Example sentences of "he [vb past] [conj] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Graham Shaw , then Group personnel Director , regarded the quality of search work he had experienced as satisfactory , without leaks or indiscretions ; he agreed that headhunters who could not be trusted would soon be finished . |
| 2 | When he realized that Hassan himself would not tell the Shah to go , Marenches offered to do it himself . |
| 3 | He was full of all the gossip and rumours , most of it picked up from the ships he visited and seamen he talked to . |
| 4 | He had been specifically accused of exceeding his authority ( i ) on Oct. 28 , 1988 , when he ordered police to use water cannon and tear gas against anti-government protesters [ see p. 37093 ] ; and ( ii ) on Jan. 15 , 1989 , when he ordered that demonstrators who did not obey an appeal to disperse should be taken out of Prague and abandoned without personal documents 30-50 km from the city [ see also p. 36400 ] . |
| 5 | He hated untidiness and waste ; he thought that babies who threw things from their cradles should be punished , and children who would n't eat their food should be starved until they ate what they had been given in the first place . ’ |
| 6 | Adam found himself not at all sure what rates were but he knew that people who owned houses did pay them . |
| 7 | She wondered if he remembered that time he had hummed that same song on the snow-covered terrace in Rocamar — it seemed so long ago now . |