Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Around the huts he had avoided all contact with her and although they stood side by side listening to her husband , he did nothing to acknowledge her existence . |
| 2 | I 've proved that , yes — ’ in the words he 'd used that very morning ‘ — even Bluebeard has to take time off . |
| 3 | After three months he had written most of this work and was well enough to return to his beloved Kidderminster . |
| 4 | After a few months he had borrowed enough money to set up a drug store in Sydney . |
| 5 | ‘ He has told friends for months he wanted to spend more time with his family . ’ |
| 6 | Music hall had shown Eliot that the chorus of the Greek drama in whose primitive origins he had exhibited such interest , could still work on the modern stage . |
| 7 | By the frequency of his visits he came to know most of the artists and was fond of addressing them in a loud voice by their first names as they came out of the studio . |
| 8 | Within a few days he had received some opinions on it which he transmitted to Pons immediately . |
| 9 | His largest fault , perhaps , and one natural to a good hater , was a congenital inability to accept that mortal creatures hold incompatible views and behave in ways incompatible with their views , so that to the end of his days he declined to accept any difference between holding a speculative opinion that is evil and being bad . |
| 10 | In the past two weeks he had had enough of being outgoing , talking to strangers , spending time money and love of a sort . |
| 11 | The seventy five year old bachelor had finally got his girl at the second time of asking years He 'd waited half a century for this kiss with his new bride Rose , and he still could n't believe his luck . |
| 12 | He flattered himself that he was in some small part responsible for such blissful bizarrities , given that over the years he 'd brought all manner of influences through from the Succulent Rock . |
| 13 | For ten years he had lived this lonely life , his heart full of sadness and his head full of dark dreams . |
| 14 | For two years he needed massage several times a day and still goes for regular check-ups at hospital . |
| 15 | By all the Gods he had showed those peasant scum . |
| 16 | He was always muttering to himself about all the experiments he had to do that week . |
| 17 | He tried to realign retrospectively things he had written many years before , for what at the time had been entirely adequate reasons . |
| 18 | Like his predecessors he failed to make any headway . |
| 19 | a very able man in business matters , but unfortunately lame ; he had to support himself on a crutch , in addition to which the dark glasses he wore to hide some defect in his eyes , did not improve his appearance ; altogether it always struck me that the prominence of position he seemed to claim was undesirable . |
| 20 | Earlier on in the same piece of writing , in the same letter to the Philippians he had said that for him to die was gain . |
| 21 | By adding this new term to the known equations he managed to describe all macroscopic electromagnetic phenomena . |
| 22 | ‘ It would be foolish to sell now , ’ said Syl judiciously , and I thought that apart from wanting young girls he wanted to inherit another big house , and I wondered how on earth I could be going to marry someone whom I detested so much . |
| 23 | Through receiving so many treatments for his own various ailments he had gained some experience which was a help to others . |
| 24 | In more peaceful times he had assisted many of the ladies of the cantonment in childbirth . |
| 25 | It was the first time in ages he 'd demonstrated any kind of protectiveness towards her and she could n't help warming to that . |
| 26 | MARTIN O'NEILL , the Wycombe Wanderers manager , emerged cheerfully to face the press , extolling the virtues of what had been , by his own admission , one of the most gruelling 90 minutes he had endured this season . |
| 27 | Now he checked with the policeman whose beat took him down Glenfair Road , the main thoroughfare into which Boundary Drive ran ; The list of car numbers he had noted that evening for one reason or another was unproductive . |
| 28 | Then he remembered the eager questioning eyes of the four women he had met that evening — it would hardly be suitable for them . |
| 29 | Unfortunately by the time he reached his conclusions he had forgotten both these things . |
| 30 | Ninety five year old William Wyatt from Didcot , in Oxfordshire remembered killings he 'd seen all those years ago . |