Example sentences of "[verb] he [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd already lost any respect or hope he 'd once had for Changez . |
| 2 | With less than twenty minutes of his shift remaining he had already decided on the clothes he would be wearing for the special occasion . |
| 3 | Mr Mackie claimed he had later progressed to heroin and that Murray had again injected the drug to him . |
| 4 | You know he 's still got like two holidays left on them . |
| 5 | I believe he became dangerously fascinated by the idea of having one sex merge into the other . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ Do n't worry , Cawthorne deserves everything that 's coming to him , ’ said McInnes in a tone I bet he 'd never used on Sorrel . |
| 7 | We finally departed from the house as the pillager 's husband was scrabbling through the kitchen drawers in search of a rubber band he knew he 'd once seen in there somewhere … |
| 8 | ‘ … and the pathetic thing was that he thought he had just recovered from a long period of madness . ’ |
| 9 | John Coffin thought he had never sat in a room with so many clocks . |
| 10 | But now , nearly thirty years later , when he thought he had long come to terms with the deed and his own reaction to it , memory had begun to stir again . |
| 11 | The thought of wearing the coveted England captain 's armband holds no fears for Platt , who insists he has completely recovered from a knee operation . |
| 12 | His age could count against him but he insists he has fully recovered from a heart attack in 1988 . |
| 13 | The auctioneer , Harry Pickering , came into the room and announced he had just heard on the wireless that the King had died . |
| 14 | ‘ Doctor Andrews told me that he kept on saying how much he wished he could have left you enough money to live on ; but , as you know , nearly everything he possessed he 'd already bequeathed to that French museum which he started himself . |
| 15 | Thinking of Rosemary had triggered off memories of that fateful day about a year ago when her brother Sebastian had come seeking her out to say he had just bumped into Rosemary Green — Rosemary Talbot as she now was — in Hazelbury 's high street . |
| 16 | Harold Wilson always used to say he 'd never got past page one , did n't he ? |
| 17 | He said he had just driven from Ladgate Lane when the man suddenly appeared in front of him . |
| 18 | The finance director , John Precious , said he had already pencilled in an unchanged 1993 tax rate of 37 per cent , pegged by existing US proposals on the tax of foreign corporations . |
| 19 | He also said he had long fought from within the shadow cabinet for a change in Euro policies . |
| 20 | Abrams , who said he had never heard of such a thing before , asked him no more about them . |
| 21 | Calero said he had never heard of it , except to read about it : ‘ Was that the one we were supposed to blow up on the high seas ? ’ |
| 22 | One shaikh said he had never intervened in a notorious internal quarrel because ‘ they would say I was a shaikh ’ . |
| 23 | Asked whether people who give to the WWF to protect such things as pandas , whales and rainforests realized that their money is also being used in this way , in particular to support the bloodsport of angling , he said he had never thought of angling as a bloodsport and donations had been listed in their magazine . |
| 24 | He said he had never come across a clearer , more perfect case , with so many vital details so well remembered . |
| 25 | ‘ One day , ’ says Andrew , ‘ he said he had always wanted to be a father . |
| 26 | He said he had always worked for the benefit of his country and could not be held responsible for how the hard currency he procured was spent by its leaders . |
| 27 | He said he had always worked for the benefit of his country and could not be held responsible for how the hard currency he procured was spent by its leaders . |
| 28 | Although the judge , Mr Justice Jowitt , had questioned the victim about the length of her skirt — it was a mini-skirt — Ms Calloway said he had twice intervened on the victim 's behalf . |
| 29 | He said he had only repeated to the salesmen what Mr Runciman had said , that it was not a vintage year . |
| 30 | So , all in all , Uzzell said he felt quite reassured by the results — ‘ with the shift away from a hardware-oriented industry towards an emphasis on software , services and global networking , integrators who understand business issues have a vital role to play in the industry ’ . |