Example sentences of "he [verb] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made telling first half stops and saw his forwards come close to securing three points . |
| 2 | With Edie , he made drawing expeditions to Little Chart Forstal , Frittenden and Tenterden . |
| 3 | He made teaching his career and taught history and mathematics in preparatory schools in Somerset . |
| 4 | He made moving reference to its founding philosophy . |
| 5 | At the same moment he made stabbing movements , at shoulder height , with the bat . |
| 6 | Towards the end of his life he was an enthusiastic supporter of British involvement in the war of 1914–18 , for which he made recruiting speeches . |
| 7 | He made swishing noises indicating the beating of wings . |
| 8 | Look at the mess he made making a cup of tea . |
| 9 | There was the speech he made asking people to listen to his point of view . |
| 10 | During the eight short months that he lived following his resignation , he was plagued by a sense of foreboding that the future would hold a similar fate for himself . |
| 11 | He hates eating duck full of birdshot . |
| 12 | He hates shopping on a Saturday . |
| 13 | Oh as he said something , he loves driving , but he hates driving in London . |
| 14 | He hates sitting on the beach ; does nothing but moan . ’ |
| 15 | Choose a particular chore that you know he hates doing , such as mowing the lawn , weeding the garden or putting the dustbin out , and offer to do it yourself . |
| 16 | He hates waiting . |
| 17 | I do n't think he realised learning the facts of life was precisely what most of us would do if we stopped demonstrating and went back to bed . |
| 18 | Whitehall sources said he realised cancelling might damage the pound . |
| 19 | And what did he want coming to this back of beyond ? ’ |
| 20 | On 26 June he records shooting a wattle-cheeked honeyeater ‘ on the ranges near the Upper Torrens ’ ; he ‘ killed a Bittern on the 1st July near the Murray , above Gleeson 's Station ’ ; collected red throats ‘ about forty miles north of Lake Alexandrina ’ ; spotted a white-eyebrowed pomatorhinus ‘ near the bend of the river Murray ’ ( perhaps it was this remark that led some to guess that it was the great west bend to which Gould referred ) ; and shot a pink robin in ‘ a deep ravine under Mount Lofty ’ ( this was the last time an example of this species , Petroica rodinogaster was seen in South Australia , although one or two reliable observers said they had seen specimens in the area many years previously ) . |
| 21 | In Scintilla ( 1641 ) he attacked printing monopolies , named monopolists , and urged that the Stationers ' Company should be run more democratically . |
| 22 | He had given her the capital for the first one on their twentieth wedding anniversary , when he had already bought a Georgian pendant that he dearly wished her to have , but before he chanced giving it to her he had asked her what she would like , and she told him . |
| 23 | Whilst discussing Derwentwater he discourages drawing from a boat or small island , ‘ the passion for boat prospects is owing to the delusive fascinations of the water . ’ |
| 24 | In particular , Haslam found the camaraderie he experienced working alongside mineworkers extremely rewarding . |
| 25 | He passed bivouacking troops on their way up , and had to stand in gateways while supply columns clattered by , or lines of ambulances rumbled back . |
| 26 | He agreed missing his son 's engagement had been the last straw . |
| 27 | ‘ Tonight he goes swimming with the PT teacher in charge . |
| 28 | Watch him wobble onto the dance floor as he goes looking for a decent record collection ( ie no Alice Cooper or Frank Zappa ) in CodeMasters ' happenin' hit … |
| 29 | ‘ There he goes getting defensive . |
| 30 | If he goes hunting through the texts for a quick recipe for gold or earthly power he 'll soon get lost , give up . |