Example sentences of "[art] things he [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of the things he said made no sense so they gave him a crack across the head and took him away . |
| 2 | Mr Evans 's voice boomed on about the things he had done when he was a boy — mostly earning money in his spare time to help his poor mother — but though Auntie Lou seemed to be listening , she was n't listening to him . |
| 3 | She had shot him for all the things he had done to her and her husband , shot him because , in the end , she still loved him , and it made his ultimate betrayal all the harder to bear . |
| 4 | Mother was surprised to see their visitor , but she thanked him again for the things he had sent when she was ill . |
| 5 | Last season a referee allowed himself to be wired up for a League match at The Den to record some of the things he had to put up with from players . |
| 6 | I wondered what he wanted , so I did it ; and in the interval of the rehearsal he came and said he was suffering from nervous shock because the moment I started he realized I was doing exactly the contrary of all the things he had taught the orchestra . |
| 7 | She could not know the things he had discovered about himself in the last few days . |
| 8 | Before , on the landing , the things he had said to her , thought of her … |
| 9 | When in 1918 the party needed a social programme for negotiations with Lloyd George , it was to the work of the USRC that they turned ; in 1922 Griffith-Boscawen was able as Minister of Health to do some of the things he had attempted in 1912 ; much of Neville Chamberlain 's work as a reformer of the Poor Law was presaged by a USRC report of 1913 written by Hills . |
| 10 | Dealing with people came naturally and was in many ways the most important part of the job , but there was more that could come only with experience , and Charles was there to pass on some of the things he had learned over thirty-three years , some of them the hard way . |
| 11 | One of the things he had learned since coming to Egypt was that the country had its rhythms and that if you were going to get anywhere you had to work with them and not against them . |
| 12 | His eyes were intently on her as he came back and he put the things he had brought on her dressing-table , ready to remove . |
| 13 | She stood in the foyer for a few minutes , jotting into her notebook the things he had told her . |
| 14 | He regaled them with his philosophies on life and on all the things he had read the night before . |
| 15 | He was growing like a beanshoot and most of the things he had had last summer were too small . |
| 16 | He turned away to the bedside table and found a souvenir sack of nickels from Las Vegas among the things he had unpacked from his pockets . |
| 17 | One of the things he 'd seen was cockroaches and the other was rats . |
| 18 | And he listened , he would n't really say what he had been doing , but later he showed me some of the things he 'd done in the Hebrides . |
| 19 | His wanting the wedding-dress was an excuse for saying all the things he 'd said . |
| 20 | She still went cold inside when she remembered the things he 'd said . |
| 21 | His behaviour , the things he 'd said , trying with her new knowledge of him to find flaws in his reasoning , and then wondered drearily why she bothered . |
| 22 | The worst part lay in facing up to the fact that some of the things he 'd said were true , much as she might try to deny it . |
| 23 | The things he 'd said , the things she 'd said … it had all gone round and round inside her head a hundred times . |
| 24 | A pink tinge coloured her cheeks as she remembered the things he 'd whispered to her while they 'd made love . |
| 25 | Being a banker was n't enough ; Lucenzo obviously coveted the things he 'd mentioned . |
| 26 | I would n't speak to him all the evening , or look at the things he 'd bought , even though I could see one of them was a picture-frame . |
| 27 | I unpacked all the things he 'd bought . |
| 28 | I mean , that , maybe that 's the way they do it , ai n't it , you know what I mean , they 'll say , he sometimes when you think of some of the things he does like that . |
| 29 | There is a kind of duty roster of the things he needs to do . |
| 30 | You do n't , that 's why I asked whether Richard could join your committee so that he could voice to you the things he tried to explain to me which I think are |