Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It also transpired that he had done virtually no mathematics . |
| 2 | It transpired that he had been sleeping rough for weeks and that his last known address was a Salvation Army hostel 100 miles away . |
| 3 | It transpired that he had been scouting at the Festival . |
| 4 | It also proved to be a fall from grace , as it transpired that he 'd stolen millions of pounds from his workers ' pension funds , to pay off mounting business debts . |
| 5 | It transpired that he wanted to be able to comment on each question in more depth and indeed some staff did so on separate sheets . |
| 6 | Shouted that he knew I was inside . |
| 7 | I shouted that he did not know what he was talking about and held the telephone away from my face . |
| 8 | Today he made a humiliating climb down in the Commons and demonstrated that he 'd lost his political touch — that he did n't realise how upset the voters would be if he put 30,000 — going on 100,000 — people out of work . |
| 9 | Mr Brown demonstrated that he has already utterly mastered the use of the sound-bite to get a headline phrase into the news bulletins . |
| 10 | Secretly she exulted that he had the car . |
| 11 | Thomas Cook was one of the first entrepreneurs to see the huge possibilities of rail travel and in 1844 , after the success of his early excursions , he pronounced that he wanted ‘ railways for the millions ’ . |
| 12 | Lachman , who can now claim the distinction of selling his company twice and buying it back once , quipped that he has personally established a new executive benchmark , transactions per year ( TPY ) , having sold Interactive to SunSoft , Praxis to SunSelect , Interactive to Systemhouse and having bought back Lachman , all in the space of the last twelve months . |
| 13 | A notable illustration of this complexity even among hard-core racists was the NF official who pointed out that he had been elected by both black and white work mates , despite his well-known NF affiliation , because he fought equally hard for blacks and whites ; he claimed a liking for blacks and maintained that he played football and drank with them , although politically he supported repatriation . |
| 14 | They encountered no opposition though Ranulf maintained that he had seen a rider watching them as they crossed the bridge at Dalmeny . |
| 15 | The accused maintained that he had gone to her home to ask if she had received a letter of apology from him for his earlier crime . |
| 16 | French maintained that he thought that the safety catch was on and that he had been struck a blow on the back of the head which had caused him to stagger and pull the trigger . |
| 17 | The next day 's headline — Youth denies sex attack — told how the teenager maintained that he took the schoolgirl behind a shop for a goodnight kiss , alleging that the girl consented to his advances . |
| 18 | But she maintained that he went off to the Supersight factory with Brian Harley for several days . |
| 19 | In his evidence at the subsequent trial , Paisley maintained that he did this to keep the parade moving and hence diffuse tension . |
| 20 | Harold got more because he sang and told jokes , but my mother maintained that he did n't sing well and that his jokes were blue . |
| 21 | When Robert McFarlane was charged with withholding information from Congress about diverting arms sale funds to the Contras , Reagan openly joked that he had done the same and withheld information from Congress . |
| 22 | Associates were shocked by the transformation , and joked that he had become a plain-clothes policeman . |
| 23 | ‘ Come back , come back ! ’ she shouted , but he pretended that he had not heard her at all . |
| 24 | If she walked out , then he would be unable to follow her unless he 'd brought back-up with him , and somehow she rather doubted that he had . |
| 25 | It was here that Napoleon spent his working day when in residence at the Tuileries and from this study France was governed , for , as his ministers knew : ‘ The Emperor had no reason to fear that anyone doubted that he reigned ; he was even more anxious that they should know that he ruled . ’ |
| 26 | He mentioned that he sought advice from ‘ the masters ’ for particularly scientific sections , and Boerhaave , Boyle , Blair , Grew , Halley , Hales and Newton are all acknowledged in the text . |
| 27 | The grin left his face as he mentioned that he had been informed about an hour ago that his brother-in-law , who was a member of No. 4 Commando , had been killed during a German counter attack on the Commando positions . |
| 28 | In his forties it grew worse and he decided to see a specialist When Alan mentioned that he had taken a lot of antibiotics just before the urticaria began , the specialist suggested that he try a diet with no sugar and very little starch . |
| 29 | They talked , and in course of it Paul mentioned that he had already sketched out plans for a second book ; the Professor had already informed Mr Lamprey of the first . |
| 30 | James mentioned that he had never understood why people went on strike until he became a wage-earner . |