Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our Nancy might be only seventeen , but she 's already a full-growed woman to look at , and I know she 'd be pleased to be 'is wife , 'e 'd only 'ave to ask 'er , except 'e did say once that 'e 's waitin' a while before 'e gets married . |
| 2 | He was only about four when he died and I think it was totally unexpected , because I believe that the doctor who had tended him had remarked previously that he wished his own son , who was about the same age as Thomas Isaac , had been as robust . |
| 3 | It was also noticed that he ceased to whistle unconsciously as he walked up the aisle from the vestry . |
| 4 | He is perching on the railway , six stops down the line , with a stationmaster he got to know somehow when he was on the town in Petersburg — the Dostoevsky no-home at its most stripped and strange in this novel of aimless movement . |
| 5 | He tried to go solo but was quickly apprehended and subsequently jailed . |
| 6 | But writing now was not easy for him : he had begun to suffer with arthritis in the year following his retirement , and had had to give up his violin owing to lack of flexibility of his fingers , and as the condition developed , he found writing more and more difficult . |
| 7 | Mr Healey had said he was himself knackered that morning , having returned the previous day , very late , from a seminar in Florence , and taken a dose of the cough mixture Benylin to get to sleep , which he found worked better than Mogadon . |
| 8 | I was always annoyed though , Phil and George were magnificent dancers and the chap I used to walk out with sometimes he er he 'd he he used say now that I look like this ! |
| 9 | He stopped climbing only when he was too exhausted to climb any higher . |
| 10 | Morse thought it must be the splendid grandfather clock he 'd seen somewhere that he heard chiming the three-quarters ( 10.45 a.m. ) as he and Lewis sat beside each other in a deep settee in the Lancaster Room . |
| 11 | He said it was the first time he 'd done so but he was damned if he was going to be wheeled into a restaurant like a blasted mental patient out with his nurse . ’ |
| 12 | It was feared he 'd gone overboard and air and sea search was launched . |
| 13 | And er I suppose he he 'd gone there when he was about thirteen fourteen and er he came from a family from Where was it . |
| 14 | He had shed the formal suit he 'd worn previously and was dressed today in black trousers and leather jacket over a black silk shirt , sombre colours that only served to emphasise the olive cast of his skin , the night-darkness of his hair and eyes . |
| 15 | And he 'd appeared suddenly and endearingly shy , as if embarrassed at the memory of seeing her naked in his bed the night before . |
| 16 | I feared as well that Mills might not be dead after all , that he 'd recovered miraculously and decided for some reason not to go to the police . |
| 17 | You know , pick one up and he 'd collared thus and taken me . |
| 18 | I asked her if he 'd returned home and she told me to mind my own business . |
| 19 | A teenager who thought that he 'd won more than a hundred thousand pounds on a bet has today been told that he 'll get just seven hundred and twenty eight pounds . |
| 20 | Desperate not to have to overtake , he 'd braked hard and had felt the car shimmy dangerously . |
| 21 | And Liberal leader Paddy Ashdown 's popularity actually increased after the revelation that he 'd dipped more than just a toe into the typing pool . |
| 22 | He 'd walked round the engine sheds , he said , where he 'd looked long and lovingly at the old locomotives , and where he 'd seen schoolboys and middle-aged men carefully recording numbers and wheel-arrangements in their note-books . |
| 23 | Bus dri bus driver nearly we nearly hit the the thing nearly keeled over cos he did n't realize how many he 'd got upstairs and he went round the bend and it started to go . |
| 24 | He seemed to recover considerably after Paheri left home . |
| 25 | He seemed to relax more after he had spoken , to be less fixedly focused on the empty road . |
| 26 | He could sense that there was no harm in the Sweeper , and as the days went by and still Minch did not come back , he seemed to sense too that the Sweeper cared and was on his side in wishing for her safe return . |
| 27 | Once he seemed to sway slightly and one of the red-robed princes moved quickly to his side and took his elbow . |
| 28 | Shortly before his fifteenth birthday he began boxing professionally as ‘ Kid ’ Lewis at the Judaean Club , Whitechapel , where he had nearly fifty contests , and when Premierland opened he boxed there thirty-five times in 1912 . |
| 29 | As he held her there , he began to breathe heavily and there was a disconcerting expression on his face . |
| 30 | Then he began to move slowly and carefully past the table , on the opposite side to Moore . |