Example sentences of "[adj] he [verb] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In all this he managed to avoid a direct confrontation with the security forces . |
| 2 | Man walks home and the man 's depressed , he walks like this he has to buy a new pair of trainers on the way home cos he 's dragging his feet on the floor so much . |
| 3 | By this he means acquiring a thin veneer of knowledge to mask his corruption . |
| 4 | There 's a vet like this he 's got a fucking bone in his mouth and the dogs his fucking leg . |
| 5 | he 's , he 's funny he does like a front room , so I thought well sod it , I hate picking carpets Jane , so I thought sod it he can pick |
| 6 | ‘ But he 's so brave he has made a wonderful comeback . |
| 7 | Either for that reason or another he 's got a monumental chip on his shoulder . |
| 8 | Now 26 he decided to make a major leap into white collar work . |
| 9 | Unaware he had obtained a new exit visa , Pyle waited till the following morning , then asked his bank staff in the Dharram office to check around the city and find out what Laing was doing there . |
| 10 | Although a scholar , and married with two sons , in 1677 he had got a young girl with child , and then murdered the child ; for which he was condemned to death . |
| 11 | In 1849 he had bought a wire-rope business which laid the first permanent transatlantic telegraph cable in 1866 . |
| 12 | By 1612 he had acquired a territorial estate valued at £6,000 per annum ; he had built a sumptuous palace at Hatfield and two town houses in the Strand — Great Salisbury House and Little Salisbury House ; he had put up an elaborate commercial structure , the New Exchange ; and he had bought potentially valuable building-plots in St Martin 's Lane . |
| 13 | Just before leaving France in 1940 he had given a final dinner party at the Ritz in Paris to members of his unit , but had inadvertently left without paying the bill . |
| 14 | The uppers had come completely away from the soles of the toes and the treads had been worn so smooth he had taken a hot knife to them in an attempt at a retread ! |
| 15 | Derain , although as early as 1904 he had executed a still life in which he seized in a more or less superficial way on some of the aspects of Cézanne 's art which were later to fascinate and influence the Cubists , did not begin to look at Cézanne really seriously until 1906 . |
| 16 | That 's okay he 's got a nice |
| 17 | I was sure he had had a gloating look in his eyes when he found out I had been robbed . |
| 18 | In no time at all he had made a good-sized hole in the riverbank . |
| 19 | He was already beneficed in the diocese of York , for in 1264 he had obtained a papal dispensation to hold the rectory of Welwick in Holderness with two other benefices with cure of souls . |
| 20 | Roger was prepared to co-operate with the subsequent regime of Simon of Montfort — in December 1264 he helped to arrange a temporary settlement with the Marcher barons — but he was not one of the bishops suspended from office after the battle of Evesham . |
| 21 | Moorcroft returned to England in 1791 , and in the spring of 1792 he began to conduct a veterinary practice . |
| 22 | Initial selection in such cases is by the eye of an experienced judge who will pick out only those he knows have a fair weight . |
| 23 | By 1949 he had become a central party figure , often acting as spokesman on minority issues . |
| 24 | Towards the end of 1949 he had met a young psychiatrist from Australia , Frank Tait . |
| 25 | In 1914 he had become a full-time trade union official rising to the general secretaryship of the Trades Union Congress in the 1920s . |
| 26 | For reasons not apparent he had become a reformed character : he worked diligently and spent long hours in the laboratory . |
| 27 | First he has to create a neutral police force . |
| 28 | But the poem of his that he most needed reassurance about was Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) , and for that he had to wait a long time . |
| 29 | Two or three months after that he 's got a new product out they 're trying to keep it slightly quiet and saying that it 's not a world beater and sort of er go back to their more in innovative . |
| 30 | By 1880 he had completed a large wing of workshops . |