Example sentences of "[num] [num] he [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Waugh perceived a resemblance between the two books himself , and in his letter to Orwell on Nineteen Eighty-Four he reproached him in a jibe as potent as any he ever made to friend or enemy : ‘ Men who love a crucified God need never think of torture as all-powerful . ’ |
| 2 | And the chap sort of the head of social services or local government officer , he said well in the nineteen nineties he said it is still possible , if you want to keep your children away from school . |
| 3 | One seventy nine he put them up to . |
| 4 | Yeah one seventy nine he put them to , and then he put them up to one eighty two or summat and then they 've gone up to one eighty nine I think they are . |
| 5 | and they used to collect the rents from there er some of them and er up er he came home one day and he said erm , I 'm not going up there collecting again , as he er collected the bugs used to drop on his collecting pad I said , finish the job do n't go again , but anyway they persuaded the people to take the rents into the office you see instead of having to have a rent collector , but er it was horrible he , he worked for them twenty five years and then when he was sixty four he had his , a stroke , but he went back again after eight months and he completed his job for when , you know he stayed in the office , he was er him and erm started the rebate , well it was footwork the rebate system was worked out at the Town Hall , but they , the rent men had to carry it out you see and er he er work the system out and of course erm , when he was sixty five he finished , course he was lucky really , but then er he could get about fairly well , but after the years drew on you know his , his health deteriorated and er but he lived er he was sixty four and he was eighty five when he died but erm |
| 6 | Twenty nine thousand he reckons he sold that plot for . |
| 7 | He , he , well it was a council house when he moved in and he come to me what 'd be , ten , twelve years since he says , I 've chance to buy that house he says , they want fifteen thousand he says what do you think ? |