Example sentences of "he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a time he nerved himself to say to a couple of youngish men , ‘ Have you heard at all about a man called Menzies ? |
| 2 | Finally he nerved himself and confessed about his visions . |
| 3 | He threaded the rope through the spike 's eye . |
| 4 | In the 11th minute he threaded the ball through for Evans whose shot brushed the outside of a Sunderland post . |
| 5 | The door was held open for him , and he threaded his way through all the backstage equipment . |
| 6 | He threaded it through the bunkers into the heart of the green . |
| 7 | Quickly organising the men , he threaded a leading-rein through his belt , passing the free ends to a team of men . |
| 8 | He sat down on his bed while he threaded new laces into his boots , and then paused , one lace suspended in his hand , as he wondered suddenly why the wire service had not given the Advent any news about him . |
| 9 | His movements were slow and deliberate as he threaded his fingers through the tangled strands , his eyes on his task , and Hilary forgot to breathe altogether , almost terrified by his touch . |
| 10 | When she just kept on looking at him he threaded his hands in her hair and let it drift through his fingers , watching the deep red glow in the lights . |
| 11 | The fitful moonlight was bright enough to see by , so he did n't bother to use his torch as he threaded his way forward through the trees . |
| 12 | Chris was very quiet and she still did not say much as he threaded the car through the morning traffic . |
| 13 | Above : A Jaffna schoolboy shows a drawing he made of helicopters strafing his home town . |
| 14 | He made these three-liners into sardonic comments which undercut the banalities of the newspaper in which they appeared . |
| 15 | In 1964 Peter Murray wrote an introduction to a new edition , in which he made an observation about the passage on Bernini 's St Teresa , the sculptural group in Rome which is a key work of the Baroque : |
| 16 | This sort of reading is only for the dedicated follower of the history of taste , though any reader particularly interested in a picture may find within a single catalogue entry an acutely discriminating judgement or interesting facts ; for example , Tietze 's entry also points out that Manet so much admired the Tintoretto self-portrait that he made a copy of it . |
| 17 | He asks the daughter of the refugee cook , remembering the days when he made love with this daughter , if she had known two different boys . |
| 18 | He was well-aware of the sense in which he made up what happened to him , imagined his misfortune . |
| 19 | In this way , the student can gain confidence by knowing that he made the decisions and that they were sensible ones . |
| 20 | But he made her laugh and worked like hell for peanuts . |
| 21 | As he made his way down the path from the manse between the round-shouldered granite gravestones , his face looked pink , as though he had recently shaved in scalding water . |
| 22 | They say he made a speech at Dull . ’ |
| 23 | She was consumed with gauging his mood , foreseeing every move he made , hag-ridden by the spectres of all the troubles he could bring down on himself and them . |
| 24 | He made himself wake finally and lay under the covers feeling weak and hot , as though he had been spending energy incessantly all night . |
| 25 | But he made himself walk to and fro a hundred times , slowly at first , then more briskly , to keep up some sense of health . |
| 26 | Leonard was full-blooded , physically and temperamentally , and these teenage years saw him active in a wide range of sporting interests : cycling ( one of his favourite pastimes then ) , skiing , swimming , canoeing , sailing and ice-hockey ( in which he made the school team ) , boxing and wrestling , though he was very little involved in the last two . |
| 27 | The choices he made , and the way his achievements oscillated , show a decided lack of conviction , or perhaps of direction , in his thinking . |
| 28 | He got plenty of work done there ; he made friends ; he felt liberated and enjoyed himself . |
| 29 | If Leonard appeared in his first book to invite comparisons , now he made statements , claims , and most of all , confessions . |
| 30 | As usual he made small disappointing discoveries in the kitchen drawers . |