Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That Arthur 'ad stopped at a pub on 'is way to the church , 'e said 'e needed fortifyin' , and 'im and 'is best man both went in the pub an' stayed there a lot longer than they should of . |
| 2 | ‘ E asked me to describe yer , which I did , thinkin' maybe 'e was goin' to tell yer you 'd come into some money , but 'e said you 'd taken in a young woman , that the pair of you 'ad nicked 'is wallet an' made off with it . |
| 3 | But he had paid part of that apothecary 's bill that very morning , and the attorney to whom the bailiff took him agreed there had been a mistake . |
| 4 | Yeah I know it 's easier no you must feel really gutted , I mean I would I know , because as you said , you going out for ten months yeah exactly , yeah , exactly I mean come on you really liked him fancied him loved him oh wow , I said love , love love , I do n't know love hey man yeah yeah it 's probably , you know like when you dumped him for Danny it 's just probably like that yeah exactly exactly , so do n't worry oh come on he ca n't give up ten months for nothing I know it has to end someday , but it does n't I mean it 's like everyone thinks like that , it really annoys me , everybody , right who 's about our age yeah , they just go out with someone knowing that one day it 's gon na end , they 're just waiting for the day , and that you know , you should go out with someone with the intentions of being with them forever I know that sounds pathetic , but it 's true , yeah I know , yeah exactly yeah , yeah I know , why do you think I said it ? |
| 5 | He was appointed MBE , but those who knew him thought he deserved much more . |
| 6 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 7 | Endill found it funny but someone sitting next to him said it became very annoying year after year . |
| 8 | The smell accompanying him suggested he 'd brought fresh coffee beans . |
| 9 | She did n't say anything , but the way she toyed with him suggested she wanted him to be demonstrating all day like a vacuum cleaner salesman . |
| 10 | When he saw Robert , he made what looked like a little , stunted bow and moved back towards the boys on the lawn . |
| 11 | In his mind 's eye he relived their love-making of a few hours before and the picture of Michael lying underneath him as he penetrated him rose in his mind . |
| 12 | He realised they had been watching for some minutes before he noticed them . |
| 13 | The blind man called the police when he realised they had stolen his brown leather wallet . |
| 14 | But he realised they needed much more evidence before they could arrest him for murder . |
| 15 | The look the doctor gave Patrick showed that he realised what lay behind the question . |
| 16 | He skirted a small lake and walked straight into a patch of quicksand He was up to his shins before he realised what had happened . |
| 17 | Cheltenham taxi driver , Richard Morris says he was on cloud 9 when he realised what had happened . |
| 18 | He realised I had finally caught him … |
| 19 | He realised it had only been a bait for which he had fallen . |
| 20 | She was able to roam further afield now , for Kit Everard felt he could gamble on her honour ( he hoped she was becoming attached to him too ) , and allowed her to walk on the beach by herself , and swim out to sea , even though he realised it meant she could slip out of the compound , for the sections of the stockade that he had left till last would enclose the shore . |
| 21 | He stretched and picked up the phone , but before he could dial he realised he had cut in on a conversation . |
| 22 | He realised he had been , and clamped his lips . |
| 23 | They saw him at the same time as he realised he had n't understood what the man had said . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He ended up 200 miles off course and when the Salisbury beacon came in showing a 160 mile track error to the west , he realised he had been following a star ! |
| 26 | Suddenly he realised he had no fear of death . |
| 27 | Later he realised he had known even at six on that June morning that the time left would be short before the surge of pain crashed through his head . |
| 28 | When someone came into the room he realised he had gone out in a sweet unconscious . |
| 29 | And in that instant , he realised he had become a DEEP . |
| 30 | Basically he 'd over indulged for too many years , to the point here even he realised he 'd gone too far . ’ |