Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [vb past] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said our flight had been delayed and he 'd spent the time in the bar , and then added , rather unconvincingly , that some woman had insisted on ‘ plying Phaeton with liquor ’ as he put it , but there was a hollowness in the way he said it , and I do n't think either Gill or I believed him for a moment . |
| 2 | I did n't know him very well and I despised him for being well behaved and creeping around telling stories about me . |
| 3 | ‘ He came round the desks and I kicked him in the back of his legs to get him to the floor and I used my shirt to put out the flames and Hazel gave him first aid . ’ |
| 4 | and I tried all weekend trying to get only there from five to seven , and I got him after five o'clock on Tuesday |
| 5 | Malleson carried my things down to the other block under his greatcoat and I followed him down the path about twenty yards behind . |
| 6 | I got him into the factory and from there we got the ambulance and … and I took him to the Royal Victoria Infirmary . ’ |
| 7 | P. E. A man dropped dead in front of me on the street and I took him to the mortuary and I got into trouble over it because I did n't search the body properly . |
| 8 | This was going on for a couple of days , so I was getting worried and I took him to the prison doctor and he says , ‘ It might be with you breastfeeding , try him on the bottle . ’ |
| 9 | After interviewing Susannah ( this was back in 1980 on the set of The Awakening ) , I had the good fortune to meet and interview John Huston and I challenged him on Susannah 's story . |
| 10 | And I brought him to terms . |
| 11 | He is now 7″ long , and I transferred him to a 4ft tank . |
| 12 | Come and clean my windows and I owed him from the last time . |
| 13 | So I said OK , and I gave him a real fancy one — it was like topiary , and I left him with a rude word on the back of his head . |
| 14 | ‘ My son was 18 when I moved down here and I left him with grandparents . |
| 15 | I said that he could try to put the cube together and I left him with the pieces while I went to fetch some paper . |
| 16 | We met in the old Majestic Hotel , where I was staying , and I asked him about his former student in Berlin . |
| 17 | ‘ I showed him my brooch — the one you gave me for my birthday — and I asked him about his birthday . |
| 18 | And I asked him about that particular morning 's exercise with the coastguard helicopter . |
| 19 | Now , I do n't , the story I quoted was I , I interviewed Lord Marshall on the local radio thing many years ago , and I asked him about nuclear fusion . |
| 20 | And I told him about it , and he said oh yes , the pilot light has gone out and he relit it . |
| 21 | and I told him about the , him taking the wagon off me , he said that 's bloody stupid that cos Nick used to do my run , work it out for me |
| 22 | That 's it yeah , and erm I was erm Wally and Gordon and he thinks there 's another couple you see , so I said well , you know , and I told him about the heater you see and he know , I said when people sitting on their backsides in committee making decisions , I said , you know , I said it just makes me bloody well annoyed , he said I know he said they do n't , they , they make the decisions and , but they do n't do the nitty gritty , they you know |
| 23 | Chairman , ye , yes it is a recurring theme of the district auditor an , and I told him in the past , that erm , where this council has a policy that they would support village schools and keep them open wherever possible , erm , that that , that , that decision had been discussed , and er , I , I have to remind that I did remind the district auditor that he does n't have to get elected every four years , as some of us do , and er , those in rural areas know very well that that is the way not to get elected , to be talking about shutting village schools . |
| 24 | I lived with my husband for er , three and a half years , and I knew him for a good number of years before then , so we made a joint decision after that period of time that we were , wanted to commit ourselves |
| 25 | K has literally just rung over the moon that I had fixed this as her mother is very fond of David and has known him for years — and it is fitting that widow of first Prof of CEGS ( as above ) be included — her dad built up the department enormously and I knew him through European seminars etc via Law Society with and others including who is a Heriot Row neighbour . |
| 26 | I did not think of following him , my feet seemed rooted to the sandy path and I saw him through a mist of tears as he appeared to melt through the door , which closed behind him . |
| 27 | And I saw him in a month , and he took the bandage off and me arm flopped of course . |
| 28 | I had what I refer to as the Flower Gentleman come to call on me — I 'm terrible at remembering names — and I liked him at once . |
| 29 | One evening , perched in his landing window , he shot towards my wife with an air rifle and I reported him to the police . |
| 30 | You know , Pete and I encouraged him like anything in his writing . |