Example sentences of "he came [adv] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he came nearer I could see that he was wearing a velveteen suit which was full of holes and splattered with wet clay . |
| 2 | As he came closer he saw the old Georgian mansion was illuminated with lights in all the windows . |
| 3 | She did not say more and when he came closer he saw that if it was sleep that had found her it was of a troubled nightmare kind , the sleep of the ill and the stressed . |
| 4 | As he came closer he could hear the driver arguing with the gatekeeper . |
| 5 | But as he came closer I saw that he was not asking a question . |
| 6 | After that whenever he came near she warned him off with bared teeth . |
| 7 | When he came downstairs he offered me £90 for a small china ornament . |
| 8 | Well I did we we talked about this , you see Mary Anne , half way through the conversation er Neil went out of the room so that I could to Mary Ann and I said towards the end of my conversation , you know , Mary Ann you 're a very wise person , give me some advice I said , I told her about Neil not wanting no not doing well on the driving , although he can drive she said he does n't want to do it she said do n't hassle him so when he came downstairs I said I 've been talking to Mary Ann and she sends you her love and because , of course , you know , we 've got a grandson , you know she had a son , my |
| 9 | He beat her easily at chess the following week , but when he came again she had been thinking and remembering . |
| 10 | When he came home we saw each other often . |
| 11 | The V bomb , V bombers and the doodlebugs and er when he came home it was nineteen forty six I think or seven er , my fath er my mother had died and my father wanted to get away from the place we were in and we said oh well go ahead you know , we 'll easily get somewhere and of course we did n't and they put us in a Nissan hut , which we made absolutely beautiful , we did all sorts of things to it and had a lovely garden all around it and the people from the Council use to come around and say to us oh well you do n't need to be rehoused because you 've made this so very nice you see , anyway I then started to work for the Corporation and then there was the possibility of course |
| 12 | Well I think he said they 've gone up twenty when he came home I 'm not sure |
| 13 | When he came home he was distant and vague , and preoccupied , and in the end I accused him of having a mistress . ’ |
| 14 | Every time he came home he had to scoop them off the surface . |
| 15 | When he came home he found her peering into the well of his top hat . |
| 16 | ‘ When he came home he was cold , starving and very upset , ’ she said . |
| 17 | ‘ When he came home he had to leave the army , you see . |
| 18 | When he came home he was messing about on pavement for quite a while , I was , I thought somebody was trying to get in , you know |
| 19 | Chris had written a letter to Tina Jelly in Aldershot saying that he still loved her and missed her a lot , but was sure that until he came home she would be able to go out with his mates from the Royal Signals . |
| 20 | Last time he came home she said if things went on as they are for much longer he 'd lose the manor and the farm on the turn of a card ! ’ |
| 21 | As he came close she started to urinate , the stream trickling through the rush seating and darkening the carpet . |