an old Pauline friend — who visited him each Sunday . |
| 11 | She visited him that day . |
| 12 | She visited him two days later , just after he had cut his thumb on the mouse-trap and was bleeding into the sink . |
| 13 | Through a literary agent I had in New York I was able to help Sir Charles arrange the publication of that last book in America and I visited him many times , to hear him talk . |
| 14 | At first his wife never left him , since the doctors had told her that it was vital that he should find her there when he came out of his coma , and then when the immediate danger had passed she visited him three times a day and gave him his meals . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm staying , ’ he told me when I visited him last July . |
| 16 | The defending lawyer told magistrate Terence Maher that Long , 48 , turned to the bottle after his wife divorced him three years ago . |
| 17 | I drew him this morning . |
| 18 | He drew him another map and watched Blunset wander off into the darkness . |
| 19 | Yeah I seen him last night but not to talk to . |
| 20 | The girl who found him that day by the lake was sent by destiny , by fate , the atheists ' substitute for God . |
| 21 | Samuel Pepys [ q.v. ] found him good company . |
| 22 | At 11.30 on saturday night ward staff discovered he was missing — they began a search and found him fifteen minutes later . |
| 23 | We found him thirty levels down , bound and drugged . ’ |
| 24 | " One of the neighbours found him this morning — luckily someone loyal to the cause . |
| 25 | Sunil found him ten minutes ago . |
| 26 | She found him another job and is paying for a private nurse . |
| 27 | I was happy that he was being made to go to the hospital to have his ankle set in plaster , and because I found him very simpatico I was determined to go and see him there . |
| 28 | ‘ It must have been in the forest — ’ Joan said dreamily ‘ — because that is where they found him next day . |
| 29 | Instead his owner , 18-year-old Helen Woodruff from Walcot in Swindon , ignored advice to have him treated , and when the RSPCA found him 6 weeks later the wound was so swollen that Capri was in agony . |
| 30 | Yeah I told Michael , I phoned him this morning |