Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [pron] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He planned to engage what he believed to be weak Russian formations advancing from the east . |
| 2 | He agreed to do what he could . |
| 3 | Her glance searched his face for some clue as to what he meant , and when he failed to enlighten her she asked , ‘ This relationship , you mean ? ’ |
| 4 | A generation or more later , Baron Cederhielm , the Holstein envoy in Paris and chamberlain to the king of Sweden , was sent to the Châtelet prison at the demand of his creditors , while in 1772 the Hessian minister in the French capital was officially warned that his furniture could be seized and he himself refused a passport to leave the country if he failed to pay what he owed . |
| 5 | ‘ I suppose because he got to know what I had seen and how much I remembered . |
| 6 | When he came back she said she 'd go out herself tomorrow , and if he tried to stop her she 'd smash up all his crockery . |
| 7 | He tried to grasp what he had been rehearsing but he seemed to have lost it . |
| 8 | He tried to remember what they used to listen to but the names that came were too embarrassingly ancient to be spoken in public , even to William . |
| 9 | When he tried to upstage her she sauntered down to the front of the stage and such was her control over the audience now , he had to back off , otherwise it would have been he who looked ridiculous . |
| 10 | He tried to imagine what it would be like to get such news . |
| 11 | The moment passed , and he tried to imagine what she was going through , how it felt to her . |
| 12 | Defiantly her chin came up , challenging him , warning that he was beneath her dignity ; that if he tried to hiss her she would … |
| 13 | He tried to visualize what he would have done with them . |
| 14 | However , when he tried to assist her she pushed him away indignantly . |
| 15 | He tried to tell himself he was being ridiculous . |
| 16 | He tried to recall what he knew of Nicholas Braithwaite 's only child . |
| 17 | ‘ He phoned to tell me they found Timmy . ’ |
| 18 | Then they were aware of something , out there beyond the benches , which they could sense moving silently in the mist , and though he strained to see it he could not quite catch the thing in one place , for it seemed to come ant go , larger than the bench and bin , looming nearer but not quite seen , dark and grey and pointing to the sky . |
| 19 | I immediately wrote to Colonel Sandford asking for his help in collecting my caravan , and he promised to do whatever he could . |
| 20 | He bent to hear what she was saying , because she had a rather soft voice . |
| 21 | As he bent to get them she stretched out her leg beside him , smooth and wet-white bare , a shabby pink mule dangling from the toes . |
| 22 | The last time he 'd seen her she 'd been drunk , they 'd had a fight , he 'd left her sprawling on the carpet . |
| 23 | She 'd worn slacks all through rehearsals and the only other times he 'd seen her she 'd been wearing that dreary suit . |
| 24 | They 'd always be wanting nylons , he thought , he 'd seen what they 'd do for them during the war . |
| 25 | He 'd always assumed that this was a piece of official terminology until one day he 'd asked what it meant , and found out that it stood for Another Fucking Drunk . |
| 26 | There were ways , Karr had said , of making a man think he 'd done something he had n't : ways of implanting false memories in the mind . |
| 27 | So so when he 'd done it he said well two hundred and fifty quid I heard him and he said but I suppose you know the of it oh I do n't know and he said why did n't you do it ? |
| 28 | All he had done was what she had told him to do and when he phoned from the motorway to tell her he 'd done it she 'd gone mad ! |
| 29 | Then he let go of my sleeve as if he 'd confessed what it was he had to confess . |
| 30 | But it put too much pressure on the relationship , and when it finished I realised that he 'd resented what I had done . |