Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] he [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chow-chow sank his teeth into Ravi Bhatiasevi 's arm when he tried to stop him fighting another dog . |
| 2 | Because of his principles he had n't served in the Forces and they 'd made him do labouring jobs instead , so that now his hands were n't what they used to be either . |
| 3 | She said she 'd got him to agree that day and it was no use arguing because it was her price for keeping her promise to be silent about her work on the other paintings . ’ |
| 4 | On her return , she 'd found him entertaining several field officers from the nearby KOSB battalion . |
| 5 | She turned to see him standing ten yards away . |
| 6 | She was impressed , and agreed to let him exhibit some work in one of the long corridors leading from reception to the dining-room . |
| 7 | The council said : ‘ We offered to help him find private accommodation . ’ |
| 8 | Temperament and conviction combined to make him see this moment , not as one of intriguing human possibilities , but as one offering an unofficial means to an official end . |
| 9 | Those who did know him had little idea that he was a dangerous psychotic , who nurtured a deep hatred for his parents . |
| 10 | Rough told how his wife Michelle had taught him to keep fresh food away from detergents . |
| 11 | She had heard him use that tone of voice in the past and knew exactly what it meant . |
| 12 | It was the first time I had heard him play great music , and I was moved as I had been by the Bonnards ; moved in a different way , but still moved . |
| 13 | There Tyndale wrote to urge him to avoid any discussion of the Sacraments , but he failed to take this advice and was convicted as a heretic precisely on this question and was burned . |
| 14 | Sitthi explained that the ASEAN countries had instructed him to communicate these principles for a settlement to the Soviet leadership . |
| 15 | Karen , very tired and possibly a little drunk , realised slowly that she had seen him deploy this technique before , at an earlier dinner in the house , and that somehow it was probably quite offensive . |
| 16 | The Shah 's own eyes 's were wet , This was not the first time that his officers had seen him show such emotion . |
| 17 | It was the first time I had seen him reveal any emotion in his face , and it had something of the intensity of grief . |
| 18 | " Funny , being a bird-watcher , " a boy called Cosgrave had once said and Stephen had made him take that back , twisting his arm until he agreed to . |
| 19 | She had thought he wanted ordinary satisfactions . |
| 20 | Even his colleagues had been alarmed by James Harding 's confused state of mind , and had persuaded him to seek medical help . |
| 21 | But the demon which had driven him to drink that night , after months of abstinence , had him in its thrall . |
| 22 | This had entailed him working long hours . |
| 23 | Now he acknowledged to himself that his admiration for Sarah had caused him to overlook young Martha 's attractions . |
| 24 | The Duke of Newcastle , an amiable obliging man whose sense of duty and failure to perceive his own inadequacies had led him to become Prime Minister in the last months of peace and to preside over the move to war , was now very well aware that things were falling apart . |
| 25 | As to the teaching profession , he said that he could have wished me to have obtained a less demanding post , if I wanted to write , because his experience at Highgate School had led him to believe that teaching , if conscientiously undertaken , was one of the most exhausting of occupations ; and , though I do not regret the experience , I was to discover that regarding its rigours he was right . |
| 26 | At St Martin 's she had imagined him crossing that limit but his mind refusing to accept the memory of it . |
| 27 | Ronald Whyte , chief executive of Aberdeen cooperage machinery manufacturer , Schoolhill Engineering , spoke for most of the mission members when he said that the recession and the exchange rate advantage had encouraged him to seek new markets in France . |
| 28 | Gould 's experiences so far had encouraged him to expect similar rewards from the next leg of the expedition , and he left Van Diemen 's Land in a spirit of optimism and with a light heart . |
| 29 | The thought had kept him going all day . |
| 30 | Mr Roh 's advisers had urged him to delay any cabinet reshuffle to avoid the impression that he was simply responding to the students ' demands . |