Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he got called up he was good as the best of them . |
| 2 | When he 'd hung up I got dressed . |
| 3 | When he 'd calmed down she said : ‘ If whores do n't get no respect they should at least get paid the rate for the job . ’ |
| 4 | When Raymond came and did the windows last week , he said he 'd booked up I |
| 5 | But she knew that in the last resort if he did I would do it , but he 's , he 's paid off now as soon as he 'd paid off he went on the dole again |
| 6 | I left the bike in the shed and watched him from the shed door for a while , poised so that if he happened to wake up it would look as though I was just in the act of shutting the door . |
| 7 | Next time he went to sign on he armed himself with a photocopy of the relevant pages . |
| 8 | The way he kept hanging about him , Quentin wondered if he had perhaps decided to become a clergyman again . |
| 9 | The doctor , however , acted in ways he found wholly admirable , and he thought that when he did get out he would apply his methods of handling patients — getting hold of them firmly and putting them into the right positions — to the positioning of his models . |
| 10 | He was so astonished that for a few seconds he stood where he was and when he did turn round he could see the top of the wall , the delicate pattern of wire mesh against the sky , and hear running footsteps . |
| 11 | His name was Marlon Brando , and his crimes against the establishment were to be rude to influential columnists , to fail to turn up at functions ( and when he did turn up he wore T-shirt and jeans ) , and publicly to deplore Hollywood and its natives . |
| 12 | I had decided that I had to face up to the fact that John might not come back or he might be gone for a long time and that when he did come back we might not love one another . |
| 13 | Now he had gone up she need n't modify her actions to spare his feelings . |
| 14 | A double-furrow plough would take a great chunk of the money in his possession , and he had worked out it would need at least four great horses , not three , to carry out the intended task . |
| 15 | Oliver had his own ideas on this , which he could hardly put to Mrs Figgis-Hewett ; they involved her dramatic appearance before the dinner began when he had worked out she could have added something to Sir Thomas 's drink in the confusion . |
| 16 | But now that they had reached the road at the dale head , he wanted to turn down it and go home . |