Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The word cottage conjured up in his mind the Smiths ' dwelling ; but a few minutes later , when he saw what she had called a cottage , he realised it was far removed from the Smiths ' dwelling as Screehaugh had been , in that it was a substantially built house . |
| 2 | He smiled to himself as he realised he was practically running . |
| 3 | Anger did n't suit her friendly snub face , making her seem out of place in that aloofly cut suit and he realised he was mentally taking it off her . |
| 4 | He took one bottle out to put his own in , took another one out to put a second one in , and this proceeded up the line and down the next until he realised he was always left with one in hand . |
| 5 | Well , the city was n't a nice place to live because of all the silly laws the merchant had passed , and people started to leave it and go to other towns and other countries , and the merchant was spending so much time passing new laws and trying to make people obey the ones he 'd already passed that his own business started to fail , and eventually the city was almost deserted , and the merchant found that he owed people much more money than he had in the bank , and even though he sold his house and everything he owned he was still broke ; he was thrown out of his house and out of the city too , because he had become a beggar , and beggars were n't allowed in the city . |
| 6 | Well , it turned out he used to be a ‘ pretty successful writer ’ , but then he found he was just getting into ‘ things that were too weird . ’ |
| 7 | Arthritic and near blind , he found he was also suffering from cancer and in human years would have been aged around 90 . |
| 8 | He found he was fully clothed under the duvet . |
| 9 | He found he was still standing there some minutes later , not because the traffic had been particularly heavy — there had been several opportunities to cross — but because he was lost in thought about what he had seen . |
| 10 | After the war , Bomber Harris tried to get an issue of a campaign medal for the ground crews on operational airfields , as he maintained they were completely ignored when the medals were handed out . |
| 11 | The room in which he received them was sparsely furnished , despite his wealth . |
| 12 | He imagined she was still dwelling on the accident . |
| 13 | He imagined she was merely indulging Ana . |
| 14 | His eyes gleamed , but he imagined it was still to do with the vistas shown to the merchant by the Genius of Riches . |
| 15 | Assuming the Turkey Pens had been situated at the rear of the house , he reckoned he was now heading for the outer fence somewhere off to the north side of the grounds . |
| 16 | ‘ He replied he was only doing his best . |
| 17 | For the best part of an hour he exposed what was really going on in the international motor industry . |
| 18 | While he went in search of the water , she locked herself furiously in the bathroom to don a baggy navy and white striped T-shirt nightdress , and by the time he returned she was safely hidden underneath the printed white bedspread . |
| 19 | Leopold was sitting only two boxes away from the beautiful Princess of Wurttemburg , and he confessed he was so moved by the magical instrumental interplay that , for ‘ sheer delight ’ , tears sprang to his eyes . |
| 20 | He looked as if he thought I was deliberately sabotaging his modern dress Paul et Virginie . |
| 21 | Just when he thought he was there to stay . |
| 22 | He was in for a big surprise if he thought he was still dealing with the impressionable , easygoing young girl he had married ! |
| 23 | He thought he was never going to be able to get it out of his mind . |
| 24 | His old worries about his heart had come back , and he thought he was maybe starting an ulcer . |
| 25 | Although his aunts had always been kind to him , Frankie tried his best not to like them because he knew they were only pretending to be nice . |
| 26 | They could talk all they wanted about incorrectly filled-out forms , wrong addresses and the like ; he knew what was really going on . |
| 27 | George had a discreet nature and he knew what was better left unsaid in public . |
| 28 | That look of sympathy deepened in his eyes , as if he knew she was just casting around desperately to try and outrun the turmoil of her own feelings . |
| 29 | But the moment passed , for there was something in her grasp of his legs that was so awkward , so inexperienced , and the pitch of her entreaties remained so anguished that he knew she was only doing what she imagined might persuade him to help her ; and a wave of self-loathing washed over him , that a woman like her could think of a man like him in such a light . |
| 30 | ‘ It is , ’ he mused evenly , and she had the uneasy feeling that he knew she was deliberately trying to change the subject . |