Example sentences of "[verb] he [vb past] [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I did n't know he 'd gone anywhere ! ’ |
| 2 | I expect he hoped to have as little as possible to do with her , but when she made a dead set at him , as she did at all young married men , that was no longer possible . |
| 3 | Shildon closed in on them and mentioned he had arrived late because Wickham had wanted to question him . |
| 4 | She knew Eddie 's gambling had had disastrous consequences for her family , but it had been a terrible shock to discover he had taken so much from his best friend as well . |
| 5 | When he jumped down some twenty minutes later , I found he had chewed away a large portion of my cashmere sweater . |
| 6 | If Stone believed he had slipped quietly away to the phone box , he had underestimated — or forgotten — the pursuit abilities of CI5 . |
| 7 | But , in Briggs words , ‘ there is no reason in principle why one can not have the best of both worlds ’ , he believed he had found just that in Sanskrit — a bridge between natural and artificial languages . |
| 8 | And each time Dexter believed he had come closer to Blanche , understood her better , and liked her more . |
| 9 | Had to wait for James , I had n't noticed he 'd gone past |
| 10 | When he judged he had gone far enough he crept cautiously out to where the trees were more sparse . |
| 11 | The equally obvious fact that she had clearly felt he 'd married well beneath him — and into a family of which she had already disapproved — was something that Laura had n't known how to deal with . |
| 12 | The young Southampton prospect did accumulate a 5–2 lead in the second set , but tentative returns enabled the 25 year old Swede to claim five consecutive games , robbing Wilkinson of the Masters singles title he had worked so diligently for . |
| 13 | The noise from the shore was much greater : a familiar hiss and booming he had heard often before with a big tide on the make , but muffled now because of the deafening sound of the wind . |
| 14 | Last year , it seemed he had matured enough to fulfil himself but a cruel succession of injuries denied him . |
| 15 | When he came he had to pull away quickly so as not to spill a drop of his bodily fluids , like the instructions on the box of condoms said . |
| 16 | He might have thought he had said too much on Friday , buying the umbrella specially and walking arm in arm with her , and be afraid she would think he had meant more than he had . |
| 17 | A secretary in the business section confirmed he had left long before Rain did . |
| 18 | A later test showed he had drunk almost twice the legal limit . |
| 19 | He wanted badly to creep into her arms and be told he had done marvellously well , that she had put on her red dress and her new pumps specially for him , for his seduction . |
| 20 | He reckoned he had done well to get away with two cups of tea and forty minutes of reminiscence before an opening arose to thrust in a question . |
| 21 | The week before he died , he reckoned he had raised over $100,000 in his lifetime . |
| 22 | It 's a little complicated what he says , and I do n't follow it all , but I know he said carry straight on down this street , so I thank him and go off . |
| 23 | He had retired he 'd retired about ten years . |
| 24 | ‘ I heard he 'd made over half a million dollars , ’ said Lowe . |
| 25 | He then missed a sitter during a subsequent defeat at Ibrox that probably made him wish he 'd gone AWOL before that match , too . |
| 26 | If — when — he decided he had waited long enough , she was far from certain what her response would be . |
| 27 | But it was a role he very nearly did n't get when the film 's backers decided he had become too difficult to handle . |
| 28 | In mitigation Ronald Coia said Mr Siddle had been at his son 's home but decided he had to get away from the festivities . |
| 29 | It was feared he 'd gone overboard and air and sea search was launched . |
| 30 | Hearing the pet name he had used so seldom nearly caved her in completely , but she looked up at him with a bright smile . |