Example sentences of "[vb past] [conj] he [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Labour was utilised more efficiently , and as well as being mindful of his employer 's interests , Barratt demonstrated that he also had a care for his workmen . |
| 2 | It seemed to me that it was not only natural but positive : it demonstrated that he still had a relationship with God . |
| 3 | But Coleridge found that he rather enjoyed the rolling of the deck , and held long and facetious conversations with a talkative fellow passenger . |
| 4 | Huy had returned to his house in order to work out a way of getting into the brothel known by the impious name of the Glory of Set — Nebamun had been right , he found that he simply could not let the whole thing drop , and now there was a friend 's death to be avenged — when the message had come for him from the palace compound . |
| 5 | As she hesitated , Tug found that he desperately wanted to know what she would say . |
| 6 | He had blushed at the thought and turned quickly away , but as time passed he found that he desperately wanted to share his secret with her ; until then he 'd always confided in her unhesitatingly and it seemed strange that something should now make him hold back . |
| 7 | In all our dealings with the head teacher we found that he consistently refused to accept that the methods of teaching at the school were failing our son . |
| 8 | His hands trembled and he constantly looked to Louise for advice and support . |
| 9 | Josh had the newspaper spread out in front of him on the table , but Ruth felt sure that he had not been reading it ; she doubted if he even knew it was there . |
| 10 | Well , he felt nothing , not in that way , and he doubted if he ever would again . |
| 11 | The lights went yellow as he approached but he just managed to squeeze through , to a chorus of horn blasts . |
| 12 | ‘ What you got there then , boys ? ’ he shouted as he tight rope walked over a strip of rock strata showing just above the mud of the trough . |
| 13 | For a brief moment , she actually thought he would defy the old man , but then her heart sank when he sheepishly replied , ‘ Perhaps it would be for the best , dear . ’ |
| 14 | I was about to go back to the hotel when a pool attendant gestured to me and whispered that he urgently needed to change Iraqi dinars into dollars . |
| 15 | Corman called ‘ It 's a wrap ’ on Friday evening , and realized that he still had almost forty-eight hours ' usage left on the warehouse and sets he had rented for The Raven . |
| 16 | he looked down at the two hands locked onto his arm and then at the small man hurrying on ahead , and realized that he still had his chaperons , and once again they were not of his own choosing … |
| 17 | At breakfast the next morning Van Cheele realized that he still felt uncomfortable about yesterday 's adventure . |
| 18 | He was so angry and frustrated that he hardly noticed she was not yet dressed . |
| 19 | Frau Nordern agreed that he probably had been . |
| 20 | He also agreed that he once claimed surfing was better than sex , and had said he could not be gay because he went surfing , which he considered a largely heterosexual sport . |
| 21 | He also agreed that he once claimed surfing was better than sex , and had said he could not be gay because he went surfing , which he considered a largely heterosexual sport . |
| 22 | And then , looking around him , he realised that he no longer knew where he was . |
| 23 | It was only then that he realised that he simply had n't been driving it fast enough . |
| 24 | The relief must have shown in her face , as she caught his brief little smile of amusement drifting in her direction , and when she thought back on their encounters lately she realised that he often seemed to glance at her in that same lightly amused way , as if he found her mildly diverting — the way he might feel , perhaps , about a pretty child . |
| 25 | Then everyone realised that he really needed to go and sort himself out . |
| 26 | And then she realised that he actually meant to force the key to breaking-point . |
| 27 | ‘ Sorry I disturbed you … ’ she began stiffly , then registered that he still wore the clothes he 'd worn earlier , minus the suit jacket and tie . |
| 28 | On Nov. 28 the secretary-general of the Histadrut , Yisrael Qeysar , announced that he also would stand . |
| 29 | During the strike Donald Trump , a New York real estate magnate , announced that he no longer wished to purchase Eastern 's shuttle services to Boston from New York and from Washington DC . |
| 30 | However , on May 23 US President Bush announced that he strongly supported Baker 's statement . |