Example sentences of "[vb past] he one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I diffidently approached him one afternoon , he was , as usual , mooning over a photograph of the troublesome Diedre , whom we all knew from the pictures he constantly thrust under our noses to be extremely good-looking , and whom we suspected of being a bit of a girl on the quiet . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm to be on the committee of the Society for the Relief of Distressed Widows , ’ she told him one day . |
| 3 | ‘ In fact he was very put out because Martinez simply told him one day at the end of last year that the agency had a new client but he , Martinez , was going to handle him personally and Ed Grainger did n't need to bother about him . |
| 4 | ‘ … and that is the greatest danger , according to Minch , ’ Kraal told him one day , concluding a brief account of what life in the Cages was like . |
| 5 | Even told him one day , ‘ Let's go travelling , escape from our lush paradise |
| 6 | Fear slowed his thoughts , and grudgingly granted him one consolation : at this speed they must come out at the bottom a damn sight faster than they went through at the top . |
| 7 | I was flying as Deputy Group Commander , and followed him one minute later . |
| 8 | I took , yeah , he , I got him one couple of years ago . |
| 9 | Marion met him one night when he called to see her father on a matter appertaining to the permanent way adjacent to the signal box . |
| 10 | When she met him one day in the forest , Narcissus said to her : ‘ I suppose you are yet another of these women who find me so very attractive . ’ |
| 11 | I met him one spring day thirty years ago in the beautiful Kentish countryside where he lived . |
| 12 | ‘ What are your favourite flowers , Ben ? ’ she asked him one day . |
| 13 | I tried I saw him one day on , I crept up in my and I took it out of the window and all I 've got is the . |
| 14 | We saw him one week and he looked like blooming Julian Caesar |
| 15 | I bought him one Christmas years and oh hey , we were just married and I ordered him an extending ladder from the Co-op |
| 16 | ‘ Well , say I then took Fiona off him and maybe I told him to go find himself another filly and the next thing was he got a pincer-hold on my ear and was bopping me one on the nose and there I was bleeding fit to fill the Frenchy furrows so naturally I gave him one back . ’ |
| 17 | " Oh , I gave him one back . " |
| 18 | Now he worked in offices of the Gas Board , and was studying accountancy , mostly at night , though the Board gave him one day off each week to attend classes . |
| 19 | The Woman gave him one look and then switched off the light and Doyle settled himself in the chair and sat silently in the shadows . |
| 20 | ‘ Mr Clare , you have sent me my favourite cows ! ’ she accused him one morning , blushing . |
| 21 | Yeah I left him one day , we went round to the pub I said do n't open that door there 's a match on fucking Ivy gets a phone call all the windows were put fucking in |
| 22 | That only perhaps left him one alternative — an ultimate alternative which no-one , not even Carnelian , could reasonably expect him to invoke , let alone soon … |