Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [pron] [vb past] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | I knew that Ben was a good enough footballer to play effectively where we wanted him . ’ |
| 2 | But no warning could check Arthur Conway 's fury , and with a lightning leap he managed to grip the young man 's throat , and so fiercely that he forced him backwards , only the next moment to have his arms snapped downwards , when he would have fallen on his back if he had n't come up against the coalhouse wall and , unfortunately , a shovel that was propped there . |
| 3 | So once you got him into your fleshy arms — ’ |
| 4 | He and she were similar but he had a natural goodness which she lacked , and she did not want to claim aloud that she understood him because that , in itself , would lead to misunderstanding . |
| 5 | Faldo will never achieve the heights of Nicklaus ( will anyone ? ) , and he will probably never the win the affection of the golfing public , but he deserved better than you gave him . |
| 6 | And with that she stalked off , head held high , and it was only later when she calmed down that she realised he still thought Mick had stayed the night . |
| 7 | He would drop her , of course , sooner or later — or rather , he would engineer it so that she dropped him . |
| 8 | And he went to take her by the arm , for he feared that she might fall — only for an even worse horror to grip Sally-Anne , so that she pushed him violently away , quite unable to control herself , stammering , ‘ No — no … ’ |
| 9 | And I 'd sure see you had a lovely time , ’ he went on with almost too much intensity in his voice , so that he feared he might have frightened her off . |
| 10 | The sergeant would go sniffing around so that he showed he knew what you were doing . |
| 11 | I could see , as he sang , the years drop away — so that I knew him : the young and hopeful singer , all the best to come , a bottle no more than something to be cracked among friends . |
| 12 | He absently slid his programme nearer to her so that it touched him now , glancing at her out of the corner of his eye . |
| 13 | Sharpe twisted the map round so that it faced him . |
| 14 | It coincided with his drawing back from her so that it appeared he was the one to call a halt first . |
| 15 | She told us just now merely that he said he had a gun but you you remember that it is a hand gun . |
| 16 | Perhaps if they had he would have been trying just a little harder and not preparing himself , as he was , for a long night of fornication . |
| 17 | Perhaps if she asked him a simple , straightforward question she would receive a simple , straightforward answer in return . |
| 18 | At the entrance to the Press tent I asked the security man if Toby was inside and he pointed him out in the middle of the usual muddle of desks and papers , with telephones ringing and cigarette smoke drifting , and expletives exploding . |
| 19 | ‘ I watched him in and I watched him leave . |
| 20 | Yes , yes , but erm , you know , I have had to say to the chaps , one of them came in and he said he 'd been spoiled down at the cedar and I said oh well , I , I 've been cooking a breakfast for Neil of course by the operation of sods law , Neil suddenly goes off the idea of having breakfast , so I find myself cooking breakfast for this other lump , who is as idol and selfish as anybody ever met in all the born days , and I said to him just recently , I said , I , I ca n't get up and do breakfast 's in the morning any more , well he says he come 's down and does he 's own , you see they can when they feel that they want too . |
| 21 | And erm I remember I was I was about fifteen now and my young brother was only a little tot about two I think three and I remember my father came in and he did he went straight for my mam for nothing at all . |
| 22 | when she , this man was n't very well on , she saw him up at her window and she saw he was n't very well on the other side of the road and she sent down to ask him to come in and she gave him a cup of tea and everything and she was talking |
| 23 | Her face closed in and she eyed him with a return of the defiance and challenge he had seen in her eyes at first . |
| 24 | He went down and they carried him out . |
| 25 | In consequence of my suggestion , Harold Wilson asked Aitken and myself to dine with him to discuss the matter and to my amazement Max Aitken said that he would go , but only if I accompanied him . |
| 26 | That would be loss enough if I watched him go with only longing for him in my heart but there is instead a bitterness because he is happy to go life there being preferable to here where there is only his tired wife for company . |
| 27 | Yeah but even so if you paid him forty eight pounds for an hour that 's still |
| 28 | it was n't good because erm I did n't love him and right so , so if I kissed him and met him the next day would I , would I snog , would , would he , he 'd give me the hat so I said yeah sure , you know , whatever , so he goes okay and he like prepared himself and goes no I ca n't do it in here and so I had to go outside with him , snog him , got his hat and pissed off , never saw him again . |
| 29 | Especially if it meant he had to go out into the dark . |
| 30 | You got and you , you a taxi came along and you paid him forty P or fifty P , whatever |