Example sentences of "he [vb past] he [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly he realised he had no fear of death . |
| 2 | To his embarrassment he realised he had an erection and moved quickly to place a copy of the Teheran Times on his lap before the stewardess reached his row . |
| 3 | The doorman watched his visitor as if he expected him to steal the light fittings . |
| 4 | But he , he became he became the area secretary , of the Derbyshire miners er Derbyshire miners organization . |
| 5 | Politely he asked him to leave a quote so he could discuss it with his wife . |
| 6 | If he asked him to pass the screwdriver he passed the hammer and if he asked for the hammer , he passed the nearest broomhandle , which was usually in another room altogether . |
| 7 | He admitted he has no experience of animal bites . |
| 8 | As he swam he dreamed the Whale calm , asking the great creature politely for its cooperation in garnering that which his village needed . |
| 9 | built it and he built he had the Kirkwall Hotel , the Stenness Hotel and the Stromness Hotel and an hotel in in Shetland . |
| 10 | When the father turned 65 he gave up work , and ‘ at last he found he had a son , as later on in his old age I helped him and Mother all I could . |
| 11 | As he stared back at her he found he had no answer . |
| 12 | His robot companions were now to operate well away from him across a fairly large room and at key moments in the drama when there was an anticipatory silence from everyone else , he found he had the personal ‘ power ’ , and with some verbal style ( and a high degree of repressed excitement as he discovered he could be publicly effective ) he presented himself as an efficient robot controller . |
| 13 | Later , he found he shared an interest |
| 14 | When he moved he had the supple , easy grace of a big cat . |
| 15 | He told he had an important engagement and must go , on the Saturday night . |
| 16 | Ooh , he still looked nice even though he 'd he had a birth mark round his nose like , you know . |
| 17 | And he came he became a prominent Parliamentarian , perhaps in the thirties . |
| 18 | He dreamt that he was in the coils of a giant worm , and when he woke he found the bedclothes wrapped tightly around him . |
| 19 | The tears gathered more thickly in his eyes and in the partial darkness he imagined he saw the form of a young man standing under a dripping tree . |
| 20 | Levi did n't look at the leaderboard from the 7th hole until he was on the fairway at the 13th , when he noticed he held a two-shot lead . |
| 21 | He was not without talent , though , said Joe , and he advised him to join a local theatre group to get some experience now that the studio training scheme had been abolished . |
| 22 | For a time he believed he had a vocation to be a priest himself but he reverted to a previous plan to save sufficient money to go to university . |
| 23 | He believed he had no soul . ’ |
| 24 | Never leaving us to feel that he has short-changed us , each observation complete in itself , as if it has been roundly considered before utterance , he manages to accommodate the following items of interest in that eighteen hundred words : a comparison between Hebridean manners of burial and Roman funeral rites ; the weather ( repeatedly ) ; the literacy of the Hebrideans ; how travellers are accommodated , there being no hotel system ; diet — wild-fowl , fish , venison , beef , mutton , goat , poultry , bread ; whisky for breakfast ( the morning dram , known as a ‘ skalk ’ ) ; the availability of tea , coffee , marmalade and other preserves , honey and cheese ; trading practices — wine from the French in exchange for wool ; culinary variety , short on vegetables other than potatoes , not good on custards ; napery , crockery and cutlery ; the abating fervour of the clans in the wake of Culloden ; and he believed he saw the slow rise of prosperity under the ‘ unpleasing consequences of subjection , . |
| 25 | By their third single , he believed he held an important position in the group because Solowka and Gregory were often absent from concerts . |
| 26 | He believed he needed a much better hospital in order to be cured . |
| 27 | As he turned he caught a glimpse of something go past the open door , he dashed outside in time to see the figure of the old tramp going towards the slope as if to climb up and away . |
| 28 | In all three raids he claimed he had a gun and at one building society he told staff he was armed with a hand grenade . |
| 29 | He reckoned he 'd a right to nice things the same as this bad company he 'd got in with . |
| 30 | When he arrived he alerted the Clean-Up Squad . |