Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she bathed him , soaping the fat little limbs with a slow , caressing movement almost hypnotic in nature , she told him how lost she felt , how she no longer knew who she was nor where she was and how all that mattered to her was him . |
| 2 | Those who saw him then say he seemed to shrink into himself and lose what ever vestige he had till then retained . |
| 3 | As he slowly revolved he observed all points of the compass with eyes wide in wonder . |
| 4 | As a young man he had been pursued by many women ; that he secretly despised them did not lessen his attractiveness but in later years his large family and increasing years had hung about him with a weight as great as any deformity : but he would never risk exposing himself as Rose had . |
| 5 | Dustin refused , not only because he had not seen the very different Warner , which the director had , but he justifiably felt he had to find his own direction , even if he had to make a number of detours on the way . |
| 6 | She had stopped so suddenly that he obviously thought he 'd distressed her . |
| 7 | Does it matter whether he really died in a burning building or whether he only thinks he did ? |
| 8 | ‘ Did it ever occur to you that he did n't murder that other apprentice — that he only said he did , to frighten you ? ’ |
| 9 | He only wished he knew why . |
| 10 | After being passed from one civil servant to another , an embarrassed underling finally admitted ‘ he only wished he knew ’ confessing ‘ the trouble is , we have no control over it up here ; it 's all being done down in London . ’ |
| 11 | He only wished he 'd managed to discover more . |
| 12 | He was glad to hear that their priests were telling the people that the potato murrain was a visitation of the Almighty ; he only hoped they went on to draw the full lesson . |
| 13 | Sometimes Nick understood what Mister Johnny said and sometimes he only pretended he did , to annoy Carrie , but they were always happy together . |
| 14 | And it was as he turned from her , that jewel box in his hand , that he suddenly knew who had taken those jewels , and his anger carried him away from Charity 's pain and her need . |
| 15 | The sun warmed his face , and he suddenly knew he felt different . |
| 16 | He suddenly realised he had newer thought of the possible need to tell lies about why he was there . |
| 17 | ‘ Like everything else Bernard does , he suddenly decided he needed a large Welsh farmhouse TODAY and so they bought Rhydoldog , ’ a friend recalls . |
| 18 | He alone chose who came to see him . |
| 19 | ‘ He wrongly claimed I misled him by concealing knowledge of the Matrix Churchill case when I explained the Government 's policy . |
| 20 | He just knew he had cheap labour . |
| 21 | He just said there 'd been a terrible misunderstanding , and you would n't listen when he tried to explain . ’ |
| 22 | He just said he 'd met his solicitor friend who reckoned he could find out the details of the will . |
| 23 | such thing as a pill without side effects , he just said he had no side effects . |
| 24 | I du n no he just said he felt terrible . |
| 25 | No , he just said he paid six thousand pound on the tape , for the caravan . |
| 26 | ‘ He just said you 'd had a … disagreement ? ’ |
| 27 | Yeah he just said you did say I can have some more money , I said well yeah . |
| 28 | He was so convinced that she was , he just assumed she had stayed with some girlfriend to try to make him jealous . |
| 29 | Why did n't he just say she looked absolutely wonderful ? |
| 30 | He just did something did he ? |