Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] [conj] he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got O and he got i |
| 2 | Norman , however , recollects that at first Minton did not take it very seriously ; but one evening , when the two men had arranged to meet in a pub before going to the opera , Norman arrived late , having spent the afternoon with Henrietta , and realised on seeing Minton that he had begun to feel left out . |
| 3 | ‘ My dad builds houses but he did n't build my house . |
| 4 | But he he did n't half make money cos he had nothing before that . |
| 5 | There was nothing we could make stick so he got away with it . ’ |
| 6 | Joshua , in order to be friendly , asked Harvey if he had heard of Clemenceau 's remark about Lloyd George , made at the Paris Peace Conference after the Kaiser 's War ? |
| 7 | Dunlop appeared to be catching Moodie and he had already put in that record lap of 115.62mph on lap three , but Moodie always had matters well in hand . |
| 8 | A concern with theological questions has sometimes prompted new lines of scientific inquiry , as when Richard Bentley ( 1662–1742 ) , wishing to use the latest science to defend his Christian theism , asked Newton whether he thought it possible that the frame of the world could have been produced , from a uniform distribution of matter , by mechanical principles alone . |
| 9 | In passing , Boswell asked McQueen whether he felt content as a clergyman on Skye , and the reverend man answered — or so Boswell interprets — that much of his satisfaction with his lot derived from his Skye ancestry . |
| 10 | I asked Gary and he said he 'd packed it in ages ago , and so did young Bean . |
| 11 | Owen distrusted castles unless he had had the ordering of them and the garrisoning for a year or more ; there was infinitely more safety in the hills , because the hills were his castle and not another man 's , and could not be betrayed or easily taken by storm . |
| 12 | Magistrates said they could disqualify him from driving and asked Elsworth if he needed his licence for his job . |
| 13 | The smell of freshly-fried falafels hung on the air , reminding Huy that he had not yet breakfasted . |
| 14 | There was a reporter and a photographer from the Financial Times waiting to interview Branson as he touched down . |
| 15 | The Mexican landed the better punches in the final round , catching Hardy as he became a trifle careless . |
| 16 | Connon had enough of himself left to give Jenny a sardonically accusing glance as he left the room with the doctor . |
| 17 | When they had exhausted politics , Julia asked David whether he had seen the recent report in The Times about the Allied commission which had been investigating Italians who had helped escaping prisoners of war . |
| 18 | He was sure he would damage Gleeson if he saw him . |
| 19 | John was supposed to come and meet me from work to carry my heavy shopping and then changed plans and he had just walked in with JONATHAN ( proper name JIMMY ) . |
| 20 | The King was in no position to make such a decision and , in any case , Baldwin had already decided to meet Parliament when he met the King on 10 December , and so the King did not even have to persuade him to adopt what he believed to be the correct course . |
| 21 | [ He says ] moreover that the testator 's intention , which is particularly important in trusts , supports this opinion , and that the testator would not , after this preamble , have added objects if he had wanted only cash to be paid . |
| 22 | As she stared into her bemused eyes , he slowly smiled , and in that moment she would have committed murder if he 'd asked her to . |
| 23 | I phoned Alan and he gave me his love and support . |
| 24 | He made loud wailing noises as he sailed back and forth over the wall , missing the top by inches . |
| 25 | Lennox-Boyd visited Accra in January 1957 to inform Nkrumah that he had to accept these provisions , or forgo independence . |
| 26 | Sarah told her that John was so discouraged by his failure to find work that he had decided to try elsewhere in the country . |
| 27 | Kettering persuaded him to come South and he helped them win the Southern League ( Eastern ) Championship in 1927–28 and 1928–29 . |
| 28 | ‘ In this case the doctor stopped work immediately he displayed any symptoms and has remained off work . ’ |
| 29 | This , combined with the previous episode , created suspicion that he had been malingering to avoid going into action and resulted in his being charged with cowardice . |
| 30 | The centre-piece of the first mini-drama in Kingston was Mike Gatting 's exploding nose as he missed an attempted hook off Marshall . |