Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [pron] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Giving evidence , coroner 's officer DC Dave Hemes told how Mr Ryder , of Green Lane , Formby , gave no hint that he planned to take his own life . |
| 2 | Does he regret now avoiding the operation all those years ago , before he failed to scale his own Olympian heights in Rome and Seoul ? |
| 3 | Jackie 's face tied itself in a knot as he tried to remember his own mother . |
| 4 | He tried to develop his own Formula One team in 1976 but gave that up in 1980 when near to financial disaster . |
| 5 | ‘ Ah well , ’ he said finally , ‘ if he tried to get his own back for his son 's trouble , we will have to crack his head too , ’ and he swept off into the dance . |
| 6 | He promised to return it that evening . |
| 7 | Watching Niall haul himself out of the water , she felt suddenly absurdly shy as , in one fluid movement , he bent to retrieve his own towel , draping it casually around his neck . |
| 8 | He turned to find the President , Max Klein , leading his party up the aisle and he hastened to take his own seat . |
| 9 | He 'd seen it many times . |
| 10 | Ever since he 'd given her that power of attorney she 'd been getting above herself . |
| 11 | My father was a Gemini , and I knew your mother was a Sagittarian as soon as I found he 'd given her half the clip . |
| 12 | Erm but he 'd given me this number , Glen about Portakabins . |
| 13 | ‘ Did you have a — ? ’ good trip , Leith might have said , but as if thinking he 'd given them enough time to sort themselves out , Naylor was butting in , and positively flabbergasting her by what he chose to interrupt with ! |
| 14 | But from what he 'd heard it all broke down every year and had to be started up again in the spring , and — ‘ I do n't know , ’ he said . |
| 15 | I asked him why he 'd lost his own teeth and he said the cause had been pyorrhea . |
| 16 | He 'd saw his own damned throat open , if he had to , but he would n't let this happen . |
| 17 | Caroline stared at him , waiting for him to smile , to give some hint that he 'd made a joke she 'd simply not understood , but he only went on looking at her , his face as cool and composed as if he 'd done nothing more than offer to top up her sherry . |
| 18 | He 'd he 'd done it all , he was happy enough then . |
| 19 | I 'd once had to miss a rendezvous with him after he 'd done his own stripping vicar act for some giggling secretary 's twenty-first birthday and he 'd shot out of the pub stark bollock naked to find me somewhere else . |
| 20 | If he 'd showed us some we would n't have even had it cut . |
| 21 | Well he thought your dad was buying that mould from Jim so he did say that , he , he 'd lent him that book on how to actually build them , but that 's |
| 22 | It thrilled her that he 'd called them that . |
| 23 | On election night , after hearing he 'd kept his own Oxfordshire seat , he blamed the Cheltenham result on ’ wicked old-fashioned racism ’ and said it was ’ a slur on the town itself . ’ |
| 24 | He did n't have a house here , he did n't have a coach , he 'd shaped his own board . |
| 25 | Could it be that what he was feeling was a kind of envy , in the sense that he 'd brought her here , to a place that he felt he 'd made his own , and in a matter of weeks she 'd already grown closer to it than he could ever hope to be ? |
| 26 | His voice was deep and soft with memories , so that she felt her heart dip , then beat crazily as she remembered the last time she 'd been involved in his research , when he 'd kissed her that morning . |
| 27 | After an eight month investigation , Gloucestershire police came to the conclusion that he 'd taken his own life . |
| 28 | He got there at four o'clock he had four fish he could catch I think out of the ten for the week cos he caught the others and he 'd caught them all by half past four . |
| 29 | Even after bidding a fond farewell to Ben and Carole Meadows , there still had n't been the opportunity to have anything other than a few brief casual words with Ross as he 'd driven them all back to New York . |
| 30 | Feeling unutterably guilty , she saw he 'd brought her another drink and a fresh hot-water bottle . |