Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he 'd hobbled back through the sleet a tiny part of him had hoped her gratitude would include an embrace , or at least a few words that would let him know she felt something for him . |
| 2 | I half expected him to say they stole them from somebody 's garden but … |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | I picked up a fallen branch , and as he passed I struck him on the head . |
| 5 | I love the way cos he goes I got something for you and with the ink he goes , oh , alright , and he throws it and and he goes , nice catch ! |
| 6 | Inevitably , when he arrived home he found he had nothing but a blank sheet of photographic paper . |
| 7 | He says they asked her to the disco . |
| 8 | he shopped around and he said that he got er I think he says he got it for sixty pound less I think it is , yeah |
| 9 | He says he taught her about wildlife , geography and Henry VIII and that she loved to listen . |
| 10 | He says he handed it to his lawyer without even opening it . |
| 11 | The tale of Simon the Athenian appears in Samuel Sharp 's History of Stamford of 1847 , where he says he found it in a ‘ quaint old black-letter record ’ . |
| 12 | He claimed he associated himself with an abnormality that characterised the outstanding personalities of history , such as Confucius , Jesus Christ , Julius Caesar and Hitler . |
| 13 | When Paullus saw at Olympia the gold and ivory statue of Zeus by Pheidias , he declared he felt himself in the presence of a god . |
| 14 | When he finished he told her about himself . |
| 15 | Beck had a miserable round in The Players Championship last week but he confessed it helped him in his charging 65 , one off the course record . |
| 16 | In Three Men in a Boat he tells how , having gone through a medical dictionary at the British Museum — to check if he had hayfever — he decided he had everything in the book except housemaids knee . |
| 17 | ‘ I am not what you think I am , ’ and I asked him what he thought I believed him to be . |
| 18 | He thought she had someone with her . |
| 19 | He thought he had them with him in the coach when going to the College , but did not see them again . |
| 20 | Joe was remembering how he thought he heard someone behind him when he was carrying Dolly through Newington Butts . |
| 21 | And er he thought he was the bee 's knees you see , he thought he knew everything about railways . |
| 22 | He knew they soiled themselves with one another . |
| 23 | Shiona sensed that he knew she had something on her mind . |
| 24 | He liked that contempt , that resentment ; the first time he saw it in the boy 's face he knew it reminded him of something , but it was weeks before it came to him what it was . |
| 25 | But he insisted he knew nothing about either the debt or the court case because the bill had not been sent to his home . |
| 26 | It was a debilitating time and he felt he survived it for two reasons — a ‘ rigorous regime ’ , which included a vegetarian diet , and the devoted nursing of his widowed landlady , Sarah Lordore ( or Lardeau ) at his lodgings in Stoke Newington . |
| 27 | It was one of his most fertile periods — he was n't a great letter-writer — too polite — he said she understood him in the letter I — I — saw — he said — ’ |
| 28 | He said she invited him to her flat , and then came at HIM with a knife . |
| 29 | What I did n't mention to him was Gilbert 's phone call where he said she rang him on Saturday evening and asked him about a box . ’ |
| 30 | He said I reminded him of her . |