Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [verb] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Christopher — more talkative than usual — was animated in his description of the Highlands , where he had taken several long walks with Alastair . |
| 2 | Benji Durden , who ran in the 1980 Olympic marathon , lives in Boulder , Colorado , where he has coached several élite runners , including Kim Jones , twice a runner-up in the New York City Marathon . |
| 3 | In an order broadcast on Feb. 26 Saddam instructed his troops to withdraw immediately from Kuwait , although he continued to present all military developments in terms of Iraqi victory . |
| 4 | He was lucky to survive , although he did suffer some permanent damage . ’ |
| 5 | Although he has received some personal encouragement from the COSE chieftains , he can not tell whether they will be predisposed to adopt his technology again . |
| 6 | Although he has received some personal encouragement from the COSE chieftains , he can not tell whether they will be predisposed to adopt his technology again . |
| 7 | And although he has seen some strange sights down the Big Apple 's drains , the real-life Mario has never had to fight off fire-breathing dragons or deadly piranha flowers . |
| 8 | It was only after his second marriage , when he was able to share his life with another human being , that he began to take any real satisfaction in his life 's work . |
| 9 | The Chancellor announced in last November 's Autumn Statement that he wished to enhance this private sector involvement . |
| 10 | I do n't know anything about Mr Rochester 's character , but I do know that he offered to marry this young girl , who only discovered during the wedding ceremony that he was in fact already married , to a mad woman . |
| 11 | Where he was intellectually confused was that he failed to see any close connection between the economic stance of his Government and its industrial problems . |
| 12 | It seems that he had suffered some ill health as in his letter to Lord Burghley in 1585 , he complains of being weak and sick . |
| 13 | felt that he had to justify this long |
| 14 | He was still convinced that there was something wrong and said that he had noticed some urethral discharge first thing in the morning and also a slight ‘ tingle ’ when he first passed urine in the day . |
| 15 | The results were favourable and there began a series of trials which ‘ convinced him that he had made some valuable discoveries ’ . |
| 16 | Certainly the picture of him during this period is of a man haunted by guilt and remorse ; it seems that he felt he had no right to happiness , and the death of his wife had only served to convince him that he had done some irreparable harm to another human being , for which he must undergo a period of punishment . |
| 17 | The count 's cold voice and his return to formality assured Maggie that he had seen this small action and now he sat beside her with a set look on his face that told her he might very well not speak for the whole of the journey . |
| 18 | Although Hardy came to declare that no book of his had ever contained less of himself , it is difficult not to see in Jude a symbolic statement of all that he had found most disappointing in his life and in the human condition in general . |
| 19 | In a speech on Kabul radio Najibullah said that he had ordered all provincial governors and local organizations to declare a ceasefire in their areas provided the mujaheddin agreed to abide by it . |
| 20 | The waiter left and the man at the table felt satisfied that he had negotiated this basic exchange successfully . |
| 21 | For his defence , he would have to rely on one of the defences in section 24 ( paragraph 16–22 below ) , which would involve showing that he had taken all reasonable steps ( to withdraw the brochure etc. ) to avoid committing the offence . |
| 22 | It seemed to him that he had intercepted some secret communication between them . |
| 23 | Well I think that he 's got some educational interest . |
| 24 | Morgan ( 1975 : 442 ) asks ‘ What can we infer about the speaker 's intentions from the fact that he has chosen this particular description , rather than any of the others which would call to mind the same referent ? ’ |
| 25 | He himself was considered too old for general naval duties so he began to teach these young folk to be first class fishermen . |
| 26 | Gould got what he considered to be the best out of Darwin and the Beagle : he had published a number of scientific papers on the exciting discoveries and new species contained in Darwin 's collection , and he had produced another important illustrated work . |
| 27 | But he was the first step on the path to those persons and he had to get this right ! |
| 28 | He lives in the Stroud District and he 'd demanding that local people should be refunded the £7 million they 've paid in water charges . |
| 29 | And it were right nice , and he 'd done some lovely onion gravy ! |
| 30 | That Mr Randall was a sharp one and he 'd tried that hard to set up a fight . |