Example sentences of "i [vb past] [adv] he " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I asked why he could n't just plead guilty . |
| 2 | I asked how he thought I should do it and he said buy a tenoner . |
| 3 | When I asked how he communicated with Bengali patients who spoke no English he said ‘ I have no trouble in communicating with them because I learned pidgin English in the army . ’ |
| 4 | I asked how he viewed the invasion by other southern factions . |
| 5 | ‘ Do you know , Father , it was n't until Whitton was dead that I realised how he had held us in his evil thrall . ’ |
| 6 | When I looked then at first I could n't see , it was all — you know — black like inside my eyes , but I knew they were open and I could hear the kids yelling — and when I got up he was lying on the sofa , snoring — he must 've just dropped me and let me where I lie- ’ She stopped and Clare sat quietly waiting . |
| 7 | When I got home he was already in his room , whistling away cheerfully . |
| 8 | When I got there he was pleased to see me ; he seemed to expect us to be able to do something about his leg but of course we could n't . |
| 9 | By the time I got there he was dead . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ I knew something was wrong — when I got there he would n't look at me . |
| 11 | Paul did n't drink a lot , but when I got back he was drunk . |
| 12 | When I got back he was at the cashier 's desk settling the bill . |
| 13 | When I got back he 'd eaten those so I presu , quite pleased about that . |
| 14 | I found out he 'd fired his caddie John Moorhouse and then he 'd tried a German lad , but he 'd only lasted the practice round ! |
| 15 | He had very short dark hair , a really cheeky young lad 's face and later I found out he was very funny . |
| 16 | And I found out he was n't difficult at all . |
| 17 | Then I found out he hung himself . |
| 18 | At first I did n't mind doing it , but after two months I found out he had quite a few women . |
| 19 | When I got into work on the big day I found out he 'd been arrested at the weekend . |
| 20 | but I knew that before I moved there he says I know better |
| 21 | When I came down he said : ‘ That 's better . |
| 22 | When I was speaking t very very briefly erm to Ian before before I came down he said , well I 'm really not surprised , the the the continuing problem and difficulty in establishing what 's on the palette , as to whether it 's lawn feed and weed , lawn feed and , for example . |
| 23 | I was looking at the vectors on either side of him to see if he had any friends and when I came back he was gone . ’ |
| 24 | He sent me into the pub to have a drink , and when I came out he had the two back shoes on . |
| 25 | I think he had a little bit of ill health and my immediate superior took over as Traffic Superintendent and he was there throughout the war and when I came out he was my boss and er you see and er and then in nineteen forty eight was made Transport Manager , because as you say we had to split from Electric Supply and he carried on until erm nineteen seventy two and erm , we had government reorganization and erm they did away with people like the Town Clerk and Transport Manager and erm erm was retired , early retirement , the same as the Town Clerk and erm they brought in a General Manager from away and brought in more staff with him and that was came in and er so I then applied for the position , which was going , there was , there was Traffic Superintendent was going er Chief Administration Officer , Chief Engineer and erm er Bodywork Maintenance Superintendent . |
| 26 | Last night , before I came home he dragged me into his office to work out how much money we spend Pontypool delivering parts to Solihull . |
| 27 | I noticed how he had slipped his feet under the exposed roots of trees — themselves held in the grasp of the hollow . |
| 28 | I discovered later he was the marketing manager of a company that sold agricultural fertiliser . |
| 29 | Then I heard how he lived hand to mouth in the Bronx , lobbying whom he could at the talking-shop . |
| 30 | ‘ It was a photograph of Mark and I heard how he 'd qualified as a chiropractor and set up in Falmouth where it 's uphill work . |