Example sentences of "[noun] [pers pn] [vb past] he [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I said I am the money I gave him his first flying lesson , I paid for it , like I bought his first three cars . |
| 2 | Over his post-prandial mug of tea I asked him what had brought him north so early this year . |
| 3 | When the police returned the car they told him there was nothing wrong with it and the engine was legitimate . |
| 4 | At lunch I told him I could see he was ashamed of what he was doing , and that it was n't too late . |
| 5 | After staying at Croisset she sent him her complete works ( in the 77-volume edition ) . |
| 6 | I told Phil I fancied him I went Phil , you 're my man . |
| 7 | Later in the evening I asked him what life in a prison camp was like . |
| 8 | For the twenty years I knew him he had been close to only three girls , maybe only one . ’ |
| 9 | On the way to Lass Lane they told him their names and he said his was Timothy Gedge . |
| 10 | From the very first day I saw him I began writing poems to him that later grouped themselves into the sequence entitled ‘ Suite Salmantina ’ which , with other poems about Spain , forms the central part of my collection called The Prodigal Son : Poems 1956–1959 . |
| 11 | And she said he got up and went off and to get things she said he he 's not too bad now , he said it 's getting better . |
| 12 | Tonight after supper I told him he could buy paper from Woolworths and use gloves and so on . |
| 13 | it did not pacify Madge , he wrote , and when he told her they could have another go at it the following month she told him she had had enough . |
| 14 | The morning she saw him she suddenly felt butterflies in her stomach . |
| 15 | When he caught Steve he asked him what he thought he was up to Well , said Steve , my mum and dad have split up . |
| 16 | When we had eaten in silence I asked him what the trouble was . |
| 17 | On the tests he gave him he was better on puzzles and patterns , poor on those involving speaking and understanding . |
| 18 | But earlier this year she told him she wanted a divorce . |
| 19 | But earlier this year she told him she wanted a divorce and flew back to Britain with her children , three year old Shaun and one year old Ashley . |
| 20 | ‘ Tomorrow 's always another day , ’ she said , trotting out one of her many sayings , and he neither smiled nor mocked at her , but went downstairs to eat the supper which she had prepared for him , because that was the way she showed him her love and concern , and the least which he could do was respond to it . |
| 21 | And Goldberg in the margin : for the whole of the time I knew him he had , stuck on his studio wall , a reproduction of Picasso 's amazing 1943 painting of the mother teaching her child to walk . |
| 22 | ‘ The first time I saw him we conversed very closely together ; and in the prospect of death he seemed solicitous to prepare for it . |
| 23 | I do n't know — the last time I saw him he was very curious about it , he was very proud of what I had done . |
| 24 | ‘ The last time I saw him he 'd been drinking pretty heavily and he pushed me about a bit . |
| 25 | The very first time I saw him he stopped on his way to the front door , three , maybe four in the morning . |
| 26 | Last time I saw him he did n't exactly approve of me . ’ |
| 27 | ( Last time I saw him there was in the first half vs Arse , where * Hodge * ! was given the right side … |
| 28 | And every time I told him I could n't hear voices , you should have seen the look of disappointment that came into his face . |
| 29 | last time I met him he was off sick . |
| 30 | As I said , part of Barny 's problem was that he 'd never had any contact with people at all , and by the time I got him it was too late . |