Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [pron] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | No he , he only told me the two things , I wrote them down . |
| 2 | He erm , he left school , he only told them the day before . |
| 3 | From being just another kid with nits in his head , the smallest in his class and the only one in the whole school whose skin was a swarthy brown , he suddenly found himself the most popular boy around . |
| 4 | He just handed me the photograph of Sam , then took the letters and walked away . |
| 5 | For many years we sought access to him and the inner sanctum of his medieval palace , until in 1981 he finally gave us the first filmed interview ever granted by one of his line . |
| 6 | A slight break in the older man 's voice suggested he already suspected what the answer might be and was afraid . |
| 7 | He still granted himself the licences of old age — even if he was n't entitled . |
| 8 | I was dead against it , but he always did what the family wanted . |
| 9 | He also taught them the arts of circumcision and sub-incision , used to produce the traditional tattoos sported by Aranda menfolk . |
| 10 | He also showed me the passage in Captain Marryat 's Mr Midshipman Easy where Easy Sir , having invented a machine to alter the bumps on his head , tries to improve his personality ; with fatal results . |
| 11 | He also gave us the name of an excellent brickie who had worked with d-i-yers before and was to give us some good advice , as well as building straight walls . |
| 12 | She enjoyed hearing about the governess 's letters which would never be received and translations of East End rhyming slang , but did n't think he actually listened to her , he often asked her the same questions . |
| 13 | Although he now realised what the phenomenon was that he had just witnessed , he found it impossible to digest the truth before his very eyes : Firelight had given birth to a baby . |
| 14 | If he really disliked what the beastly troika had done to it , he could have resigned — or , perhaps more effectively , threatened to . |
| 15 | He immediately saw what the ferrymaster had been talking about . |
| 16 | " Of course , " he said , " of Course , " and he even showed her the corridor that led to the Ladies ' room , and she escaped , and they escaped from each other . |
| 17 | He made such a fine job of the earth , the sea and the hills ; He made an equally fine job of the creatures , large and small that run around on the land ; He even gave us the best crags in the world … |
| 18 | Candidates had to write down what they felt would most help them improve their lives and these suggestions were forwarded to the Prince in the diplomatic bag to wherever he happened to be in the world ; he then chose whom the money should go to . |
| 19 | He then showed us the brass plate of ‘ No. 1 ’ , still attached to the piece of cab as Selwyn Higgins cut it off . |
| 20 | He then gave me the line , in Italian , from memory : ‘ Dimmi se mai fu fatto qualque cosa ? ’ — ‘ Tell me if anything was ever done ? ’ |
| 21 | Although he evidently knew what the king had planned , he nowhere states it explicitly , and his silence has left the field to Mancini 's version . |
| 22 | Although he evidently knew what the king had planned , he nowhere states it explicitly , and his silence has left the field to Mancini 's version . |
| 23 | He accordingly renamed it the ‘ Eskimo Pie ’ and chose the distinctive Eskimo symbol that still appears on the wrapping . |
| 24 | And he either phoned me the following morning or if it was n't the following morning it was the one after that . |
| 25 | Well , Wayne is very gullible when he 's had a few and when you , Leslie , told him he was going to be a football star , it went to his head and he happily paid you the £10 signing-on fee . |
| 26 | She gathered up the bags and pushed them towards the child ; and when he reluctantly handed her the two pennies she said , ‘ Thank you very much . |
| 27 | He mentally circumcised me the day be signed my first pay-cheque . " |
| 28 | ‘ I believe someone invested in the business , ’ replied Sarah vaguely , ‘ but he never told me the details , and I did n't like to pry . ’ |
| 29 | He never gave her the chance . |
| 30 | But he certainly gave me the impression the boat belonged to him . ’ |