Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 He is convinced this is the best Fermanagh side he has ever played on , and adamant that the county 's emergence is no overnight success .
2 A skill he has obviously picked up under the guidance of Dalglish .
3 He led me into the hut he had just come out of
4 So he looked behind himself and saw that the passage he had just come down was one of many , all wrinkled and wormy and dripping and tangled with roots , and he thought he could never find his way back so he must perforce push on and see what lay in store .
5 Friends from the council he had once served on .
6 Modigliani arrived with a box of paints and a canvas he had already worked on .
7 I put a lot of it down to Harry Enfield ; just this week he 'd really taken off .
8 It 's the first time in his career he has n't come out on top .
9 ‘ By nature Paul is a quiet , unassuming lad , but this season he has really come out of his shell and his game has improved no end .
10 As for that other one , which was how he now alluded to the daughter he had always doted on , she was in her room and there she would stay until she saw sense .
11 ‘ Please yerself , ’ answered Tom , but before he could warn Zach about the waterlogged floor he had already leapt down inside .
12 The whole truth of course he had not sussed out , for who could possibly imagine that luck of hers , which had caused the telephone to ring at precisely the right moment .
13 There was one thing he had n't lied about , and that was her blood , how much he 'd loved and honoured it , that was n't a lie .
14 It was the only thing he had ever stood out for .
15 And I do n't want you touching anything of mine , ’ she added fiercely , wrenching out of his hand a book he had just picked up .
16 I think er what the county council 's position is in terms of the statement he 's just read out it is that er the county council strategic framework , the structure plan alteration number three , the high fly policy which we discussed yesterday , is an attempt to address the needs of the districts and if we 've got this right then sufficient land should be identified or allocated to the districts within Policy I five .
17 Richie dialled the number he had never written down but always carried in his memory .
18 ( In good humour he has already turned back to the mime : the two SPIES awaiting execution at the hands of the PLAYER ) Audiences know what to expect , and that is all that they are prepared to believe in .
19 ‘ But this year he has just gone out and done the job .
20 But he may find his new sporting pursuits bunkered by some retirement activity he had n't planned on .
21 It is only a couple of years ago that Jenkins rejected out of hand the Wales involvement he has now taken on , and — until Davies and the Wales manager , Robert Norster , beat their path to his door — he has tended to use the expression ‘ poisoned chalice ’ whenever anyone sounded out his interest or rather the lack of it .
22 Mr Mounsa , 47 , was ordered to strip off the wallpaper he had just put up at the house in Toxteth .
23 It was the worst time he had ever lived through .
24 Both roles have involved handing out criticism , a task he has not held back from especially in this , the last year before he retires .
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