Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [vb past] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He left the room and in his bed he wept with a violence he had never known before , spasm following spasm . |
| 2 | He led me into the hut he had just come out of |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Friends from the council he had once served on . |
| 5 | Nina came in soon after , flapping her arms like pterodactyl wings , and pounced on a girl he had never seen before . |
| 6 | ‘ Oak Lodge , ’ Wynne-Jones breathed , and repeated the name as if savouring the sound of a place he had once known well . |
| 7 | He and Dinah together could make books that would be widely read in scholarly circles ; he would achieve recognition of a sort he had never had before ; in America they would know of no disgrace about him , and in any case he was now married . |
| 8 | It was a sound he had never heard before : like sitting in a tall tree full of hornets . |
| 9 | Primaflora was absent when he arrived at the villa and when she returned , an hour later , she was wearing a girdle and a left sleeve he had never seen before , and a jewelled coif with a curled feather in it . |
| 10 | Modigliani arrived with a box of paints and a canvas he had already worked on . |
| 11 | I put a lot of it down to Harry Enfield ; just this week he 'd really taken off . |
| 12 | Charlie grabbed a seat in the corner of an unlit carriage and stared out of the grimy window at a passing English countryside he had never seen before . |
| 13 | He worked in a fair frenzy for two hours , making demands of the paint he 'd never made before , plastering it on with palette knife and fingers , attempting to capture at least the shape and proportion of the thing 's head and neck . |
| 14 | He only knew that Liza was the most sexually exciting woman he had ever come across and that , should they meet again , neither would be able to hold back from a passion which was so powerful it could only lead to trouble , about which his wife might come to hear . |
| 15 | He subsequently received letters from CSRG and university counsel claiming that all the work he had contributed to Berkeley since NET2 was ‘ University proprietary , ’ a phrase he had never heard before . |
| 16 | Vitor enquired , in a sardonic reminder of a phrase he had once used before . |
| 17 | Coupled with a wave of popular sympathy for Gaddafi as a bereaved father , resentment at what was seen as Washington 's bully-boy tactics appeared to have rallied the Libyans behind him with a solidarity he had rarely enjoyed before . |
| 18 | Behind the wheel was a young Japanese man he had never seen before , but Mum seemed to know all about him . |
| 19 | After all , he was better-looking than any man he had ever come across . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | His eyes moved on to a chest of drawers , two chairs and a bed he had never seen before . |
| 22 | It was some music he 'd never heard before , but he turned it up loud anyway and took a deep breath and settled back into his seat . |
| 23 | But it was like no music he had ever experienced before . |
| 24 | Time and again , that woman had shown herself to be as scheming and ruthless as any criminal-minded rogue he had ever come across ; with the exception of his good self , of course . |
| 25 | It was an operation he had never done before , and it was schrecklich difficult . |
| 26 | ‘ Please yerself , ’ answered Tom , but before he could warn Zach about the waterlogged floor he had already leapt down inside . |
| 27 | He wanted desperately to forget himself and who he was , or had hoped to be ; now , there was little hope , for the money he had carefully set aside for his expected purposes would not last for another year , and he had no employment . |
| 28 | Harley Street psychoanalyst Michael Whitenburgh admitted it was the most bizarre case he had ever come across . |
| 29 | This , allied to the respect and admiration he had already gained here as captain of our 1977 promotion team and as a member of the full Welsh International side , established an empathy between Ian and the fans which made him part of the folk-lore of Crystal Palace Football Club . |
| 30 | When he finally returned to England in 1952 , an unreconstructed radical from the 1930s , he was appalled to discover that an acquiescent temper of mind , even Christianity itself , had returned to haunt a literary world he had once supposed forever cleared of the religious taint . |