Example sentences of "he [vb past] [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had never questioned their presence , but now he realised that it had oppressed him . |
| 2 | He realised that it had been a while now since he had put himself on the lookout for Medjays shadowing him . |
| 3 | Aaron ( 7 ) was given an entrance exam which he passed and it allowed him to jump a grade . |
| 4 | Before long , he agreed that it suited his single-minded purpose to make peace with his co-star . |
| 5 | And when William came back from Germany and a decision had to be made about his education , he argued that it made sense to send him to the state school , the same as Preston . |
| 6 | As it passed , he realized that it had slowed down , turned around and was starting to give chase . |
| 7 | She took a step backwards , and suddenly he realized that it had n't been easy for her to come here . |
| 8 | When he was shown the Demoiselles d'Avignon , Braque appears at first to have been bewildered by it , though he realized that it marked an important new departure . |
| 9 | Before another reading of this poem on the same visit , he announced that it began where he had begun , and that it ended where he and his wife hoped to end — in the parish church of a Somerset village ; he could see now the pattern of his life completed . |
| 10 | He admitted that it saddened him to realise that ‘ my youth is gone — not my love of life or my energy , but I mean the time when one feels so lighthearted and carefree . ’ |
| 11 | Plotting the line on a map , he found that it passed straight through Westminster Abbey , the site of which was originally known as Thorney Island from a conspicuous mark : a hallowed clump of hawthorn . |
| 12 | When he tried to swallow the lump in his throat he found that it tasted of beck-water . |
| 13 | He found that it opened a window on the City that he would otherwise never have had . |
| 14 | He was not rewarded with the birdie four he deserved but it did not matter . |
| 15 | He added that it had been some years since he had been back in England . |
| 16 | He added that it seemed the Government had been pushed into making the decision by the major chain bookmakers , such as Ladbrokes and William Hill . |
| 17 | Recalling that ‘ this country was built on ruins ’ , he added that it remained his aim to strive for a classless society . |
| 18 | Zarathustra interpreted the struggle between good and evil forces in ethical terms , and he believed that it pervaded the whole universe . |
| 19 | When the barrister made his remark he was not aware that no such document existed , although he believed that it did because of what his client had said in evidence . |
| 20 | He had never believed that anything like this could happen to him — this being , he supposed , love at first sight — but he acknowledged that it had . |
| 21 | He claimed that it did n't matter what mantra you said , or indeed if you did n't have one , as long as you cleared out your mind . |
| 22 | The Director of Studies expressed strong misgivings over the amount of his time ( he claimed that it has ‘ cost ’ him 32 periods ) which the review of this small department had taken . |
| 23 | The animal had been plunging towards the shelter of a riverside bamboo grove when he fired and it had probably been the best shot of his life . |
| 24 | After reference to the unfortunate existence of the BSP , he stated that it had been completely destroyed by amalgamation into the Communist Party ‘ pledged to follow the Bolshevist dictatorship of Lenin' . |
| 25 | He stated that it had only been made some fifteen to twenty years ago by , of all people , his uncle . |
| 26 | He replied that it appeared that there was a trust on the coheir too to make over to Seia the quarter which he had in the gardens . |
| 27 | He replied that it did n't matter a damn about that as long as he got the fish on the bank . |
| 28 | He replied that it did seem strange to him too , but that at every stage God — as far as they could discern — had opened the way to do this . |
| 29 | He declared that it provides time for the family to gather or the body to be transported home and it offers an opportunity for them to see the person in a state of peaceful repose . |
| 30 | which he followed till it slipped below the skyline . |