Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Well he phoned me last night and he 's going to phone me again on Sunday afternoon , we get on so well , Brenda I can just the imagine the pair of us tucked up into a four foot bed ! |
| 32 | He phoned me last night at home and I said you got your message then ? |
| 33 | He found me one day , crying my heart out , and because he was the sort of man he was — kind , sympathetic — I told him . |
| 34 | His hair was a little white in places and he found it difficult talking to people . |
| 35 | It 's in response to Mr Allenby 's question we seem to be patiently waiting for I think he posed it some time ago about the county council 's view on whether in the absence of a strategic exceptions policy or whatever you call it , a major exceptions policy in the structure plan , whether the county council would object to it being pursued in the in the local plan . |
| 36 | He drew him another map and watched Blunset wander off into the darkness . |
| 37 | He drew it each Friday when he drew the men 's wages but he never handed the money over to Sarah until Saturday morning when she was off to do the shopping . ’ |
| 38 | He caught me last time though . |
| 39 | I mean we could never have paid for all those tyres and when I retired the erm , they actually had a tyre fitter supplied and paid for by they were the , they took over the whole of the tyre maintenance , they had a tyre fitter down there and he used to go up to depot , change any tyres over there that were necessary , he inspected them each day and changed them over but of course he was notifying erm at the same time . |
| 40 | No if he cost him three X , what 's he gon na sell them for ? |
| 41 | He stopped me last Friday in the High Street and wanted me to sign his protest . |
| 42 | ‘ He beat me three years ago , but it will be different this time , ’ said Porter at a press conference yesterday . |
| 43 | He promised me this time he really would stop cranking . |
| 44 | My chance came some weeks later , when he visited me one November evening in my little cottage . |
| 45 | ‘ Cutting your hay is harder work than sword practice ! ’ he told her one day , a smile lighting up his handsome face . |
| 46 | She joked that she would only make money fifty years after she was dead , and he told her that money did not matter . |
| 47 | Erm he , he told him this morning on the phone , he 's looked into it , he 's the director and he apologizes . |
| 48 | He told them dirty jokes , irrepressible as ever . |
| 49 | He told them marvellous stories — Irish legends , fairies , all kinds of things . ’ |
| 50 | Then he told them terrible stories of his wild and criminal life at sea . |
| 51 | And both the Pharisees and the scribes began to grumble saying , this man receives sinners and eats with them , and he told them this parable saying , what man among you , if he has a hundred sheep and has lost one of them , does not leave the ninety and nine in the open pasture and go out to the one which is lost until he finds it . |
| 52 | He told them This Island Story from Wat Tyler 's point of view . |
| 53 | He told me that hair only shone after much combing , and that the same could be said of style . |
| 54 | At least five tragic scenarios had gone through my head by the time he told me that Dad had died . |
| 55 | He told me strange stories of red-skinned men who wore eagle feathers , and their wise man fitted Doctor Agrippa 's description . |
| 56 | He told me many things that were deeply fascinating . |
| 57 | and he told me many funerals used to pass |
| 58 | He told me some firm did all the furniture choosing and decorating . |
| 59 | And everything he did , as he told me several times in his Tel Aviv office , was strictly according to the law . |
| 60 | He told me this morning . ’ |