Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pers pn] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | I said , yeah he sold it to some bloke out Ivybridge for er erm off , off road racing and stuff . |
| 4 | ‘ What are they looking for ? ’ he asked them without any preliminary greeting . |
| 5 | When I next saw the King , he asked me about this experience . |
| 6 | He asked it without any apparent sense of its being a stupid question . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ? |
| 11 | What would you say , he got it for more . |
| 12 | He read it with less pleasure … |
| 13 | He re-emphasised it on another occasion : ‘ I identify with this notion … |
| 14 | Looking back on the period when he was seriously searching as a fourteen-year-old ( and for a man with a mind of Russell 's breadth this was no ‘ mere adolescence ’ ) , he described it like this : |
| 15 | Without being aware of it , he punished her for this deeply felt bodily rejection in bed by withdrawing his body out of bed . |
| 16 | He mentioned it to several of his male colleagues . |
| 17 | Even when he scolded them for some minor wrongdoing , he would cite the great orators like Cicero or Burke , as if he was taking part in a parliamentary debate , instead of addressing two small boys . |
| 18 | He lifted it with both hands to take a bite , glancing wistfully at his cigarette in the ashtray . |
| 19 | After he told them about this , they sent one letter from Siam covered with stamps : ‘ Those would have kept me in The Autocar for ever , but I could n't bear to part with the envelope . ’ |
| 20 | George MacKerracher was a character in himself , and although I always suspected that he made up most of his stories , he told them with such sincerity and verve that they were quite believable . |
| 21 | He told me about this condition quite openly , including the impulse to throw himself over cliffs etc . |
| 22 | Over the years , he told me on many occasions of his first day in business at Wilton when a young man . |
| 23 | With one of those insights which showed a mind much subtler than that of many of his contemporaries , he had drawn an analogy between logical positivism and surrealism ; but he told me on this occasion that he had once asked A.J. Ayer , as he then was , what political beliefs were compatible with logical positivism : to which the reply had been , not altogether to his surprise , that they would be decidedly left-wing . |
| 24 | ‘ He told you about that ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ He told you about that ? |
| 26 | and then we started speaking to this chap and say we were looking for this place where the erm , they sell all this food and so on , what 's the name of the place , he said oh he says it 's finished , so he said you know where the er , we said er where 's somewhere good you know to , to go and have a nice sleep , and he told us about that place up the mountain where we went , where we all went the last time |
| 27 | Does he recall that it is exactly a year since he told us in this House , ’ Our policies are working ’ ? |
| 28 | He messed us about this weekend did n't he ? |
| 29 | He ate it with some biscuits , getting it down fast , his face close to the plate , his fork-hand hooking round to beat illness to the punch . |
| 30 | He studied her with those incredibly gorgeous blue eyes , filled with charm and love , darkness and intelligence , sex appeal and strength . |