Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [subord] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles , Harold pointed out to himself , had nothing to lose when he married . |
| 2 | There was nothing to spare unless he used the rupee that he had been given for his own food . |
| 3 | Ken believed that Orton was the man to whom to go when he was down . |
| 4 | He needed hobdaying and was rather on the temperamental side , so she sent him to Bill and me to see if he had any ability in the dressage sphere . ’ |
| 5 | He makes me laugh cos he often says some , when I , it 's when I 've spoken to you on the phone |
| 6 | Matthew just made me laugh cos he said like |
| 7 | That erm , made me laugh because he said to his secretary erm you know , I I honestly do n't think your time is she is so down in the mouth . |
| 8 | Makes me laugh when he comes |
| 9 | Perhaps he only meant them to meet when he could fit her in with his other engagements . |
| 10 | ‘ You bastard , ’ one of them shouted as he raced after it . |
| 11 | I asked whether he thought he had the same difficulties as his father : |
| 12 | That reminds me : I asked whether he 'd heard anything within a few minutes of seeing young Hamnett , hoping he 'd say a shot , of course , which really would have been too good to be true . |
| 13 | In an intervention during the Home Secretary 's speech , I asked whether he had consulted or heard from the Prison Governors Association about the Bill . |
| 14 | When Leo told me , I asked if he had been able to give the message . |
| 15 | I asked if he knew what had happened to her . |
| 16 | I asked if he would like a coffee , or to be taken home , but he could only shake his head . |
| 17 | I asked if he had ever told his wife or anyone else about this before and his reply was , ‘ No ’ . |
| 18 | But I called him up one day and asked him how he was doing and he said things were pretty good , so I asked if he still wanted to do that album . |
| 19 | ‘ You must be joking , ’ a Russian friend said when I asked if he would watch the May Day parade on television . |
| 20 | When engaged in writing the naval history of the war , he had of course accumulated more material , both British and German , than he was ever able to use ; and one day over coffee at Cambridge I asked if he knew of any naval occasion of the Second World War which had not yet been told and which , in his view , ought to be . |
| 21 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 22 | I made no comment on this at the time ( though privately I thought it a brash boast ) but when we met for the interview I asked if he had brought the pendulum with him . |
| 23 | On another occasion , and because I felt he was a remote figure of whom the public knew nothing , I asked if he would be guest at an off-the-record private dinner-party to which I would invite half a dozen senior media people such as Robin Day , Perry Worsthorne of the Sunday Telegraph , and Tony Howard of the Observer for an exchange of views . |
| 24 | I asked if he wanted a drink . |
| 25 | I met him two or three years later when I asked if he would make me a dress for the March of Dimes , using some peony pink silk that Winston brought back from China . |
| 26 | I asked if he would swear a statement to this effect if it were necessary . |
| 27 | He returned with a symphonic battle piece , and when I asked if he realized the significance of the words he admitted he did not know what they meant ! ) |
| 28 | While waiting , I asked if he had many riverside cases . |
| 29 | He had a bag with him , a small suitcase really , so I asked if he was off on a late holiday . |
| 30 | ‘ Nothing — I asked if he knew if she 'd seen anyone in the hospital recently , before we contacted Records . |