Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As this summer , even hotter and drier than the last , worked its way up to August , Robert found he had developed a rich repertoire of twitches and guilty tics . |
| 2 | In spite of his attempts to concentrate as much work as possible into his days in London , he still found he had to take a great deal of it back to Shamley Green . |
| 3 | He believed he had found a good humoured gentleman in Holland who would send him plants , but was critical of him for overheating his stoves . |
| 4 | He believed he had had a determining influence on Modigliani 's evolution although the painter was too haughty to admit it . |
| 5 | He recalled he had suffered a terrible nightmare ; so vivid that even when his eyes were open and he was screaming for his mammy , the nightmare would not leave him . |
| 6 | Yesterday Mr Dixon confirmed he had made a formal complaint about Mr Fallon based on information received from another member . |
| 7 | An applicant for a job with a finance company claimed he had taken a lengthy career break which turned out to be a prison term for robbery . |
| 8 | One Colombian film , which used non-professional actors to portray the lives of Medellin street kids , was so faithful to local speech patterns that one Argentine cinema-goer confessed he had understood a mere 10% of the dialogue . |
| 9 | Mr Wiseman also hinted he had found a prominent milk producer to lead his attempt to recruit dairy farmers to supply milk directly to his dairies . |
| 10 | Des Little the signing from Swansea has been rested because er Frank Clarke felt he 'd lost a little bit of confidence in Forest 's poor start to the season . |
| 11 | Everybody knew he had become a lame duck . ’ |
| 12 | Nigel was not quite sure Eleanor believed him , but he knew he had presented a plausible explanation . |
| 13 | He had a client who thought he had missed a fabulous bargain when he refused to buy a paste cross from an impoverished Russian aristocrat . |
| 14 | ARSENAL striker Ian Wright said after the game he thought he had snatched a late winner for Arsenal before Woods made a superb 89th minute save . |
| 15 | Time and time again he would stare at the ground , hand on hip , if he thought he had received a bad call , and then swallow his anger and play tennis . |
| 16 | In 1810 , the Russian industrialist Jacob Sannikov stood on the New Siberian Islands , looked to the north and thought he had discovered a new land-mass . |
| 17 | He thought he had done a good job . |
| 18 | His goggles filled up with water and he thought he had swum a whole length under water , and was so pleased that no one bothered to disillusion him . |
| 19 | The man later told police he thought he 'd struck a cardboard box . |
| 20 | His jacket was torn off during the first verse and his shirt during the second , then the Little Sweep realized he had made a monumental error and tried to tell the two schoolmasters not to remove his trousers . |
| 21 | Did he plan to form a national government , or was it an expedient forced upon him by circumstances ? |
| 22 | As he spoke he began to take a backward step , and for an instant Gentle 's dizzied brain almost thought it possible the man would retreat into nothingness ; be proved spirit rather than substance . |
| 23 | Now he hoped he had found a fatal flaw in his wife 's plans and they could , as usual , spend the summer holiday with his mother in Dorset . |
| 24 | I just hoped he 'd had a good surveyor on the job before committing himself . |
| 25 | He said he had made a full examination of the submissions made to him by the council and by Mrs Kemp . |
| 26 | The court 's verdict on Jampa Ngodrup 's case said he had asked a young monk working at the Barkor Clinic to compile a list of people detained as a result of violent clashes between police forces and demonstrators on 5 March 1988 . |
| 27 | Art had always tried to give back what he had gained in life , he felt grateful for what he felt he had to be given , some said he 'd achieved a great deal , but in his heart he felt fate had dealt him with him gently and you have to make the most of the lo of the card life deals you . |
| 28 | His Defence Counsel said he 'd suffered a great deal since his arrest and said the real punishment had already happened away from court . |
| 29 | He said he 'd done a wonderful job in very difficult circumstances . |
| 30 | He said he 'd had a hard life . |