Example sentences of "he [vb past] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E left me roastin' outside the gates while 'e went an' phoned the police , ’ Freddie moaned . |
| 2 | Its endemic pessimism had got him by the balls and left him beached and burned out by his late twenties , unemployed , unskilled and unloved by all but his widowed mother . |
| 3 | The two behind him joked and laughed as they went along . |
| 4 | Why should the same multitude who invoked blessings on the son of David rejoice in seeing him mortified and humiliated by the hated Roman oppressors ? |
| 5 | ‘ I want Surere caught and brought here ; and I want him tried and executed , and I want this before the next public rest day , ’ he repeated . |
| 6 | She stared at him a moment , her eyes narrowed slightly , as if she saw through the flesh to the bone itself , and while he met her staring eyes unflinchingly , something in the depths of him squirmed and tried to break away . |
| 7 | The psychological insights which he might once have applied were no longer applicable ; thus , like most people , like all of us would in a similar circumstance , the degree to which he could realistically perceive what was going on within his body and what was becoming of him came and went . |
| 8 | His war record and the fact that he had never been able to catch him redhanded whilst poaching appealed to his old world code of honour . |
| 9 | She looked at it and then shrugged and turned away , and the brief light that had illuminated him spluttered and died . |
| 10 | The revolver bucked and flared and the figure before him leaped and fell back with outflung arms . |
| 11 | When I 've seen his father and confirmed that he made that call at eight-forty-five we may be able to narrow it down . |
| 12 | No , he made that laugh up for himself . |
| 13 | I found the fact that he made that record much more affecting than , say , Highway 67 Revisited . |
| 14 | Doug felt that , as his head of department , Mary was setting the agenda of the meetings , even though she had not seen the videos he made while teaching : ‘ There may be conflict there . |
| 15 | These he made as aquatints , and the next series followed in 1796 — Series of Picturesque Views of the North of England , where by 1796 , the survey over , he informed the public that he was leaving behind his previous work and going to be a drawing master once again , but at 3 Lad Lane where he was again living with Hartley his half-brother . |
| 16 | Partly no doubt because Bob had been brought up in Thornton Heath , he was popular with local fans , but his popularity also stemmed from the fact the he made or scored vital goals precisely when they were needed . |
| 17 | Easy going and charming , he made friends easily ; adventurous and audacious , his exploits brought both fame and notoriety during his lifetime ; intelligent but irresponsible , he made and squandered a fortune in a few years ; all in all , he was an eccentric who lived life to the full . |
| 18 | My most vivid recollection is a gesture he made when getting me to describe my fiancée . |
| 19 | Petipa 's remark that ‘ without ports de bras the dancer is dumb ’ is only one of the wise comments he made when working on his choreographic designs . |
| 20 | They were all written in nineteen thirty-nine or nineteen forty , and though they all concerned Walter Machin and his writing , or the industrial environment in which he lived and had grown up , they nevertheless contrived to be oddly impersonal and unrevealing . |
| 21 | He lived and played and wrote and toured frenetically for the next couple of years , working night and day — with just a little help from Benzedrine , Methedrine , and anything else that would speed him up or slow him down . |
| 22 | His father is first traced as opening a tailor 's shop at 34 Milk Street , Bristol , in 1803 , where he lived and continued his trade until 1831 . |
| 23 | He lived and died in Königsberg , never venturing beyond the province , and had the reputation of being the contented bachelor from whose afternoon walk it was possible to set one 's watch . |
| 24 | The well-known will of ‘ Dasumius ’ , for instance , contains such a clause despite the fact that he lived and died after the passing of Nero 's SC , around AD 108 . |
| 25 | And he lived and slept downstairs because he could only afford to heat one room . |
| 26 | Professor Hoskins , perhaps because of the years he lived and taught in the Midland counties , dwells at considerable length on the impact of parliamentary enclosure on the English landscape . |
| 27 | His parents remember his fondness for writing , and in the groups that preceded The Wedding Present , he was clumsily relating the world in which he lived and trying to understand it through his own lyrics . |
| 28 | Norwood is now a fairly grubby inner London area , but when Camille Pissarro lived there in 1870 it was the very edge of the city , combining townscape and country in a way that Pissarro found particularly attractive ( he lived and worked on the outskirts of Paris for most of his career ) . |
| 29 | During the course of that regression he told me his name , his trade ( he was a cloth merchant ) and the fact that he lived and worked in the Bristol area . |
| 30 | Walthamstow , Julia Black : adaptation of a William Morris design ; he lived and worked in Walthamstow . |