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 ? |