Example sentences of "[prep] he [coord] [pers pn] [was/were] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't really know him — my main memory is of going with him and Joan and Kathleen ( she was enormously proud of him and I was quite ready to do a spot of hero-worshipping ) for a walk in Cardington meadows . |
| 2 | There was no kind of animosity at all because we are still friends with him but it was just that his presence did n't do anything dramatic for the group creatively so we asked him to go . ’ |
| 3 | Only later , when she was in love with him and it was too late for common sense to qualify her feelings , did she learn more about him . |
| 4 | I got on well with him and he was partly responsible a year or so later when I moved to a morning paper in Wales . |
| 5 | Eventually the law caught up with him and he was heavily fined for caging protected species . |
| 6 | For several months , Lavinia enjoyed a passionate affair with him and he was frequently a visitor to Shaw Place for he was a Luftwaffe pilot and shared Lavinia 's love of flying . |
| 7 | The cripple turned to make off into the undergrowth and as he did so there was a twang from Marian 's bow and one of his crutches spun from under him and he was down one-sidedly . |
| 8 | His reputation went before him and it was not auspicious . |
| 9 | There was nothing unusual about him and he was n't fired . |
| 10 | ‘ Castleford made an inquiry for him but I was n't interested in letting him go . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I was very pleased for him but I was actually quite upset as well . |
| 12 | A number than went for him and it was then Mr Johnson brandished a kitchen knife . |
| 13 | David Tagg of Grand Metropolitan also acknowledged that headhunters will try quite naturally to seduce good people away from such companies as his own ; but , he maintained , headhunters overall did a good job for him and he was not frightened that they might take his staff . |
| 14 | ‘ It was n't an easy show for him and he was very conscious of carrying it all the way . |
| 15 | Getting rid of me had proved too much for him and he was now trying to force through a muddled compromise . |
| 16 | She was better off without him and we were n't sorry to see him off our patch . ’ |
| 17 | She waved to him but he was not looking in her direction . |
| 18 | Jarvis tried to talk to him but he was deeply suspicious , saw Jarvis first as a social worker , then as the press , swore at him and spat , landing a gob of spittle on his jacket lapel . |
| 19 | ‘ I was then introduced by telephone to Mr Ford and spoke to him but I was extremely unhappy with some of the explanations that Mr Ford had given . |
| 20 | For a moment he seemed quite dreadfully aged and the next I was used to him and he was quite unchanged . |
| 21 | So I explained to him and he was very nice , er but one of the things that they 'd said that they would do , is get all the news broadcasters er to sign consent forms |
| 22 | Whereas , if he leapt around , stood on his hind legs , and tried to eat a pound or two of human flesh , the headstall was not put on him and he was n't taken anywhere . |
| 23 | Pulling the tabs on the thermal cans to heat up the food , she glanced over at him but he was exactly as he 'd been all day , close yet remote , unreachable . |
| 24 | After his marriage it was rumoured he had been involved in a gambling scandal , but his father-in-law stood by him and it was largely through him that de Burgh was created a marquess in the peerage of Ireland in 1825 and Baron Somerhill in the peerage of the United Kingdom in 1826 . |
| 25 | The information was n't either was n't available to him or was not understood by him and he was n't able to interpret it for the board . |
| 26 | The young boy was extremely embarrassed but soon swallowed his pride and climbed back into his canoe while we all fell about with laughter around him and it was then that I heard the bang . |