Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | CW reported he had passed a list of requirements to meet EC Directive on Workstation H & S to IL , but he had not yet had time to discuss eye and eyesight testing requirements with M Prior . |
| 2 | Police even found he had hidden a piece of metal , which they believe he planned to file into a knife , hidden in the sole of his shoe . |
| 3 | ‘ Next day he packed his bags and I found he had taken a load of my clothes , ’ added Kim . |
| 4 | He found he had drawn a noose , remembered how Sandy Riverton had died inside the old bell tower , scribbled it out before Newman could see it . |
| 5 | Ken , meanwhile , believed he had found a play that suited his temperament and talents better than most of the things on which he had been working to date . |
| 6 | A CO Fermanagh pharmacist believed he had found a breakthrough in the treatment of psoriasis — the skin disease highlighted in the Singing Detective . |
| 7 | During the first war he 'd he 'd lost a ship and so finally he decided to buy a ship and he bought two little schooners in f in Porthmadog . |
| 8 | I 'd feel differently if she 'd made my father really happy , but , believe me , he soon learnt he 'd made a mistake in marrying Bertha . ’ |
| 9 | But he walked very purposefully erm straight up there and then I noticed he 'd got a hook |
| 10 | I assumed he 'd made a mistake , but suppose he had n't ? |
| 11 | In a telephone interview with the government-run radio station , Mr Chen Jun claimed he had become a victim of political games between the Chinese and Hong Kong Governments . |
| 12 | She was horrified until she guessed he had lit a cigarette . |
| 13 | Once again , however , he discovered he had struck a chord with ordinary people , people who had felt they were unfit to pass judgement on modern buildings because they lacked the qualifications . |
| 14 | Sinqe , who holds his country 's national record of 2hr 8min 4sec , was due to run his first marathon outside the republic in the NutraSweet-sponsored event on 18 April but London organisers were left fuming when they discovered he had run a marathon in Japan a fortnight ago in defiance of his contract which stipulated that he should not run a competitive marathon within 90 days of the big race . |
| 15 | Last night heartbroken Sandy , who lived with Brian at Didsbury , Manchester , said : ‘ Everyone who knew him has lost a part of themselves through this tragedy . |
| 16 | ‘ But he had started to drink heavily in recent months and Bernard felt he had become a liability . |
| 17 | He felt he had made a fool of himself . |
| 18 | But when he came to sit opposite her in the dining-room that first evening , he felt he had made a mistake . |
| 19 | At this moment she felt he had had a hand in cheating her out of some of her life , and the feeling made her coldly angry . |
| 20 | He agreed this name might be in error , but by convoluted etymological detective work he felt he had established a link between the Saxon word for a cleared strip of land and his lines . |
| 21 | Peter Rogers knew he had hit a gold mine , even if it did n't always seem to the performers that he was totally on their side . |
| 22 | Before they even touched he knew it had been wrong to come , he knew he had reopened a wound that would never heal and could never be soothed by consummation , unless the war should end soon and they should both survive . |
| 23 | And also I knew he 'd booked a holiday to go to Antigua , but me being totally ignorant about cricket , did n't realise he was going to watch the Antigua versus England test match in April , so that 's where he 's off to in April . |
| 24 | I knew he 'd got a boy , but |
| 25 | We knew he 'd taken a survival kit and space blanket on his trip , and that knowledge gave us hope . |
| 26 | When I spoke to Travis the other day I understood he 'd had a change of heart . ’ |
| 27 | Lambert looked at him with such energy that for a moment Killion thought he had discovered a way out of it . |
| 28 | He thought he had done a deal at £2.3 million . |
| 29 | The tsar thought he had found a model for ameliorating the condition of the peasants which the gentry would accept . |
| 30 | He thought he 'd heard a sound , there towards the end of the parapet at the top of the steps . |