Example sentences of "[pron] he [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hank was someone he had made up . |
| 2 | And representing someone he had wanted Pamela to be . |
| 3 | Cardiff was still one of the bastards who had put him away , not someone who had been duped by a fellow officer with false evidence , certainly not someone he had come to respect . |
| 4 | She reminded him of someone he had known as a young man . |
| 5 | The feelings retained their freshness in his memory : the delicious agony of watching her ; the frustration of not being able to touch her ; the pleasure he had when someone he had known at school passed along the towpath , looked up and saw him , Peter Redburn , having a drink with Kate Molland . |
| 6 | I was standing in the Hemingford Arms one Friday evening , minding my own business , having a drink with a few friends , when Simon introduced me to someone he knew called Keith . |
| 7 | Especially not someone he 'd known all his life . |
| 8 | Many are the times he has held up busy working schedules because he has become fascinated by someone he has encountered in a crowd . |
| 9 | It 's very agreeable to be able to reach down and offer someone a helping hand — particularly someone he has looked up to for so long . |
| 10 | ‘ He says he 's got to bring someone else along tonight , someone he 's got to entertain . ’ |
| 11 | to kind of just get together with someone he 's identified a person whose name I ca n't remember but he 's got a chamber orchestra |
| 12 | The skin was one of the few aspects of himself he had passed on to Sylvia , his bonny young daughter . |
| 13 | But that matter of long ago , which he had persuaded himself he had cured by finally taking the maidenhead of Miss Emily Groundwater ; had all that been useless ? |
| 14 | Tammuz Malamute abused the body Ewan had bequeathed him for years , telling himself he 'd buried the past , until the day he woke up and a voice inside reminded him that Ari Famber was fourteen years old . |
| 15 | Events and tendencies are bigger than he is , and while not shaky in himself he gets dealt the final shove of murder . |
| 16 | Nobody he had questioned had seen a second piper . |
| 17 | It must be somebody he had forgotten . |
| 18 | Sir Stephen Fox , who was Member of Parliament for Sarum and served as Lord Commissioner of the Treasury for both King Charles II and William 111 , from 1665 until his death in 1716 , bought the copyhold , in 1682 , or thereabouts , of an estate north-west of Corney House ( on the river front of Old Chiswick ) and behind the first Earl of Burlington 's mansion in Chiswick , and in 1691 he also acquired several acres on the west side of Chiswick Lane , where he sited a mansion with gardens , which he came known as Manor Farm House . |
| 19 | Before the Great War , however , Baden-Powell 's public attitude towards the military significance of the Boy Scouts had been hedged about with all sorts of reservations , and he had always actively disfavoured drill which he thought produced merely mechanical obedience . |
| 20 | He was also well versed about historic homes , in many of which he had stayed , an interest he shared with Roddy , who even as a boy had been fascinated by pictures and architecture . |
| 21 | The eclipse , partly by his own desire , partly because of the overturning of the world in which he had governed , was too abrupt . |
| 22 | Her father , ruling duke of Celle ( exchanged for Hanover which he had governed from 1648 ) since 1665 , was not married to Eléonore at the time of their daughter 's birth , but , by military and diplomatic services to the Holy Roman Emperor , he obtained the legitimization of Sophia Dorothea and in 1675 the legal marriage of her parents was permitted . |
| 23 | He moved away from the spot on which he had prayed and gazed over Crummock Water . |
| 24 | Within hours of the meeting , Mr Sharif addressed a special session of parliament which he had called in order to try to impeach the president . |
| 25 | On Jan. 24 a spokesman for the Islamic Tahrir ( Liberation ) party , Atta Abu Rushtah , was arrested by security forces after a press conference in which he had called for suicide attacks to be launched on Western and allied interests throughout the world in retaliation for attacks on Iraq . |
| 26 | Twoflower was feverishly attaching the cage of subdued lizards to the picture box , which he had mounted on a tripod . |
| 27 | ( Many years before , an uncle of mine had run along the top of that wall carrying a doormat which he had placed carefully on top of the chimney of the little building adjacent called the Reading Room . |
| 28 | His solemn burial was at Constantinople alongside the cenotaphs of the twelve apostles which he had placed in the church of the apostles on the city 's highest hill . |
| 29 | She did n't love her husband , or even have any great affection for him , but she was mindful of the predicament in which he had placed himself by marrying so far beneath him , and she was going to make certain he never had cause to be ashamed of her . |
| 30 | He had a wire basket in his left hand , in which he had placed two tins of pineapple cubes . |