Example sentences of "[vb past] he [vb mod] [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gerry promised he 'd take care , promised to come back to me , but … ’ |
| 2 | Theo the go-between was soon urgently warning Vincent that his parents believed he should have treatment and were in touch with the lunatic asylum at Geel near Antwerp . |
| 3 | He needed a bath and quickly , he imagined he could smell smoke and the sour stench of sweat from his skin . |
| 4 | He felt an urge to reach out and rescue some of the sheets of paper on which he imagined he could see writing , but the heat was extreme . |
| 5 | GRAEME SOUNESS angrily claimed he would quit football if the tactics used by Crystal Palace last night ever prevail in the English game . |
| 6 | CHART newcomer John Mathews has a £100 bet that he 'll top the charts — after his clairvoyant mum predicted he would reach No. 1 . |
| 7 | Charles reckoned he could take advantage of her lethargic state to push a bit further . |
| 8 | Seb determined he would find time to have a long talk with her when his present hectic spell of work came to an end . |
| 9 | With a little food inside him he felt he might find composition easier . |
| 10 | He had spent so much time with Eloise that he felt he must make love to his wife that night , however tired he felt . |
| 11 | I think this is clearly Miller 's main use for the character of Alfieri and he tries to make this more realistic by making Alfieri a lawyer though I do not think that this is done very well as Alfieri does not say anything which would justify him being a lawyer as all Eddie asks him are things he would have asked anyone though perhaps he asked him because he was a ‘ lawyer ’ and he respected this and knew he would get confidentiality . |
| 12 | After Richard had got out , it went slowly but at least we knew he 'd get help . ’ |
| 13 | He said he thought he would commit suicide . |
| 14 | He started to sit up , seeking her face , but she was already moving down the bed , and moments later he felt her lips on his stomach , and then upon the head of his cock , which she took into her mouth by degrees , her tongue playing on it as she went , until he thought he would lose control . |
| 15 | Seb thought he must have misheard the gipsy . |
| 16 | I just thought poor guy , I mean he was somebody who thought he 'd overcome food addiction , drink addiction , drugs addiction and he looks like a spider . |
| 17 | ‘ Thought he 'd have trouble with that one , ’ said Bas . |
| 18 | And because he thought he could cheat death . |
| 19 | He thought he could smell dope ; grass or resin fumes . |
| 20 | He felt he had said them before , and thought he could sense death sniffing at his shoulder , as he had that day on the Red Mountain . |
| 21 | How he thought he could love Mama so much and dislike her friends and relations on the grounds that they were Italian , I do n't know . |
| 22 | She was regarding the Prince with the faintest and saddest of smiles , in which he thought he could read affection and indulgence , and surely also a soft , secret gleam of derision . |
| 23 | Souness , diverting publicity away from his side 's inept display , insisted he would quit football if more clubs adopted the tactics he claimed Palace used in Tuesday 's clash at Anfield , which finished 1-1 . |
| 24 | ROGER BLACK yesterday revealed he will quit athletics if he can not end the injury nightmare which shattered his Olympic dream . |
| 25 | In the end Harper had sworn a sacred oath on the Holy Mother and on all the bleeding wounds of Christ that he would not go into battle , that he would remember he was a husband and a father , and that if he so much as heard a musket shot he would turn tail and run away . |
| 26 | Philip hoped he would take advantage of the chance and do his best . |
| 27 | He had a fair idea of what Heydrich had been up to in Aalborg , and he hoped he might get confirmation this way . |
| 28 | Lord Justice MacDermott said he would give judgement as soon as possible . |
| 29 | On the night before his death he again said he would commit suicide . |
| 30 | Labour 's Derek Foster said he would lobby Agriculture Minister John Gummer to overturn a decision by the Intervention Board to take away the licence for certifying steers castrated bulls . |