Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The years of his longest sentence , from 1979 to 1983 ( incurred for setting up , in admiring imitation of the Polish KOR , a Czech Committee to Defend the Unjustly Prosecuted ) were punctuated by other , sometimes painfully absurd episodes : for example the day the Interior Ministry 's men relented sufficiently to allow him to attend his father 's funeral , and then inadvertently let him be surrounded by a tight scrum of friends who brought him up to date with all the latest political news . |
| 2 | But what he lacked in build he made up for in speed and skill , nipping in and out of solid defences with astounding ease . |
| 3 | She flushed and tried not to let him rile her . |
| 4 | He swung his leg over the saddle , rocked the bike off its stand and balanced it with his legs while she put on the helmet , tugged on the huge gloves and tried not to let him know she was panicking . |
| 5 | A month later he phoned home to say he had joined the Croatian Army in Yugoslavia . |
| 6 | Shortly afterwards he left the licensed dealer which then tried unsuccessfully to get him sacked from the stockbroker he had persuaded to give him a job . |
| 7 | The people drew back to let him pass . |
| 8 | His teacher , Miss Poole , tried hard to get him to read . |
| 9 | Aware that Fred was waiting , hoping to change her mind , she tried again to make him see it her way . |
| 10 | She made for the new extension , hoping she had imagined that speculative look in her young assistant 's eye , and feeling that she 'd better let him think the Palmer & Pearson file had dropped on her desk while he was absent on Friday . |
| 11 | Looking round , he saw that the young accomplice had retrieved the knife and was pointing it at him like a gun , stammering : ‘ You 'd better let him go , d' you hear ? ’ |
| 12 | He 'd say that he 'd suddenly remembered he had to go to the theatre with his family , or to a friend 's engagement party . |
| 13 | Zen sat down on the large sofa which occupied most of one wall , thinking about that last card which he 'd fondly thought he had up his sleeve . |
| 14 | During the night after The Best Years of Our Lives scooped the Oscars , she came downstairs to find him sitting alone , with an award in each hand , sobbing . |
| 15 | He 'd just remembered he had a couple of toffees in his oilskin coat pocket . |
| 16 | For a moment she could n't think what he meant , then she remembered with dismay that she 'd already asked him to join her and Elaine and a few of the island friends they 'd made on the new power-boat Stephen had treated them to as the hotel neared completion . |
| 17 | KNIFEMEN forced a man from his car at traffic lights in California , made him strip and drove off leaving him standing in his socks . |
| 18 | It was only towards herself that she 'd ever seen him act meanly . |
| 19 | At the US Open at Shinnecock Hills he played the best I 'd ever seen him play — probably even better than he was going to in the British Open . |
| 20 | He walked down the hill in Haworth with a bag of his best paintings on his back , and everyone in the village came out to see him go . |
| 21 | She 'd even told him to take La Tour Monchauzet and Antoinette with it , she recalled , wincing . |
| 22 | She 'd half expected him to barge past her , just like that other time , and she 'd resolved to set about him with her fists if he tried . |
| 23 | That was a bit embarrassing — I 'd never seen him blush before — so I decided to have a joke . |
| 24 | Staring up at him , her stomach in knots , she thought she 'd never seen him look so frighteningly distant and patrician … |
| 25 | I asked him once why I 'd never seen him mentioned in any of the endless stuff about his movement , and he said he thought some of them had to stay anonymous . |
| 26 | I was petrified ; I 'd never seen him like this . |
| 27 | I 'd never seen him like that . |
| 28 | He 'd never realised he had become so attached to Lizzie and his own pain was unbearable . |
| 29 | Sam was glad that he 'd never invited him to share Evelyn 's secrets . |
| 30 | I 'd never felt he cared for me but at last we sat and talked . |