Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E really loved those 'orses . |
| 2 | The tradesman who put him there knew this , and hoped that by being removed to such unfamiliar and unpleasant surroundings his debtor would soon see the sense of agreeing to do what would immediately return him to the comparative comfort of his own home , namely to surrender , in settlement of his debt , the real estate which the law did not allow the trader to touch . |
| 3 | NO SNOW fell during the night and at 10.00 , after Erika had run her five kilometres under a dazzling blue sky , Karl ran and said that he thought he rather did that a brief tour of Berlin would be possible and that he would be waiting in the lounge of the Palast at 11.00 ; adding that Paul should meet them at the television Tower at 1.00 |
| 4 | The librarian , fearful of fire , gently shooed Corbett out so the clerk went down to stroll in the monastery 's small herb garden while he rigorously analysed all he had learnt in his journey to Kinghorn . |
| 5 | There was no need whatsoever for him to ‘ take her over ’ — she knew that , and Travis knew that , and Naylor Massingham would create merry hell when he eventually knew that . |
| 6 | He eventually incorporated this idea into his wider plan for tackling unemployment , the 1930 Mosley Memorandum . |
| 7 | He eventually gave this one up and left them both threatening the car park attendant , but it took him half an hour to cross the street and ring the bell at No. 3 . |
| 8 | Later , in his book Aromatherapie , he describes how he successfully treated several long-term psychiatric patients with essential oils . |
| 9 | Now he felt his brain slowly expanding , the noise and sunshine seemed to have entered his skull , and he badly wanted some food to settle the turbid churning of his feelings . |
| 10 | When Gaitskell met the chairmen on 22 July 1948 , however , he mercilessly exposed many of their arguments as the specious reasoning of bigoted men . |
| 11 | When he duly did this , he was one day out of time . |
| 12 | At home he rarely had more than a piece of toast and marmalade for breakfast , but when he was away he ate the whole cooked breakfast . |
| 13 | He rarely showed any emotion , even when people presented him with the most heart-felt outpourings of their fears and hopes . |
| 14 | He rarely paid any attention to the plays progressing below him . |
| 15 | The only trouble was that he never seemed to bother too much with punctuation — he apparently left that to me ! ’ |
| 16 | He apparently reckoned any pressure would n't be effective . |
| 17 | ‘ You know , there is a story in Malta , ’ he said drily , ‘ that when St Paul the Apostle was shipwrecked on our shores , back in 60 AD , and he performed a miracle by removing the poison from a snakebite , he merely transferred that poison on to the tongues of Maltese women . ’ |
| 18 | He obviously expected some sort of reaction . |
| 19 | He obviously intended this remark to conclude their conversation for he half-turned to call his grooms . |
| 20 | But he impatiently dismissed this line of thought . |
| 21 | I have marmalade on toast right and he only said this morning and he said do n't forget the marmalade , he 's chucking the jar out . |
| 22 | ‘ But you see , dear , ’ said Bartlemas , ‘ he only got that one together in a hurry … ’ |
| 23 | Anyway , he only collected all these things till they got sufficient to auction them off . |
| 24 | He only did that simply because he gets asked questions . |
| 25 | I 'm with you yeah , see Sam 's got some learning , when he comes to spellings to me , again I would , I would print yeah , he only scrawled that down last night , he says I 've got some spellings on sports mum , I said do you know any of 'em ? , he said no , I said when 's you test ? , he says Friday , well I got ta book on all sports and then I read it because sports and you think hockey 's one of them , oh yeah , racket , which is spelt wrong I 've had to , I think it 's got a U in , but again I mean sometimes , I mean I 'm a good speller , I do n't know about you , but I look at them sometimes and I have to go and get the dictionary have to check em |
| 26 | In addition , he only considered those operations in terms of deterrence , and ignored such vital factors as the practical ( as well as the moral ) consequences of abandoning retributive justice . |
| 27 | ‘ He so wanted that job as a mime artiste . |
| 28 | François de Callières , the French diplomat who wrote in the 1690s the best-known diplomatic manual of the period , pointed out that the cities of Bologna and Ferrara , now incorporated in the papal state , still sent " diplomatic deputations " to the pope and that in Spanish-ruled Sicily Messina , until the rising of 1674 there , had been able to send similar deputations to Madrid ; but he rightly saw these as unimportant hangovers from the past . |
| 29 | But in prison he perhaps recaptured some of his lost knighthood in telling the heroic stories of the Round Table . |
| 30 | On 30 June 1921 these elements coalesced and he suddenly saw that familiar landscape with new eyes . |