Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly he tried to make some sexual advances . |
| 2 | He had memories of Vienna before the 1939 war , and liked people who took care over such things as coffee — proper , expensive coffee — as he tried to himself , however much he decided to ignore most of the facts of being poor . |
| 3 | Mind you it seemed that they had a test at school last week and he was n't terribly happy with it , he said he could n't understand it , he tried to explain to me what it was , but erm , it 's not , not easy , but Ga Gavin said erm , he said they 'd had a test and he said it took him time to get into it but once he got into it , you know , he did alright in it , I think he said how many he got , he did n't seem to do too badly , but he said Alex did n't really do anything and what he did do he thought was wrong so he did n't hand it in , he said and in actual fact what he had done was right , so I do n't know , I told , I told Alex to go and see , you know , and ask about it and sort of erm , apparently he did do that so at least he 'll know , but erm , it 's strange really because normally Alex |
| 4 | Hitherto he had felt such a step to be premature , and one that might dangerously provoke the USSR . |
| 5 | If only he had paid more attention when he had had the chance . |
| 6 | Only that perhaps he had manufactured some reason so that she would be able to overcome her own personal fears of being alone with him ; given her an excuse to accept his invitation to re-enter the apartment where he 'd previously abused her both physically and verbally . |
| 7 | Perhaps he 'd wanted some fresh air . |
| 8 | Perhaps he wanted to feel this moral force of a man was really no better , no finer than him . |
| 9 | He had expected the sack at the time , but strangely enough he had had more than his share of work from that day on . |
| 10 | So he said get some money up together mum . |
| 11 | So he had heard those monumentally stupid words . |
| 12 | So he determined to take that too . |
| 13 | Well he thought your dad was buying that mould from Jim so he did say that , he , he 'd lent him that book on how to actually build them , but that 's |
| 14 | So he decided to add another fifteen knots to the approach speed and give it a go . |
| 15 | So he tried to placate this man and he was n't going to be placated . |
| 16 | Mechanically he had taken each drink offered without thinking , for the simple reason that he had spent the entire journey staring out of the cabin window into the infinity of space . |
| 17 | It was irritating how easily he seemed to do several things at once . |
| 18 | Twice he had seriously wounded men in duels , and finally he had run another junior officer through in a tavern brawl . |
| 19 | Last night as always he had lost most of his week 's earnings in the organised card game down at his bar . |
| 20 | THE ARCHBISHOP of Canterbury admitted yesterday he had made many mistakes during his two years in office . |
| 21 | No , just cli , and yesterday he 'd got this marvellous cleaner he uses . |
| 22 | He was not supposed to know whether the dealer was buying or selling on his client 's behalf , but nonetheless he attempted to guess this from the runner 's facial expression and comments . |
| 23 | Later he came to rationalise that , seeing it as part of a family pattern . |
| 24 | The first foreign office librarian had been appointed in 1800 : when he retired a decade later he had organised this mass of papers into a systematic and usable collection . |
| 25 | Now he 'd lost that sense of fitting the rubrics which his kin and his province drew up for the proper conduct of a man like himself . |
| 26 | By now he had lost another ship . |
| 27 | Now he wanted to promote this triple alliance : he told Attlee , ‘ The iron appears to me to be hot . |
| 28 | Today he 'd left that hotel . |
| 29 | Well he did have some , but he we , but there were other people that got caught . |
| 30 | Well he started to buy some bloody peppermints erm them bar peppermints erm then he bought hole in the wall , them there round ones . |