Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He hugged himself in self-pity as we took in this alien race dressed with an abandonment and originality we 'd never imagined possible . |
| 2 | He plunged himself into all this and more , avidly reading everything that came his way ; especially poetry , and not least Spanish , Chinese and Japanese poets in translation , but chiefly that of Federico Garçia Lorca and W.B. Yeats , of whom he mused , ‘ I loved Yeats ; his connections ( such an important code-word with Leonard ! ) his rhythms . ’ |
| 3 | He passed it on verbatim . |
| 4 | Whereas if he had , if he sold them as separate houses he 'd probably get forty thousand apiece . |
| 5 | So he sold them for four X. |
| 6 | His occupancy lasted until 1 761 , when he sold it to another local clothier , John Cox , in whose family it remained until 1818 when Elizabeth and William leased it for seven years to the partnership of John Cox and Weston Hicks . |
| 7 | Course he started messing with the er bodywork and the engine and they just wrecked it , but then he sold it to another driver and this other bloke Bob erm oh |
| 8 | I said , yeah he sold it to some bloke out Ivybridge for er erm off , off road racing and stuff . |
| 9 | Two years later , he sold it to Scottish & Newcastle , netting a cool £70 million in shares . |
| 10 | This failed and when the auction was over he sold it by private treaty ( agreement ) . |
| 11 | He sold it in 1989 to John Kluge , the richest man in the US , whose wife fancied living next to Balmoral . |
| 12 | His hotel room had three beds , and for a few days he shared it with two German boys , students , who had enormous rucksacks and bulky guidebooks , and who were eager for Tim to go round with them . |
| 13 | On police authorities , Mr Clarke said he expected them in future to have a mix of eight elected councillors , three magistrates and five members , including the chairman , appointed by the Home Secretary . |
| 14 | On police authorities , Mr Clarke said he expected them in future to have a mix of eight elected councillors , three magistrates and five members , including the chairman , appointed by the Home Secretary . |
| 15 | ‘ What are they looking for ? ’ he asked them without any preliminary greeting . |
| 16 | When I next saw the King , he asked me about this experience . |
| 17 | He asked me for 50,000 francs for Félix . |
| 18 | He asked it without any apparent sense of its being a stupid question . |
| 19 | He led her into one of his work alcoves where a hi-res VDR was set up . |
| 20 | He led her into another room , and there listened , with a good deal of amazement , to Rose 's account of her extraordinary conversation with Nancy . |
| 21 | He led her up some stairs to a steel gallery from which he said they would get a bird's-eye-view of the operation . |
| 22 | Much to my surprise , he led me towards one of the public beer tents . |
| 23 | Innerd took over as Palace 's captain in 1906 after Ted Birnie had left us and he led us to several marvellous FA Cup triumphs , including the fabulous 1–0 Will at the home of his former club , and League champions , Newcastle United in January 1907 . |
| 24 | After several attempts he got him at last on a bad telephone line . |
| 25 | has n't been , he 's been even more desperate than to get a goal , but he got one on twenty one . |
| 26 | But the stuff we got , the stuff we got before that was really good you know Dan , do you remember the stuff he got us before that ? |
| 27 | he shopped around and he said that he got er I think he says he got it for sixty pound less I think it is , yeah |
| 28 | What would you say , he got it for more . |
| 29 | He got it in nine seconds . |
| 30 | five in the second half , bloody hell three goals in three minutes , fifty five , fifty seven , fifty eight Don Goodman this bloke got a hat-trick , he got it within fifteen minutes |