Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | No wonder he liked to joke that ‘ oil , Jews , and Germans ’ were ‘ Romania 's best exports ’ . |
| 2 | One morning he woke up to discover the entire ‘ ARCHITECTURE ’ section stacked so high around his desk he had to wait half the day before pupils managed to free him . |
| 3 | During the fever brought on by wounds , forced marches , wet and cold he had dreamed many odd and discomforting things , but never anything like this . |
| 4 | According to Pilkington , ‘ One child he examined had such a lacerated tongue he compared it to sago pudding . ’ |
| 5 | At the moment he seemed to find all of them constricting . |
| 6 | Yahweh ( Exodus 3:13–16 ) is the God actively present with his people — but the moment he chose to make this known as when they , as doomed slaves , needed to be redeemed . |
| 7 | There was something of importance he wished to say that would affect them all . |
| 8 | All the week the receipts had been unusually high , but this evening he expected to break all records . |
| 9 | Having doubts about this picture 's authenticity and surmising that it might be the same picture he had seen several years before , he again sought my opinion on the basis of a good photograph . |
| 10 | He was so close that Polly could feel his body warmth and smell the soap he had used that morning . |
| 11 | And as they came towards the end of the day he had to do some quick thinking to find out whether he 'd have to keep the men working right up to the last minute in order to get the stint , of three-quarter of an acre 's ploughing for each man , finished . |
| 12 | Jeremy Healy 's music was loud and passionate , and designer/stylist Judy Blame agreed that it was the only decent stuff he 'd heard all week , adding that French Djs are the worst on the planet and that there is virtually no point in clubbing in Paris until the situation is remedied . |
| 13 | She made a broth from the bones , using roots that flourished in the summer season , and after a while he had recouped some of his strength . |
| 14 | But after a while he began to accept that what I told him must be true . |
| 15 | And what would Gemma Dallam — Gemma Gage — think to that , she wondered , if she knew the price he had made another woman pay to recover her brown satin ? |
| 16 | By the end of the month he had re-established some contact with the main Front ; however , plans to reinforce the 2nd Shock were abruptly abandoned when Stalin was persuaded to disband the Volkhov Front entirely and place its troops under control of the Leningrad Front . |
| 17 | Temple denied that the policy he advocated posed any significant threat to the integrity of the British empire . |
| 18 | But Gerhard Cromme , management board chairman of Fried Krupp AG Hoesch-Krupp , told Der Spiegel magazine he hoped to avoid such a move . |
| 19 | That morning he had visited several estate agents , and his researches indicated that Number 29 might be worth as much as £80,000 . |
| 20 | We argued and discussed — and in the morning he had scrapped that idea and had several others to offer in its place . |
| 21 | She smiled , suddenly the woman he had met that first time , laughing and self-confident , all depths , all subtleties gone from her . |
| 22 | The same uneasy feeling he 'd experienced that morning returned , and he realized now why it came : of all the people of Dynmouth this boy in his adolescence was the single exception . |
| 23 | Delaney remembered the feeling he had had that Connors was holding something back . |
| 24 | Here she was , possessed of more than she had ever dreamed of , this house , its comforts and warmth , those servants whose lives were spent in caring for hers , friends such as the Chamberlins who had taken her to their hearts , this first , unforgettable Christmas with all its bounty and then — Michael Swinton , in that bleak and dreary place , with only drunken old Meg and silent Punch , his loneliness accentuated by the life he had known these last few months in London and in the great houses he had stayed in . |
| 25 | In the past he had settled several disputes between Victoria and Albert . |
| 26 | His heart seemed to leap inside him , at the sheer beauty of her now , and the realisation he had produced this change . |
| 27 | So he went back up onto the main road and very little further on , in fact , he in fact found a village and spent the night at the hostelry and he said to the man in the hostelry you know , he that he 'd been lost and that a a little bit back on the road he 'd seen this big house all alight and he had erm , you know , gone in the drive and tried to get get a room there but could n't make anybody hear and the erm the inn keeper said , no he said er you would n't make anyone hear there , he said and if you go back there tomorrow the house wo n't be there ! |
| 28 | In order to complete his case he had to challenge this deference to a patristic consensus — which he did by observing that the church fathers had taken the motion of the sun for granted because the alternative had not , in that era , been laid before them . |
| 29 | She shot a swift glance at Paul in case he decided to amend this statement , but he merely smiled quirkily and said , ‘ Exactly ! ’ |
| 30 | In some forgotten corner of the text he had found some vague pledge that no one else had noticed . |