Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] he [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From what he has heard he fears the worst about the likelihood of a quick turnaround on the field . |
| 2 | Germany pulled out of the joint project in July , but finance minister Theo Waigel has said he favours a scaled-down version of the plane costing £36 million to avoid job losses in times of recession . |
| 3 | In terms of foreign investment in US carriers , the transportation secretary , Federico Pena , has said he favours the current 25 per cent limit on voting stock owned by foreign investors and the 49 per cent limit on their overall investment . |
| 4 | EC commissioner Frans Andriessen , the EC 's chief negotiator , has said he has no immediate plans to meet US negotiators but developments could come today after a meeting of EC foreign ministers in Brussels . |
| 5 | Hindley has made him become a poor , dull farm worker . |
| 6 | He started taking his own photographs to publicise his collections when he got impatient with photographers who did not understand what he was trying to say ; this has lead him to launch a parallel career as a photographer and his work is much in demand by magazines who like his candid portraits of such luminaires as Caroline of Monaco . |
| 7 | At one level this has enabled him to achieve the considerable feat of maintaining reasonably stable government for more than twenty years . |
| 8 | Having bought back this establishment from his former employers , Trusthouse Forte , his new freedom from the body corporate has inspired him to create a serious £23 dinner menu and leave the comfortable grey-blue decor well alone . |
| 9 | Now his landlord , the Allied Brewery group , has invited him to accept a 10-year lease at a starting price of £36,000 a year . |
| 10 | The Argentinian has a permanent wrist injury caused by pounding too many balls on hard practice grounds , which has forced him to use an unorthodox fore-knuckle left- hand grip . |
| 11 | In video-taped evidence , Mr Reagan has admitted he approved the covert arms for hostages operation , that became known as the Iran Contra affair , although he says he did n't authorise his staff to break the law . |
| 12 | Now his success has been recognised by the Football League , which has chosen him to manage a Second Division Select 11 to play an equivalent team from the Italian League — at Caserta on the 4th of March . |
| 13 | I I 'd heard he wrote a few things . |
| 14 | But to the right of the window he 'd opened he found an old ivy creeper clawed to the brickwork . |
| 15 | He 'd thought he had the longest living hamster in captivity . |
| 16 | Since she must have known he had no sexual interest in her , she did n't complain too much . |
| 17 | The Establishment of Jesus 's day would have liked him to establish a political kingdom for the Jews , but he said , ‘ My Kingdom is not of this world . ’ |
| 18 | Blocking the BA/USAir deal would have required him to renounce the current aviation treaty between the two countries which would have been ‘ a very dramatic step ’ . |
| 19 | Blocking the BA/USAir deal would have required him to renounce the current aviation treaty between the two countries which would have been ‘ a very dramatic step ’ . |
| 20 | His years as a sculptor had taught him to see the human figure in solid , three-dimensional form , and his people now have necks like columns , oval or elongated faces and noses sharply drawn , as if cut into the planes of the face . |
| 21 | A month later a high-ranking army officer had heard him deliver the following verdict on integration : " They are not Provenals or Languedocians . |
| 22 | Cornelius signalled by a flicker of one eyebrow that he knew Harry had expected him to say the exact reverse . |
| 23 | No one had expected him to survive a massive cerebral haemorrhage |
| 24 | In December 1855 , he had instructed him to design a large extension to the Ordnance Office in Pall Mall to form a new War Department . |
| 25 | The Hibs manager , Alex Miller , was also disappointed , because leading scorer , Darren Jackson , had failed to shake off the stomach injury which had seen him miss the Scottish Cup victory over Cowdenbeath earlier in the week . |
| 26 | They had had faith , they had seen Jesus perform miracles , they had seen him heal the sick , they had seen him give sight to the blind , they had seen some of the tremendous things that Jesus had done . |
| 27 | Hindley Foster had obviously perceived her dilemma and understood it , even though he had said he had no intimate knowledge of procreation . |
| 28 | Charles had said he wanted a practical farmer on the council who knew something about estate management , and John Higgs was the man found for the job . |
| 29 | The times had made him mistrust the militant kinds of heroism , though he unjustly saw himself as deficient in fortitude of another sort . |
| 30 | His colleague Fleming 's humiliation on horseback had made him dread the same thing for himself . |