Example sentences of "[verb] he [verb] [indef pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says he realised something terrible was going to happen , but he never thought that they would actually set light to the car . |
| 2 | Denny says he wanted something gold for |
| 3 | Nigel believed she would assume he had something incurable with a shade of film glamour to it — leukaemia , perhaps . |
| 4 | you know that , that you know he saw something valuable and wanted to preserve presumably so |
| 5 | And he ended the conversation mysteriously , saying he had something important to tell me too . |
| 6 | He refused , saying he wanted nothing more to do with her . |
| 7 | Perhaps they decided he had nothing useful to say — ; which is n't far from the truth . |
| 8 | I knew he had something more than Liza and me because we 'd seen him when he had his bath and when he lay in bed in his short shirt . |
| 9 | Yeah , I thought he had something strange about him this morning . |
| 10 | Richard avoided looking at her , for fear she should think he meant anything particular by it . |
| 11 | John insists he did nothing wrong — but a solicitor says taking the law into your own hands can be risky . |
| 12 | So had he done something wrong ? |
| 13 | Had he done something wrong ? |
| 14 | Had he done anything disgraceful ? |
| 15 | Hackney racing manager Michael Marks , who said he found nothing wrong with the running of the race , will remember Black Thursday for other reasons . |
| 16 | Only in John 's Gospel does he make one curious and profoundly interesting statement . |
| 17 | But in the legal sense she supposed he did nothing worse than truant from school . |
| 18 | That Major still backs Mellor and believes he did nothing untoward arouses suspicions that he does n't know the difference between right and wrong . |