Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] he [verb] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A couple of months ago he took her out for a meal and she tried to kiss him . |
| 2 | Two months ago he put it on the market for £2 million . |
| 3 | It described the high that ensues from smoking crack ( 'Crack is both spacey and intense' ) and the downs that follow ; it told his readers how he bought it and what the morning after was like . |
| 4 | He ate his meals with them , and could n't believe his eyes when he saw them saying grace . |
| 5 | Even Sal and Kitty turned up their noses when he offered them such delicacies as black bananas and bruised apples . |
| 6 | It was music to a Scotsman 's ears when he said he owed everyone in Scotland a drink , but many were sure it was only an empty promise uttered in the heat of the moment . |
| 7 | His fingers linked with hers , drawing them to his lips where he turned them to kiss her open palm . |
| 8 | Where before he went off at obtuse tangents , now he takes the songs where he wants them to go rather than let them control him . |
| 9 | So to shut the parents up he says I 'm going to marry you . |
| 10 | Three decades late he spoke it for his parents and his siblings , thinking that the kindly keeper who bent over him was perhaps , after all , SS Sergeant Gustav Wagner , or SS Sergeant Karl Frenzel or … |
| 11 | Social ostracism followed outbursts of silliness , hubby drank a lot , did n't hit her often but did bad-mouth her excessively , and took up fishing ; went away for weekends with male friends she 'd never heard of , Claimed to be tackling rivers but kept bringing home filleted sea fish on the Sunday night , and was always suspiciously careful to empty his pockets when he gave her his clothes to wash . |
| 12 | Well he , he , he given them a free cup of coffee it 'll be alright , but he did n't , he gave , the machine took ten P pieces so he provided them with the ten P pieces to put in and then when it was full up he 'd empty it out and give them all ten P pieces back |
| 13 | ‘ A few days later he told me that he 'd been to Cintra 's with her . |
| 14 | Two days later he tells me : ‘ It 's like they want to copy everything down to the smallest detail . |
| 15 | A few days later he asked her again . |
| 16 | Four days later he asked her out to dinner , and she walked home without her feet touching the pavement . |
| 17 | Days later he had it all planned after studying the brochures . |
| 18 | Two days later he granted me a private audience , a remarkable consideration during those eventful days to his youngest and least important guest . |
| 19 | A few days later he joined her . |
| 20 | Three days later he rang me at my sock . |
| 21 | Having only done a few short walks before in true Water & Ventilation style he decided to ‘ test the water ’ first by walking the Ridgeway in Wiltshire , 85 miles and five days later he completed it . |
| 22 | So I told him all I found out like , when he came down a few days later he gave me two fifty , er two pound ten as it was then you know I was amazed at |
| 23 | But three weeks later he put it back on the market . |
| 24 | Nearly two years later he told me that in each of those ten Crusades , people on the committees had said that , although everyone had agreed on certain tasks to be done , they only actually got cracking on them a couple of days before I was due back ! |
| 25 | When he died six years later he left her all his gardening books : not just the technical instruction manuals , but coffee-table picture books , historical studies and a collection of exquisite , hand-tinted Victorian flower drawings , and a Beatrix Potter original which , she now knew , would keep Maggie in shoes for the rest of her childhood if Phoebe could have brought herself to sell it . |
| 26 | A few years later he accepted it himself . |
| 27 | Three years later he sold it to Fletcher Challenge for £299 million — an eightfold increase . |
| 28 | But Richard had not forgotten and seventeen years later he wanted it remembered — however lightheartedly — that he had conquered there , too . |
| 29 | Two weeks ago he labelled them respectively ‘ the J R Ewing of Aberdeen ’ and a ‘ Victorian madam ’ . |
| 30 | ‘ Yes , years ago he told me you do n't say you love people . |