Example sentences of "[verb] he [verb] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er and this this case the there was a fire in a flat , the chap had gone out to work , we did n't know he 'd gone out to work , so we broke First of all we informed the fire brigade was on the way , we broke down the door , quick look in the flat , best possible way we could look , and the fire brigade turned up and dealt with the flat . |
| 2 | ‘ I did n't know he 'd gone anywhere ! ’ |
| 3 | He could have got one from the kitchen , but I expect he 'd locked up after he 'd brought the supper up . ’ |
| 4 | And I expect he 's gone away to get them printed now |
| 5 | ‘ I expect he 's gone home . ’ |
| 6 | Craig , who joked he had built up his body with steroids , said : ‘ I may be big but I am losing my hair . ’ |
| 7 | Shildon closed in on them and mentioned he had arrived late because Wickham had wanted to question him . |
| 8 | She knew Eddie 's gambling had had disastrous consequences for her family , but it had been a terrible shock to discover he had taken so much from his best friend as well . |
| 9 | So it was no surprise to find he had moved in . |
| 10 | When he jumped down some twenty minutes later , I found he had chewed away a large portion of my cashmere sweater . |
| 11 | He found he had taken on more than he bargained for . |
| 12 | She looked at the baby , also drenched in tears , and found he had come back to life . |
| 13 | ‘ She found he 'd drawn out quite a lot of money on Friday , from two building society accounts they 've got . |
| 14 | And this man used to go up , do you know I 've heard my father say he 's come up three or four times a week and help him and when they slaughtered the things they used to have the slaughterhouse down the piste years ago , as I 'm talking about sixty , sixty , seventy years ago , sixty years ago , where they used to slaughter the stuff , you see , down the piste and this was the Christmas show this was , all these hindquarters of beef . |
| 15 | If Stone believed he had slipped quietly away to the phone box , he had underestimated — or forgotten — the pursuit abilities of CI5 . |
| 16 | But , in Briggs words , ‘ there is no reason in principle why one can not have the best of both worlds ’ , he believed he had found just that in Sanskrit — a bridge between natural and artificial languages . |
| 17 | And each time Dexter believed he had come closer to Blanche , understood her better , and liked her more . |
| 18 | Had to wait for James , I had n't noticed he 'd gone past |
| 19 | He does not see himself as having sold out ; he says he got fed up with magazine editors wanting throwaway images . |
| 20 | MP Tony Fable says he 's quit so he can have his say on Europe . |
| 21 | He said I do n't know , he says he 's gone out with some girl called . |
| 22 | He says he 's had not nearly enough sex education at school , he could n't talk to his parents about it and boys just do n't speak to their mates when it comes to something so intimate and private . |
| 23 | Mr Kirk says he 's had very few complaints about the letter . |
| 24 | a driver says he 's got not idea how fast he goes … it takes him hundred of hours to get ready and then they come out and smash it up … there must be some logic he says … |
| 25 | Alternatively the Director General may confirm he has decided not to refer the agreement to the Court where : ( a ) any directly applicable provision of EC law applies to the agreement ; ( b ) the agreement has expired or has been terminated ; ( c ) all the relevant restrictions have been removed ; ( d ) the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry has discharged the Director General from his duty to take proceedings where he is satisfied that the restrictions are not of such significance as to call for investigation by the Court . |
| 26 | When he judged he had gone far enough he crept cautiously out to where the trees were more sparse . |
| 27 | The equally obvious fact that she had clearly felt he 'd married well beneath him — and into a family of which she had already disapproved — was something that Laura had n't known how to deal with . |
| 28 | The young Southampton prospect did accumulate a 5–2 lead in the second set , but tentative returns enabled the 25 year old Swede to claim five consecutive games , robbing Wilkinson of the Masters singles title he had worked so diligently for . |
| 29 | From his wording , it would appear he has picked up these rumours secondhand from somewhere . |
| 30 | cause he 's come right across the |