Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] he [verb] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I assumed he 'd just picked you for the resemblance . ’ |
| 2 | I noticed he 'd soon dropped the ‘ sir ’ as well . |
| 3 | ‘ I imagined he 'd never seen her ! ’ |
| 4 | Behind me the sound again of moving rubble ; from the change in sound quality , I guessed he had already entered the passage . |
| 5 | He looked at his watch and told me , yet as far as I knew he had never heard that language before . |
| 6 | I thought he looked so lost and unhappy that I just wanted to comfort him at first , and Chris says he just thought I was kind . |
| 7 | I thought he 'd actually caught a defender as he headed it but er he has n't really got a good contact on the ball . |
| 8 | ‘ At first I thought he had just blown up or even broken down . |
| 9 | I thought he had just punched me but he must have produced a knife , ’ Mr Norrie mumbled through his swollen mouth . |
| 10 | I thought he had probably made an arrangement with a brothel-keeper , and sometimes I pictured him clinging to the branch of a tree peering in the darkness through the window of some schoolgirls ' dormitory . |
| 11 | I thought he 's just picked me up . |
| 12 | I said he 's only got a bag of my plums ! |
| 13 | The blood which flowed in his veins meant that , as well as expressing his emotions with the dramatic use of his hands , Vitor d'Arcos was a proud man — and she doubted he had ever begged anyone for anything in his entire life . |
| 14 | She imagined he looked almost relieved and she felt the same . |
| 15 | She knew he 'd never married . |
| 16 | In many ways she was her father 's daughter , and she knew he had only loved one woman — her mother . |
| 17 | Yes , she said he 'd always got the music on loud and sort of full of messing about you know so |
| 18 | I think you said he 'd just moved into the area recently . |
| 19 | The last time we met he had just bought a new boat , having taken up sailing in his spare time ( but he has n't much of that ) . |
| 20 | We can reveal he plans to invest about a hundred and fifteen million of his own money without going to the bank , much of it 's for planes , staff and facilities , but we discovered he 's just used forty five million to buy out Saboo Saison the airline 's Japanese shareholder . |
| 21 | Her expression froze at that , and his heart seemed to sink into his guts as he realised he 'd almost said the wrong thing . |
| 22 | He agreed he had once told journalists he was ‘ a male tart ’ but said this was a reference to his many relationships with women , not men . |
| 23 | He agreed he had once told journalists he was ‘ a male tart ’ but said this was a reference to his many relationships with women , not men . |
| 24 | He maintained he had never received replies to letters or acknowledgement of seeds but the dispatch of the eighth edition of the Dictionary ( April 1768 ) awaited direction and then , with an unusually personal note , he excuses himself , ‘ … having had the misfortune to dislocate the ankelbone of my leg above a year and a half since gone … confinement and want of usual exercise has brought many maladies upon me , but I am in hope of proper remedies to prolong life a little longer . ’ |
| 25 | It seemed he had just lost the ferrule of his stick . |
| 26 | It seemed he had just given up and was letting her go graciously and tenderly . |
| 27 | As the prayer went on he showed he had already mastered the priestly mumble . |
| 28 | He swore he had never touched their sheep , and he swore by many Northern oaths that he was in Newcastle up till eleven o'clock on the night of the murders . |
| 29 | As he spoke , he confessed he had already started moving funds out of the country . |
| 30 | He confessed he had never read this one , given to him by a Parisian admirer . |