Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [adv] he [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the open door of the shed he had a good view of Firelight grazing and she got to know where he was and would come up to the hedge close by and wait for titbits . |
| 2 | Endill tried to see where he was but it was too dark and he waited , not daring to move , for the Headmaster to put on the lights . |
| 3 | Tried to remember how he was supposed to feel . |
| 4 | So with Amyas 's long , damp fingers pressed against her eyes , Jennifer was led stumbling into the passage , and on the way up to the house Sir Gregory tried to think how he was going to pacify his wife , who had never been able to forgive him for his infidelity and who had always resented the presence of his bastard 's daughter under her roof when she came to hear Mass . |
| 5 | He was hatless , and passers-by looked curiously at this young man who seemed to know where he was going , yet strode absently . |
| 6 | He never quite seemed to know where he was going , or why . |
| 7 | Her uncle sat at his workbench looking vague , as though he 'd forgotten why he was there . |
| 8 | ‘ Better than nothing , ’ said Harvey , who never seemed to care where he was or what he was doing . |
| 9 | How she 'd discovered where he was unloading his balls was academic . |
| 10 | She turned to look where he was pointing . |
| 11 | When he got called up he was good as the best of them . |
| 12 | A Ministry of Defence spokesman said yesterday that he appeared to have fallen from one of the offices on the third floor , but declined to surmise why he was visiting the Admiralty . |
| 13 | Robert began showing when he was 18 , and introduced Rosemary to exhibiting when they met in 1970 . |
| 14 | Norman Tulip , former secretary of the association , declined to say why he was quitting . |
| 15 | He turned on his own torch and started wondering how he was going to get out . |
| 16 | He decided to stay where he was . |
| 17 | He decided to stay where he was to see what would happen . |
| 18 | Alexei was surprised that Jotan appeared to know where he was going . |
| 19 | He sat with his arms folded , staring down at the fancy tablecloth and when he did speak again he was so quiet that they could hardly hear him , so they had to listen seriously — even Sean and Michael , who were never , or rarely serious . |
| 20 | The late autumn and winter again aggravated his emphysema and he looked tired and pale.Although he preferred to stay where he was , his doctor insisted that he travel once more to the sun for the worst of the winter , and at the end of 1960 the Eliots went to Jamaica . |
| 21 | Because he concentrated on a single target while the Russians played their world-wide game , they sometimes failed to notice where he was pulling their fingers . |
| 22 | As Mr Leslie had explained earlier he was completely sober and was not given to imagination , he screwed his eyes up looking for the reason for the footsteps ; he could n't see the feet but heard them quite distinctly passing him in the ballast below . |
| 23 | While the silence lengthened , he reflected upon the cruelty of Fate : had he but waited , had he refused to give in to Ann 's pleadings , he might even now be in a position to make Martha his own ; but as things had turned out he was saddled with a wife he did not love and would never love — however many sons she bore him . |
| 24 | From what Pavel had said earlier he was working his way around the country , from station to station , leaving exactly the same message at each . |
| 25 | and I , I showed her around some I , on the way back I said I 'll take you to Branston Park on the way back and I 'll show you where John 's working and I took her on to the , into the car park and I said look there he is up , huh , cutting the lawn , he was up cutting that , the big lawn she said one massive place I mean I took her all the way through Branston Park back to erm |
| 26 | Some of the cognoscenti had recognised why he was wearing the deaf-aid , but for the majority , it just seemed to be part of the character , justified by a couple of new lines . |
| 27 | Afterwards he had to explain why he was there , and found it hard . |
| 28 | You know simple language , they wanted to know where he was coming from , but Jesus it says would not say a word in answer to any of those accusations , but then the High Priest says are you the Messiah , the Son of the Blessed God . |
| 29 | He wanted to stay where he was . |
| 30 | His mother said he was not happy about the new school , and wanted to stay where he was . |