Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Carrie 's bruvver Danny was a good boxer , ’ he went on amiably. ‘ 'E used ter box in the army . |
| 2 | We 're the best meal place round 'ere , an' after all 'e used ter call in all the time when 'e 'ad that ovver job , ’ Carrie reminded him . |
| 3 | Gwendolen sitting next to him did not object to his silence . |
| 4 | This snappily dressed , half-smiling man with something of the looks of the young Cary Grant about him did not approximate to his vision of a psychiatrist . |
| 5 | The rest of him did n't move at all . |
| 6 | He knew that sooner or later , the flood would come , even if the sinful people around him did n't believe in that , or in anything else which God had said . |
| 7 | But whoever killed him did n't need to be especially fit with a weapon like that in their hand . ’ |
| 8 | She 's just , that 's just pulling their mind you I did say to her the last straw was Christmas day , can you imagine like , I mean me and him did n't have to , I did n't have to stay in and cook dinner , I done it cos she was there we 'd all be together , she did n't fucking come home . |
| 9 | Well everybody that was working for him had always worked in the quarries all their life , and they er they just been working for the slater company before the quarry shut down . |
| 10 | Paul , he made up covered with bullet wounds . |
| 11 | He doubled up laughing at his own joke . |
| 12 | But he agreed not to complain about her market-minded vision of the Community and she not to bully him about France 's half-in , half-out position in NATO . |
| 13 | He became increasingly attached to an almost Greek sense of the hero , but recast in a mould similar to Nietzsche 's superman . |
| 14 | He became increasingly frustrated by his inability to preserve food , especially dairy products , during hot summer months . |
| 15 | Medina trained as a merchant in Amsterdam , moved to London in 1670 , and from 1672 until 1677 lived in Great St Helens , where he became well established as a merchant . |
| 16 | He taught initially at a junior school in Berkshire , then at a grammar school , and later at Downe House , where he became well known on the art-teaching circuit when his pupils won ( for two consecutive years ) a national art competition and their work toured internationally . |
| 17 | He became well known as a music festival adjudicator , working in Canada every alternate year between 1924 and 1938 , and he took the Glasgow Orpheus Choir on tours to Canada , the USA , and half a dozen European countries . |
| 18 | He became highly acclaimed amongst the Irish-American community for his so-called ‘ Morrison visas ’ . |
| 19 | I believe he became dangerously fascinated by the idea of having one sex merge into the other . ’ |
| 20 | As she became more sexually active — to him , frighteningly so — he became seriously disturbed about whether he could keep up with her . |
| 21 | Entering New College as an undergraduate in October 1880 , he became deeply stirred by the social and imperialist ideas current in Oxford at the time . |
| 22 | June and Robert Braithwaite achieved much better intercourse both in and out of bed when she learned to understand and value his greater need of physical sensation and he became less worried by her being different and placing a lower value on physical experience . |
| 23 | Did they follow him on his pub-crawl , clinically waiting until he became suitably juiced before switching on the camera ? |
| 24 | Thereafter he became better known as a forensic scientist achieving such professional distinctions as presidency of the Medico-Legal Society and of the Forensic Science Society ( of which Grant was a founder member and secretary ) . |
| 25 | Later that night he became so engrossed in his studies he completely forgot about it . |
| 26 | He became so identified with us that he was the perfect penitent and made the perfect confession to the Father for us . |
| 27 | Although his initial interest had been aroused because of the connection between current problems and events which may have taken place in a former life , he became so enthralled by the topic that he took it up for its own sake . |
| 28 | Further anecdotes on the fame of Champagne wines in the fourteenth century are told by Max Sutaine in his Essai sur l'histoire des vins de la Champagne ( 1845 ) ; in particular he relates how , when the German king Wenceslas arrived in Reims in 1397 to discuss with Charles VI the division within the church over the popes of Avignon ( a subject Henry Vizetelly describes in A History of Champagne ( 1882 ) as ‘ very fit for a drunkard and a madman to put their heads together about ’ ) he became so intoxicated on the local wines that he signed all the documents before him , departing without knowing what he had signed . |
| 29 | In attempting to return to Afghanistan in 1840 , he became accidentally embroiled in the Baluchistan revolt and was imprisoned by the British authorities without either charge or good reason ( described in Narrative of a Journey to Kalat , 1842 ) . |
| 30 | As he got up to go to the microphone , I asked him what he was going to sing . |