Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E 's keen on 'er , and she seemed ti be fond of 'im till 'e asked for 'er in wedlock . ’ |
| 2 | Anyway , 'e spoke for about an 'our and at the end of it 'e asked for people to come forward and testify that they were saved . |
| 3 | An' I looked at Mr Dysart an' 'e looked at me and we both knew what 'ad 'appened without going to see . |
| 4 | I saw 'im in the Observer wearing all that leather clobber and 'e looked like a man after me own heart , man . |
| 5 | 'E looked like an Italian but 'e did n't speak like they do . |
| 6 | ‘ But 'e died in 1937 . ’ |
| 7 | 'E died in 'ospital a few days later . |
| 8 | ‘ 'E went into the bathroom , and I went . |
| 9 | It finished 'is boxin'. 'E was goin' ter fight fer a title before 'e went in the army . ’ |
| 10 | ’ 'E fell in t'river and was swept away , m'Lady . ’ |
| 11 | Anyway , 'e spoke for about an 'our and at the end of it 'e asked for people to come forward and testify that they were saved . |
| 12 | Well , 'e become top scorer o' centuries when 'e was 42 and went on to 197 of 'em before 'e retired at 51 . |
| 13 | A week later the labour master was convicted ; he was fined ten shillings and costs , although the solicitor who was defending him asked for him to be sentenced to a term of imprisonment ( in which case , an appeal could have been lodged ) . |
| 14 | The man next to him winked in a fast act of conspiracy , a runner bean of a man who then extended his hand to Holly and their fists gripped in a distant greeting , but there were no words . |
| 15 | I trusted Carradine because he was different , but trusting him led to mistrusting everyone else . |
| 16 | Where an assistant solicitor 's employment came to an end on the dissolution of the firm , such dissolution was held to constitute a breach of his contract of employment such that the restrictive covenants imposed on him ceased to be enforceable — see Briggs v Oates [ 1990 ] ICR 473 . |
| 17 | This time the children nearest to him slouched to a standstill , but the others continued moving and chattering . |
| 18 | Walking with him smacked of an intimacy she wanted to avoid , apart from which the sight of them together would prompt all sorts of speculation among the villagers . |
| 19 | Athelstan was always surprised at-the effect he caused ; here he was in a place where man died for the price of a few coins , but at the sight of the lighted wax candle , the sound of the small tinkling bell and him swathed in a cope , the coarsest men and women stood aside as if they acknowledged the great mysteries he carried. , |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Although he was in repose the same energy she had noticed when she first met him oozed through his body . |
| 22 | In fact , both Stirling 's legs were temporarily paralysed and he suffered quite a severe back injury which was to keep him immobilized for the best part of two months . |
| 23 | He knew she only had his best interests at heart but he had yet to meet one of these women whose interest in him stemmed beyond his bank balance . |
| 24 | There was a slow sensuous laziness to his movements contradicted by the dangerously hard angles of his face , the flashing darkness of his eyes which no matter how covertly she looked at him seemed to be gazing at her . |
| 25 | The noises had become louder , the lights were brighter and sharper , and the people around him seemed to be turning into over-expansive parodies of their true selves . |
| 26 | The SS man who had told me to find him seemed to be particularly irritated by this information . |
| 27 | But the odd tension which had been nagging at him seemed to be increasing . |
| 28 | Going along with him seemed to be the best way of getting rid of him . |
| 29 | When Albert missed the child most urgently , the refusal of money for him seemed like a moral tactic to take him away forever . |
| 30 | Anselm had known Hugh as papal legate in France when he was abbot of Bec , but his close association with him came at a moment when he was in a very perplexing situation . |