Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ So Billy Tuckett gets badly scared and starts running for where he thinks his old friend Lucy Scarrott lives . ’ |
| 32 | In Norman Nicholson 's Lake District anthology , he is sensibly clear-headed about including his own work where he thinks it is useful . |
| 33 | He gives a running commentary on what is happening at the moment in the game but also gives a players history where he thinks it will help the reader to understand to a fuller extent what is happening in the play . |
| 34 | He does sometimes get into a ‘ delayed ’ mood where he thinks he has more time than he does … the reason for the square/back passes I reckon is noone moves into space for him or looks for it up front . |
| 35 | He 's run out of plaster and he 's got an urgent call somewhere where he thinks he 'll need it . |
| 36 | He held a hand to his chest where he carried his brother 's memory . |
| 37 | He got to his feet and walked on tip-toe to the kitchen door , where he pressed his face close to the crack , listening for any sound that might tell him what to expect . |
| 38 | Ill health later led him to spend some time in the Bristol area , where he cemented his friendship with William Wordsworth [ q.v. ] , whom he met in 1795 at a gathering of radical friends ( who included George Dyer , William Frend , William Godwin , and John Horne Tooke , qq.v . ) . |
| 39 | He had developed a terrible memory for who he drove and where he drove them to . |
| 40 | Then he would kiss it where he knew its mistress 's lips had been not long before ( the location of the kiss remains a matter of debate : some say on the muzzle , some say on the top of the head ) ; he would whisper in the shaggy ear of Nero ( or Thabor ) the secrets he longed to whisper in the ear that lay between the muslin dress and the straw hat ; and he would burst into tears . |
| 41 | Monks went off with his money to the other side of the world , where he spent it quickly and was soon in prison for another act of fraud . |
| 42 | With this he faced the world , soon gravitating to Soho and the French pub , where he spent his last pennies . |
| 43 | He never brought his friends to the house and she had never known where he spent his spare time . |
| 44 | Leavis 's reputation as a crabbed stylist and boldly innovative thinker who had been rejected by a university where he spent his entire life was largely a figment of his own mind , and so much of his post-war life was devoted to mythologising his own career that it is difficult , by now , to recognise what a conventional figure in his place and day he always was . |
| 45 | He had his own rooms in a separate part of the quinta , where he entertained his friends until late at night ; at meals he sometimes made a show of conversation with her , but otherwise they were as strangers . |
| 46 | If so , who was the other writer , and where can we find where he said it , and what references did he give for the statement ? |
| 47 | After a hour of simpering sycophancy from the presenter , the Prince took the viewer into his garden , where he said he loved to sit and think and talk to his plants . |
| 48 | Mr Gruson went upstairs where he said he was threatened by one of the gunmen . |
| 49 | We reached his office where he said he had some paperwork to complete before we stopped fairly soon for ten minutes at Kenora . |
| 50 | The next day they charged Barry Moxton with the murder of his wife Mary and there was a picture on the front pages of him being led away with a blanket over his head and another of a policeman coming out of his mother 's house with a plastic bag that was said to contain his bloodstained and half-burned clothing , and a day or so after that Uncle Titch turned up in South Wales with his horse and cart where he said he 'd gone after a merry-go-round and did n't know what all the fuss was about , did n't know about any murder , did n't read the papers and was generally believed , at least by the people on the estate , because it was typical of Uncle Titch , and by that time the Queerfella who was queerer than any of them knew had made a full confession and it was all over bar the shouting and the trial , when he pleaded guilty and was sent down for life and everyone said he should have been hanged and pretended it had never once crossed their minds that it was Uncle Titch that done it . |
| 51 | Something that was of interest was him mentioning a discussion with his wife , where he said he tells her he intends to retire at 55 . |
| 52 | What I did n't mention to him was Gilbert 's phone call where he said she rang him on Saturday evening and asked him about a box . ’ |
| 53 | No he did n't er P C found some trousers , I 'm not sure where he got them from er and put them on for him . |
| 54 | He insisted we join him for dinner where he regaled us with tidbits of gossip from the court and city . |
| 55 | He was educated at Jesus College , Cambridge , where he received his BA in 1636–7 and his MA in 1640 . |
| 56 | Where he received his training is not known — an apprenticeship in a professional architect 's office away from Kendal seems likely — but as he did not attend the Royal Academy Schools it was probably elsewhere in the north rather than in London . |
| 57 | His mother trekked North to the St Mary 's Anglican Mission station , where he received his education before going on to study at the Rorke 's Drift Art and Craft Centre in Natal . |
| 58 | I kissed the rose , and that night , in bed , I placed it where he desired me to . |
| 59 | A representative and influential attempt was made by Plekhanov in his essay , The Role of the Individual in History , where he considers what effect the characters of prominent people such as kings and statesmen have on the course of events . |
| 60 | I caught up with Dr Mawhinney at Deacon 's School , a local comprehensive , where he subjected himself to 45 minutes of questioning from 60 youngsters as part of an in-school mock election . |