Example sentences of "[prep] [noun pl] [conj] he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But for reasons that he took to be his own error in transcription , anything that he pilfered straight from life never sounded convincing . |
| 2 | She saw more of England driving with him in his car , or walking through cities while he attended to business , then she ever had before . |
| 3 | In interviews , Gedge said he was fascinated by the downside of Best 's character ; the flaws in his make-up that led him to skip training session and stay in discotheques ( as they were then called ) for hours after he had officially opened them . |
| 4 | He was an exacting colleague , and college meetings lasted for hours as he reminisced about the past ; but it was his way of educating the fellows in the traditions of the college . |
| 5 | ‘ Well , ’ the man replied between gasps as he heaved at the oars , ‘ there is something I can tell you . ’ |
| 6 | He goes right thought for ages and he thought right what do I really need ? |
| 7 | He had to slice up dead rabbits and pick the heads off snails as he visited some of the top kitchens in the county . |
| 8 | Anyway Kerslake played for Spurs and he played shit . |
| 9 | Stevens was playing for Spurs when he became a victim of a Vinnie Jones tackle which eventually ended his career . |
| 10 | Stevens was playing for Spurs when he became a victim of a Vinnie Jones tackle which eventually ended his career and he said : ‘ If players are dragging matters through the courts it ca n't be good publicity for the game . |
| 11 | If Gould was disgusted by the commercial exploits of his fellow white men , he was compensated by the reverence for birds that he discovered among the Aborigines . |
| 12 | The 1895 visit to Swindon , in place of the summer term at St. Paul 's , repeats an earlier pattern in Edward 's life between schools before he won a scholarship to Battersea Grammar School and while his youngest brother Julian was born into the already over-crowded house at 61 Shelgate Road . |
| 13 | No I said erm I had a conversation with Gillian about reading , about little bits of reading and , I made the point that we 'd said last night about him barking at print , reading through words that he did n't know and not asking what they were and she said she 'd noticed that . |
| 14 | But there remained the problem which had been gnawing at his mind for months as he waited for his enemy to come home : how was he to get into the castle itself ? |
| 15 | Herr Nordern groped for words as he stared at the envelopes with Steinmark written across them . |
| 16 | Then there was no more need for words as he slid deep within her , conquering the unchartered territories of her body and of her soul with one powerful thrust . |
| 17 | It was lively as usual , the mishmash of pop music blaring through loudspeakers as he walked among the crowd , mostly young people on the look-out for instant fun and excitement in an otherwise dreary world . |
| 18 | A CALLER wished Frank Bough well on the air yesterday as he hosted a radio phone-in just two weeks after revelations that he had visited a ‘ Miss Whiplash ’ vice den . |
| 19 | Jean-Pierre Hocké , who had resigned as High Commissioner in October 1989 after allegations that he had misused money from a Danish/Swedish educational fund [ see p. 36989 ] , was in October 1990 cleared of the charges after a Danish government investigation . |
| 20 | Mr Rushdie said the fatwa , issued after allegations that he had blasphemed against Islam in his novel , The Satanic Verses , symbolised the worst of religious fanaticism . |
| 21 | Willie Carson will also resting easy after suggestions that he had been wrong to bring about the withdrawal of the red-hot favourite , Superoo , before the start of Ascot 's opening event on Saturday , having done a similar thing with the favourite , Red Paddy , before the Royal Hunt Cup . |
| 22 | The star , hailed a hero after reports that he piloted his crippled executive jet to safety , refused to confirm that he had been flying the plane . |
| 23 | A FORMER Portsmouth soccer player has been suspended from his teaching job after claims that he had sex with a teenage girl pupil 12 years ago . |
| 24 | Meanwhile , however , the head of the Ministry , Jusuf Karakushi , resigned on March 26 after accusations that he had failed to protect the Albanians properly . |
| 25 | He resigned from the Justice Ministry in November 1988 and from the Prime Minister 's Office in March 1989 after accusations that he received a US$1,300,000 " reward " from the Bank of Crete 's then chairman George Koskotas for his effecting the passage of legislation to shield the bank from investigation [ see pp. 36527 ; 36562 ] . |
| 26 | Had Kenneth Grahame known about seaplanes when he wrote Wind in the Willows that is what Toad would have said . |
| 27 | Parke B. , at p. 630 , concluded that the payment ‘ was not voluntary , because , in effect , the defendant told the plaintiff 's clerk , that if he did not pay for certificates when he wanted to make extracts , he should not be permitted to search . ’ |
| 28 | Kragan had the coffees waiting for Kaas when he arrived . |
| 29 | He had not expected Eleanor to beard his lodgings in Earls Court , especially as he had given Mrs Avery the same instructions about visitors as he had given Nurse Goodman . |
| 30 | She had talked about thresholds and he had given an authoritative paper on ‘ The Potent Castrato : the phallogocentric structuration of Balzac 's hermaphrodite hero/ines ’ . |