Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He planned to keep them idle , like some ship 's crew becalmed miles from shore . |
| 2 | Beaten to death : A 45-year-old married man was beaten to death in Cardiff by a gang of teenage vandals after he tried to stop them damaging traffic bollards . |
| 3 | He tried to phone you last night , the number you gave him , but there was something wrong with the line- ’ |
| 4 | He tried to keep it quiet , but there were people in the neighbourhood who were all too eager to be a part of the excitement . |
| 5 | WHEN Alex Ferguson joined Manchester United as the new boss he wanted me out of Old Trafford so badly he tried to make me redundant . |
| 6 | He tried to make it sound fresh and exciting . |
| 7 | HENRY WHARTON plans to take the short route to victory at Leeds Town Hall tonight when he defends his Commonwealth super-middleweight title against Australian Rod Carr , the man he beat to win it last year . |
| 8 | He promised to return it that evening . |
| 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 | He 'd he 'd done it all , he was happy enough then . |
| 16 | If he 'd showed us some we would n't have even had it cut . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | It thrilled her that he 'd called them that . |
| 19 | Like as not he would n't even recognize her , and he 'd made it clear she was merely one of a number of girls who accommodated him . |
| 20 | He 'd made it clear enough after all that he did n't expect her to hang about as he had another date . |
| 21 | He 'd made it clear right form the start just how he regarded her — as a brash and brassy nightclub singer , nothing else . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | At the time he 'd thought it strange but then forgot about it . |
| 26 | Feeling unutterably guilty , she saw he 'd brought her another drink and a fresh hot-water bottle . |
| 27 | Since when he 'd left her alone again , and Dolly was having to put up with the April breeze . |
| 28 | So he 'd had it all the time . |
| 29 | Well no it 's he did n't give two hundred pound for it , and he 'd had it eight or ten years . |
| 30 | He forgot to take his ten pence out of the slot where he 'd had it ready , and he 'd left a pile of tens and fives sitting on top of the directories . |