Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] [pron] [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aloud he said he would stay for another night and take her place on the constituency slate . |
| 2 | It was just that suddenly he felt he could not look up , that he could n't , as he put it , either stand it any longer , or stand any longer . |
| 3 | She had often tired him with her chatter , with her bursts of personal revelations , ‘ Today I feel this — yesterday I felt that , ’ but suddenly he wished she would talk to him . |
| 4 | Only he said he would return forthwith and I was surprised at his continued absence . ’ |
| 5 | Perhaps he thought I might have an interesting story to tell . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , but perhaps he thought I might meet some wealthy man who would instantly fall in love with me and so relieve him of some of the responsibility , ’ she retorted , too angry to even think what she was saying , and then gave a derisive smile when she saw that he was half tempted to believe it . |
| 7 | Perhaps he thought I could n't lie in bed with my clothes on . |
| 8 | ‘ Perhaps he thought I 'd make the rehearsals lively . |
| 9 | Perhaps he thought it might make me nip up a bit quicker with his morning tray . ’ |
| 10 | wanted that old , is it , the rag and bone people , you know , rubbish , and er I suppose somebody taught him and er he , he played in that and er you know did the little towns and the vic the vicar used to come and sit at the back , a seat under against , under the window and watch , perhaps he thought he 'd er get some little co |
| 11 | this was on , in the morning , in the afternoon they said his leg would deteriorate , they 've got to take the whole leg off so he said we 'll give it another go and see what happens , course by this time he said the operation has n't |
| 12 | So he said it would n't involve much , but to run a fete does involve a lot of work . |
| 13 | So he said I ca n't go along and bother a busy man when it 's feeling much better . |
| 14 | So he said I should forget it . |
| 15 | So he said I can honestly say he said I think he 's one of the worst I 've ever had down there . |
| 16 | So he said there must be there must be extra letters in there . . |
| 17 | So he said you 'll have to stay in then wo n't ya ? |
| 18 | We all it is ba , well I say all it is this bloody great strip right be between the ceiling and the walls , the right length of corridor and the manager see it and he said look that should be shiny sort of like and it 's all pitted so he said you 'll have to go up here he said and do it all with steel abrasive said fair enough . |
| 19 | So he said you could n't have done ! |
| 20 | And so he decided he could get about three caravans on the the price that my bungalow was occupying . |
| 21 | Far away he thought he could see some goats grazing . |
| 22 | Legend has it that Rawlins remembered the lot although yesterday he confessed he might have forgotten one . |
| 23 | If he could not come home he knew he would die , too . |
| 24 | Of course , when he got home he found they would n't fit into his console ! |
| 25 | says explaining why he had come to earth Jesus told the Roman governor Pontius Pilate , will thus I 've been born and for this purpose I have come out of the world that I should bear witness to the truth , but what particular truth was Jesus sent to earth to make no man , first just about his heavenly father , he taught his followers to pray that his father name be hallowed or hell holy and he prayed , I have made your name manifest to the man you gave me , also he said I must declare the good news with the kingdom of God , because for this I was sent forth , so what truths did Jesus come to er , to tell ? |
| 26 | At first he thought an adult must have caused them but now he thought she could have been dropped by a child . |
| 27 | Now he knew he could not . |
| 28 | Now he knew he could n't manage without a butler . |
| 29 | He had wondered how the KGB would react to the Reznichenko Memorandum ; now he saw they must have been analysing the pattern long before it had occurred to him . |
| 30 | Well , the people were so impressed they , you could have heard a pin drop in that hall , and he really in our Welsh way he put it over proper you know and erm the Chairman made a quite a nice remark in the end he said , Now he said we must remember these two fellows here , I said , They are Welsh and they speak Welsh as their first language they do n't speak it for fancy they use it every day and he said I think they 've done exceedingly well er to come down here and give us the Because what happen I was sit in the front row and somebody asked me a question and he said , Perhaps er Dafydd there can answer . |