Example sentences of "he [conj] [pron] [vb past] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nonetheless , the absence of labourers is more apparent than real : the local practice of not assessing goods of less value than £2 did not mean that any personal property owned by people of the labouring sort was generally ignored , for a good many men later taxed on wages owned goods worth anything up to £10 in 1522 , which ( unless perhaps having disposed of , say , a beast or two ) they managed to conceal from the taxman and convince him that they had nothing but the minimum in wages . |
| 2 | He asked about several crimes of violence that had happened in south-east Antrim and Beattie told him that he knew nothing about any of them . |
| 3 | He was formidable , laconic , self-disciplined , earnest but not humourless , and it was said of him that he did everything with a kind of good-natured fury . |
| 4 | ‘ His parents were too poor to keep him so they lent him to a forester . |
| 5 | I took notice of him 'cause he knew everything about football as well as boxing . |
| 6 | Thom picked up two oranges from the gutter but someone saw him and they took him to Derby Street police station and he got the sack from the police . |
| 7 | And he said I was completely confused and I could n't , he said I was trying to shout my wife and erm and , er , you know my mouth would n't work , he said , but she said fortunately she looked through the window and er found him and they took him to hospital . |
| 8 | Then they were both fearful for him and they took him into the cold scullery , where they hid him from the intruders . |
| 9 | ‘ My brother left me alone in the room with him and I loathed him on sight … then I eventually liked him and then I fell in love with him . ’ |
| 10 | Her head turned slightly towards him and she fixed him with that blind , unthinking stare . |
| 11 | She handed the glass back to him and he returned it to the restaurant . |
| 12 | I knew him as well , of course , so I contacted him and he told me about the trip . ’ |
| 13 | She held the second shotgun out to him and he slung it across his chest . |
| 14 | And er also many engineers when they were out their time , they went to Glasgow and for a few years , he , everybody who went from Galashiels , word got through to him and he met them at the station and got them settled in their digs in Glasgow . |
| 15 | He saw some of the storm-troopers turn their attention to him and he sprayed them with his MPSK . |
| 16 | Gaitskell never adopted me in the sense that Harold Wilson did later , but I became quite close to him and he employed me in quasi-political matters . |
| 17 | A pretty girl in a white coat came out to him and he reminded her of his appointment . |
| 18 | Even the dust and horse-smell seemed to be still with him and he reminded you of Lamarr Dean and Early and almost everyone of them you ever saw : all made of the same leather and hardly ever smiling unless they were with their own look-alike brothers . |
| 19 | This experience appeared to transform him and he threw himself into a great surge of composition , writing a Mass of Thanksgiving for unaccompanied choir filling 100 pages of manuscript , which he completed in 15 days , as well as other works , including a setting of Out of the Deep which is given its first performance by his choir at St Philip and St James , Cheltenham , at his funeral on today . |
| 20 | The interchange would usually end with Gina kicking Nigel on the shin , clawing him or hitting him if she had something in her hands . |
| 21 | I would n't have known him if I met him in the street . |
| 22 | They prepared Cameron for his appearance in the High Court of Justiciary by one final interview , a dry recapitulation of what had been said before , with the slightest of hints that it would go well for him if he divulged something about the United Scotsmen , who evidently still preyed on their minds . |
| 23 | ‘ And I want to ask him if he did anything to my goose . ’ |
| 24 | The teenager tried to run away when the youths approached him but they punched him in the face and pushed him to the ground . |
| 25 | I went to punch him but I caught him with the crowbar instead . ’ |
| 26 | Murder appalled him because it took everything from the victim with no possibility of restitution , it blotted out memories of a past and hopes for a future . |
| 27 | Mum Lynn said at their home in Faversham , Kent : ‘ We have kidded him since he bought them for school camp that he has n't taken them off . |
| 28 | And she would have to leave whatever she was doing to sit in with him while he briefed her on what he intended to do , and why . |
| 29 | Carrie had her back to him as she busied herself by the fire . |
| 30 | They made respectful way for him as he led me through the village to a longhouse standing apart from the others . |