Example sentences of "[conj] he [vb past] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where he stayed none seemed sure , for he was mute ; or appeared to he , and he appeared — for all his child-gazing — as harmless . |
| 2 | I took notice of him 'cause he knew everything about football as well as boxing . |
| 3 | This last remark strangely made him brighten up , although he said nothing , |
| 4 | John Nutting , prosecuting , said that although he said nothing to detectives after his arrest , with a lock knife in his hand , they later found a chilling message daubed on his police cell wall . |
| 5 | ‘ Much obliged for that , Albert , ’ said Joe , and explained that he 'd got a guest and how it came about , although he said nothing about the wallet or the men . |
| 6 | She felt that the atmosphere between them was suddenly much easier although he said nothing for a moment but kept on looking at her as if he were turning something over in his mind . |
| 7 | Although he ate nothing afterwards he continued to gain weight thanks to the presence of the Troll flesh . |
| 8 | He had something of the solitary about him , something of the dreamer , although he had none of the dreamer 's physical clumsiness . |
| 9 | When the rebels formed a provisional National Defence Junta a week after the start of the rising , Franco was not a member , although he became one a few weeks later . |
| 10 | Nigel Clogstoun-Willmott went back to his planning duties , although he did one more beach reconnaissance ahead of ships ' detachments of Royal Marines landing on Kupho island ( off Crete ) in a modest raid that destroyed a radar station , and might have brought back code books had not their metal safe been lost as a ship 's boat tilted in being hauled aboard a destroyer gathering speed . |
| 11 | ‘ Although he did something to his knee on the Monday after the Chelsea match with us , he met up with England on Friday and I 'm told , trained Saturday , Sunday , Monday , and Tuesday . |
| 12 | He said that he heard something like and mum and dad said he saw you and he said , hope she 's gon na tape it . |
| 13 | Before the storm broke he fell into a sleep so peaceful and deep that he heard nothing of the thunder crashing overhead or of the rush of waters as the lake filled and spread and crept and grew like a living thing . |
| 14 | It must have been then , in a final flush of family feeling , that he made everything over to Nigel . ’ |
| 15 | Ince was lucky in that he made lots of fouls , but the ref played advantage on some and then forgot about them . |
| 16 | A quick glance at him showed her that he thought nothing at all of a drive like this , clinging to the mountainside and driving much too fast . |
| 17 | It is recorded that on 4 January 1965 ‘ Mr R J Henderson said that he thought something should be done to start a Building Fund . ’ |
| 18 | They had made love , and it had been so utterly different from his other experiences of sex that he thought something wonderful had happened . |
| 19 | She had also caught the very faint remnant of warmth , gaiety , that he thought no-one but himself had recognized from the old days . |
| 20 | Sid was keeping a close eye on Mr Didier ; not that he thought anyone would try to poison him , but you never knew , when the likes of Peckham were around . |
| 21 | And things have changed since he got remaindered , but I 've got this feeling — call it a detective 's intuition — that he left something of himself behind . |
| 22 | ‘ You are quite sure that he said nothing to you which might provide us with a clue to the killer ? ’ |
| 23 | She was thankful that he said nothing to express the inner rage he must be feeling . |
| 24 | I can not quite recall what he said ; it may be that he said nothing , which , rather than utter anything trite , he sometimes preferred to do . |
| 25 | It was only after he had asked for the bill that he said something that had her on guard again , although there was nothing about his lazy , ‘ Enjoy the party , did you , by the way ? ’ that should have caused her muscles — including her tongue muscles , it seemed — to instantly tighten . |
| 26 | " I did n't really notice that he said anything about me , dear . " |
| 27 | It seemed to them that he said anything that came into his head . |
| 28 | ‘ But I do n't think , ’ said Robert , with heavy sarcasm , ‘ that he said anything about women having four husbands . |
| 29 | That he fucked everyone , that he was difficult to work with . |
| 30 | Gombert 's linear sense — and sometimes Crecquillon 's and Lupi 's was so strong that he cared nothing for the asperities of harsh suspensions or accented passing-notes , as in this passage from his motet , ‘ Ave sanctissima Maria ’ : |