Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he surfaced he saw it about ten metres away . |
| 2 | Downstairs , in the little stationery shop at the back which her father had started in a small way as a trial , and which had become so successful that sometimes he joked it financed everything else , was a safe full of cash . |
| 3 | He says they picked it up on the radar and had to take evasive action . |
| 4 | He says it took him about a year to recover but now he 's fine here . |
| 5 | he reckons he held it around , he 's a real pain in the arse at times |
| 6 | When he returned he surveyed me again . |
| 7 | Course , I was looking out the window and I know he took I picked it out and it I looked again , there 's another one in there , course she 's only getting out the bath put them in a bowl like I was ! |
| 8 | When we met I told him that I did not think he had anything more urgent to attend to , and if he thought he had something more important , then his priorities were wrong . |
| 9 | He thought he had it pretty clear from Peter 's testimony that Place had indeed fired first and that the boy knew it . |
| 10 | He thought he had it now . |
| 11 | My father was always very distant with me — so that when he died I felt I hardly knew him . |
| 12 | Before he died he asked us not to make a formal complaint , that was the sort of man he was . ’ |
| 13 | Though he had been in the district for no more than a week , he felt he knew it well . |
| 14 | He did n't say much , but when he did it knocked you off your feet . |
| 15 | As the years went by , Dexter saw the look less frequently but when he did it irked him as much as ever . |
| 16 | The look he gave her decided her not to press him . |
| 17 | His order has been obeyed if the person to whom he gave it did something correctly described by the words of the order . |
| 18 | He realizes he left it behind because he does n't really want to go to John 's . |
| 19 | He said er we had a big hoo hah he said er I borrowed some money off him he said some time ago to do something with and I had n't got the money he said and when I sold the plot of land he said I paid him back what I owed him cos borrow the money . |
| 20 | One day I asked him if he knew Fanny 's young man , and he said he knew him as well as he knew himself ! ’ |
| 21 | He said he felt he often failed and yet it was important to keep on trying . |
| 22 | He said he thought it very good advice but would not take it . |
| 23 | So he said he rung him back six o'clock that night and he 'd sort of calmed down a bit . |
| 24 | Every time he said he said I never had a ba tin of baked beans my God ! |
| 25 | He said he lost them about a week ago and heard today that a set which might have been his had been used by that psychic woman . |
| 26 | But he said he reckoned they probably shot a bit wide , and anyway the officers would see that they tried , and it was better to be shot by the other side rather than your own . |
| 27 | Well on the Wittering job he said he wanted somebody there you know er myself as manager to oversee the job but on the Sheffield Wednesday job , incidentally I 'd I got the contract from them both , the Sheffield Wednesday job was done I 'd only ever had to visit it once and that was at my request not at anybody else 's and either way both erm the Wittering and the Sheffield Wednesday er there have been other drivers going . |
| 28 | He said he remembered her well , hoped she was flourishing , and had I not better get off to my supper ? |
| 29 | He said he loved me again . |
| 30 | ‘ did unlawfully , wilfully and ’ This point will depend on the circumstances of each case , but if the accused has done the same act on a number of occasions , if he admits he did it intentionally or if he draws attention to himself etc. then unlawful and wilful conduct may be proved . |