Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [num] " in BNC.

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1 So he sold them for four X.
2 He sold it in 1989 to John Kluge , the richest man in the US , whose wife fancied living next to Balmoral .
3 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 .
4 He asked me for 50,000 francs for Félix .
5 He led her into one of his work alcoves where a hi-res VDR was set up .
6 Much to my surprise , he led me towards one of the public beer tents .
7 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
8 He got it in nine seconds .
9 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
10 Captain 11 times , he repaid them with 3915 runs , 12 centuries , an average of 43.98 , and an adhesiveness more commonly found in tubes of Araldite .
11 He invited her into one of his lesser parlours .
12 He let me into one of his secrets when he told me that he tries to avoid cream sauces and prefers to use stock and wine reductions .
13 He drew it in 1914 when he was an art student in Munich .
14 He caught her in two strides and his expression was neither analytical nor taunting .
15 She went off with a GI during the war and he divorced her in nineteen forty-six . ’
16 He overtook me after three tantrum-filled games ( mine , not his ) .
17 He told me of one case he had had of a woman in her early twenties .
18 He was an assiduous and permanent gambler of modest sums , He told me on one occasion that any year in which he did not win £1,000 was by his standards a failure .
19 He told me in one of his more lucid states that he ca n't write because he 's got too much to say … ’
20 My dad used to take two sugars , and when I said I was giving up sugar in tea and coffee , he reduced it to one .
21 He ate it in two bites , like a dog , and put me back on the gravestone .
22 He woke me at two this morning and gave me his best horse and bid me not to stop till I had overtaken you on the way .
23 It 's by an English painter , William Turner , he painted it in 1822 .
24 He telephoned me at three o'clock in the morning , and asked me to confirm it .
25 He was the first to admit that he had been psychologically screwed-up when he joined them after eleven years with the elite American anti-terrorist squad , Delta — a state of mind that had come about as a result of his last Delta mission .
26 The voters of the Shankill Road in Belfast , traditionally the home of working class populist independent unionism , had supported Johnny McQuade rather than the UDA or UVF and McQuade had taken that vote into the DUP when he joined it in 1971 .
27 He followed it for two blocks , in the inside lane , then suddenly cut across the traffic to the centre , executed a left U-turn and returned to the Platz der Einheit .
28 And he cut it in ten blocks .
29 he enjoyed it for forty years .
30 In that she exercised the power of appointment and appointed her husband ( provided that he survived her by 30 days ) to receive the income from her father 's estate .
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