Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he drew he put aside all other considerations and reached for the truth . |
| 2 | He maintained he had never received replies to letters or acknowledgement of seeds but the dispatch of the eighth edition of the Dictionary ( April 1768 ) awaited direction and then , with an unusually personal note , he excuses himself , ‘ … having had the misfortune to dislocate the ankelbone of my leg above a year and a half since gone … confinement and want of usual exercise has brought many maladies upon me , but I am in hope of proper remedies to prolong life a little longer . ’ |
| 3 | When we moved he went AWOL and had to be recaptured and forcibly repatriated . |
| 4 | He moved around the table to her and as he moved he spoke slowly and meaningfully . |
| 5 | The blood which flowed in his veins meant that , as well as expressing his emotions with the dramatic use of his hands , Vitor d'Arcos was a proud man — and she doubted he had ever begged anyone for anything in his entire life . |
| 6 | Some time later found he had only one shoe on . |
| 7 | However , when he neared the blank concrete wall , he saw an opening to his right and found he had merely reached a ninety degree turn , round which the tunnel still stretched as far as his torch beam could reach . |
| 8 | He said the case against him had been adjourned after he said he believed he owed less than £12 . |
| 9 | In 1961 Treloar 's father bought neighbouring land , and believed he had also bought this waste land . |
| 10 | He added he had only table knives in his kitchen . |
| 11 | In the split second he woke he felt wonderfully light and at ease , comfortable in his skin , all his limbs absolutely relaxed in the right order and oh so comfortable where they were . |
| 12 | After a while Marcus came to his window and it seemed he stared straight into my eyes . |
| 13 | It seemed he 'd only half heard her . |
| 14 | It seemed he had just lost the ferrule of his stick . |
| 15 | It seemed he had just given up and was letting her go graciously and tenderly . |
| 16 | Her father was a dealer in second-hand cars and it seemed he did pretty well at it . |
| 17 | ‘ I imagined he 'd never seen her ! ’ |
| 18 | She imagined he looked almost relieved and she felt the same . |
| 19 | He wore a sailor 's short sword by his side , and I noticed he had only three fingers on his left hand . |
| 20 | Watching him refill her glass , she noticed he had unusually long fingernails for a man . |
| 21 | I noticed he 'd soon dropped the ‘ sir ’ as well . |
| 22 | Although he preferred to train dancers from the age of nine , by the time the pantomime season came he had so many to cast he had to accept adults and teach them after they had finished a day 's work . |
| 23 | Without implying that Lanfranc was an enemy of the monks of the cathedral church , the whole drift of the pope 's account of the incident suggests that the request for a confirmation of the monastic status of the cathedral had come from someone other than Lanfranc : from whom the request came he left entirely unclear . |
| 24 | I assumed he 'd just picked you for the resemblance . ’ |
| 25 | CW intimated he wishes eventually to move to bar-coding of Library stock to facilitate loans , and the same technology will suffice for both Horticultural and Library purposes . |
| 26 | As the prayer went on he showed he had already mastered the priestly mumble . |
| 27 | ‘ She 's not here , ’ he told her with a mocking ring to his tone which showed he knew exactly what she was thinking . |
| 28 | He welcomed the Truman Doctrine and claimed he had frequently predicted the development to Hodge : |
| 29 | Mr Mackie claimed he had later progressed to heroin and that Murray had again injected the drug to him . |
| 30 | The contents of Steinitz 's attics which the dealer claimed he had never had time to inspect comprising all manner of junk and broken pieces of furniture , occupied the weekend of 23–24 May and visibly left Tajan wishing he had never bothered . |