Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a time he nerved himself to say to a couple of youngish men , ‘ Have you heard at all about a man called Menzies ? |
| 2 | Finally he nerved himself and confessed about his visions . |
| 3 | He threaded it through the bunkers into the heart of the green . |
| 4 | The door was held open for him , and he threaded his way through all the backstage equipment . |
| 5 | His movements were slow and deliberate as he threaded his fingers through the tangled strands , his eyes on his task , and Hilary forgot to breathe altogether , almost terrified by his touch . |
| 6 | When she just kept on looking at him he threaded his hands in her hair and let it drift through his fingers , watching the deep red glow in the lights . |
| 7 | The fitful moonlight was bright enough to see by , so he did n't bother to use his torch as he threaded his way forward through the trees . |
| 8 | At Love Field , a tin-pot airport outside Dallas , very late one night , he made what can only be described as a solicitation by prayer . |
| 9 | When he made what may be argued were his next intellectually significant appearances , in 1923 at the Peasant International and in 1924 at the Fifth Congress of the Communist International , he had moved on from the French Communist Party and was now accepted in Russia as a revolutionary of considerable promise . |
| 10 | All the available evidence suggests , then , that on occasions he made what were then fashionably anti-semitic remarks to his close friends . |
| 11 | When he saw Robert , he made what looked like a little , stunted bow and moved back towards the boys on the lawn . |
| 12 | In 1604 James I of England published his famous Counterlaste to Tobacco in which he made what was probably the earliest statement on the effects of smoling on gastric secretion : ‘ … and by causing over quick digestion , fill the stomach full of crudites . ’ |
| 13 | One point he made which I have rarely seen put forward so well : that the audience can not be expected to follow any profound drama at all levels at once , and that there may be certain aspects which remain beyond the audience 's comprehension altogether . |
| 14 | to all er o o on both sides , erm there 's one point he made which is terrible important which is that the costs of this statutory instrument and all the guidelines and rules and regulations and orders that flow from it , will not impact onto small b business because that was the key to the deregulation bill and I wonder whether the deregulation unit has looked at this and whether it is satisfied it 's not gon na be an additional cost onto the running of small enterprise . |
| 15 | He made something up . |
| 16 | He made something of a jovial name for downright failure : a big , heavy man ( probably seventeen stone ) , he barely averaged more than four runs an innings and he took only eight wickets in his long but profoundly uneventful playing career . |
| 17 | Amanullah had been influenced by what he saw as the modernising reforms introduced in Turkey and Iran : he tried to build up a central army , organised a parliament , and decreed that women should wear western dress : the final straw for the tribes came when he made their leaders listen to a five-day speech . |
| 18 | When God made the plants that are on this Earth , first He made their stalks and leaves . |
| 19 | He made their blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah blah . |
| 20 | He made their glowing colours he made their tiny wings |
| 21 | He made their glowing colours he made their tiny wings |
| 22 | glowing colours he made their tiny wings |
| 23 | He made him wash dishes . ’ ) . |
| 24 | He did not doubt for an instant that once he explained things to his brother , once he made him see what assets were available and how they could be used , Jean-Paul would rise from his lethargy and be as engaged , as excited , and as determined , as Edouard . |
| 25 | He made him successively Bishop of Chichester , of Ely and of Winchester , as well as Lord Almoner , and a member of the Privy Council . |
| 26 | He removed a lot of the stones , and then John poured the stones he made him |
| 27 | Brigadier Mills Roberts was staring at me — he made me feel guilty . |
| 28 | Andy Ripley is mad , mad , mad , but he made me laugh . |
| 29 | ‘ He told me that all his life he was such a shit , and he finally realized he could make someone as happy as he made me , ’ recalls Joey . |
| 30 | He made me give him Celia 's address , and he wrote to her and said I should not be working and living alone at my age . |