Example sentences of "he [conj] [vb past] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There had been profiles of him that suggested that he was a jogger who had been bitten by one of Alex ‘ Down Sir ’ Snell 's pit-bulls . |
| 2 | The King thanked him and added that he died a Christian and a member of the Church of England . |
| 3 | Since then he had often recalled what Adam said next , had taken the gun from him and remarked that it was a pump-action shot-gun . |
| 4 | When the latter siege had ended successfully , Molla Yegan came to Mehmed II to congratulate him and remarked that his prayers had continually been with him . |
| 5 | Before he could reach out and stab him as he planned , and then kill his companion too , and with support from his companions , seize the cannon himself , he heard a scream of pain behind him and realised that another of his fellow fighters had fallen from the ring fence on to the ground . |
| 6 | She thanked him and waited while David invited him in for a cup of tea . |
| 7 | He said he knew the tablets would not have harmed him and admitted that he had taken them to make his wife see how much he needed her . |
| 8 | I was expecting his camels to follow him and understood that he would not come further before they were in view . |
| 9 | Instead of subsiding now that he was no longer touching her , the disturbance he had caused deepened as she looked at him and understood that the warning was a personal one , merely dressed up as professional advice . |
| 10 | He met Frank , liked him and agreed that he should have the job . |
| 11 | He shut the door quickly behind him and came and sat on the small wooden chair in the corner . |
| 12 | Jesus left heaven behind him and came and offended the traditions of the church . |
| 13 | Leith sank down into a chair the moment the outer door had closed behind him and discovered that she was trembling . |
| 14 | He hugged her to him and insisted that she had a drink on the house . |
| 15 | I really wanted to identify with him and wished that I could have said that I had been in the Falklands or in Northern Ireland , thereby establishing some sort of link . |
| 16 | So when this came up it was obviously advantageous to have some new tracks for the anthology and so we approached him and asked if he would be interested . |
| 17 | When on one occasion a young Indian student approached him and asked if he was T. S. Eliot , he looked up at her in alarm , agreed that he was , and got off the bus . |
| 18 | He 'd thought that when Nisodemus had summoned him and asked if there was any paint in the quarry , only now the quarry was being called the New Store . |
| 19 | She smiled down at him and realized that in the few weeks he 'd been with her he had not only put on weight but had grown a few inches in height too . |
| 20 | Moran had written to him and assumed that he would come . |
| 21 | She had been ‘ petrified ’ she would lose her boyfriend if she told him and feared if she told her employers , she would lose the job she loved . |
| 22 | When its flapping had started to irritate me , I snatched it from him and saw that it was ruled like a timetable . |
| 23 | She started to bristle , but then she looked at him and saw that his smile was open and good-humoured . |
| 24 | She turned to stare at him and saw that he was smiling — a twisted smile that made her colour rise quickly . |
| 25 | Especially after Bishop Wishart visited him and announced that Seton was not guilty of any involvement in the King 's death . ’ |
| 26 | Joe Fitzgerald was so much older and moved in a different circle , and on the few occasions that Sarah had seen him he had shown no interest in her , but she liked him and knew that he enjoyed reading and poetry as much as she did . |
| 27 | She grabbed him and hugged and hugged him . |
| 28 | The Emperor spoke to him and said that as long as he did not speak to anyone in that underground place , nothing would happen to him . |
| 29 | On 26th May , Hunt came to see him and said that he was taking over the purchase negotiations for the Downing Street scheme , and particularly upset Pennethorne by producing one of Pennethorne 's drawings to assist him in the work . |
| 30 | At the morning coffee-break , one of his colleagues approached him and said that he practised acupuncture , and that he would relieve his shoulder tension for him if he wished . |