Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 His last owner found he suffered from many anxiety-induced health problems including cribbing , psychosomatic skin conditions , and chronic colic ; and also behavioural problems including tongue over the bit , reluctance to eat , fear of being in a large yard or paddock , inability to walk , trot , or canter properly , and sheer terror if he thought he had done something wrong !
2 ‘ Cold wind getting up , ’ commented the landlord , as he placed he mugs of amber liquid on the bar .
3 A few years before he died he posed for this effigy , placing the completed picture in his room , adjacent to his bed , as a memento mori .
4 He was unhappy but he felt he had at last sorted his life out .
5 Sometimes , if they knew he behaved in that way , people would be unwilling to talk about him at all — for fear they would embarrass themselves by saying something sympathetic about a man they knew could just as easily assassinate their characters .
6 I did n't much like them , but I realized he played with some mastery .
7 And what did he mean by that last sentence ?
8 What exactly did he mean by that ?
9 What did he mean by that ?
10 Now what exactly did he mean by that remark ?
11 What did he mean by that sombre ‘ quite ’ ?
12 What on earth did he mean by that ?
13 If the Home Secretary meant what he said about increasing the status of asylum seekers and respect for them , why in the debate on the subject at the Tory party conference did he talk about 7 million Russians waiting to move west , when he knew that last year 117
14 Did he score off that ?
15 What did he do for these other people and do they actually miss him more than they do themselves ?
16 What on earth did he want with two watches ?
17 So how much profit did he make on that ?
18 Er , the meaning of your dreams revealed , you know , you see this kind of , yeah , now why did he disapprove of that kind of analysis ?
19 What did he think of those who thought he was passed it .
20 ‘ What reason did he give for that ? ’
21 How did he feel about that ? ’
22 ‘ And why did he go like that ? ’
23 Did he hope by that means to get at some truth he thought she was concealing ?
24 Did he succeed in either aim ? ’
25 Did he benefit from that band in terms of technique and ability ?
26 His health was excellent ; only for the last four years of his life did he suffer from intermittent fever .
27 And did he know about all this ?
28 What did he know about this man , Myles Burke ?
29 And how many slaves did he sell in Spanish Town ? ’
30 What grand ideas did he have for that ?
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