Example sentences of "[vb pp] [coord] he [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( a ) He can arrest where he has reasonable grounds for suspecting that an arrestable offence has been committed and he has reasonable grounds for suspecting the person to be guilty of the offence . |
| 2 | The Divine purpose of life is almost entirely forgotten and he spends each lifetime self-centredly chasing after vanishing mirages . |
| 3 | As the storm receded and the thunder became a distant grumbling , Cullam 's shoulders dropped and he lifted sullen eyes . |
| 4 | His face was rouged and he wore voluminous skirts covered in electric light bulbs — powered by a huge battery strapped to a leg . |
| 5 | There were many things he would have liked to have done but he needed this man , who , with a combination of chance and logic , could reach the truths which might affect the realm . |
| 6 | Two days later , he was dismissed and as a consequence of his dismissal , his unemployment benefit was stopped and he received reduced rate income support of , I understand , £23.79 a week . |
| 7 | The knot under his chin was still firmly fastened and he had extensive burns on his head and face . |
| 8 | Another six inch long wound on his stomach is not as deep , but the area is badly swollen and he has another inch deep wound on his front leg where the knife was stuck in . ’ |
| 9 | When Miss P said this to him Boy realised that he could n't actually imagine a man proposing something that he would n't want to do , or would n't at least want to try just once , but he understood what he was being told and he learnt that lesson well , thank God . |
| 10 | Thus he became known and he declined repeated calls to important churches before accepting the challenge of the debt-burdened Whitefield 's Tabernacle in Tottenham Court Road , London . |
| 11 | themselves and cut themselves and for , for Allah and whatnot hit and he had two policemen , now if they had , they 're , they 're not allowed to stop you and ask for your identification unless they have policeman with them , but they can arrest you and take you to their police station and they can be quite intimidating and , but they were going round , there was American service in there who have little cards written on it , they said they do n't have to cover their heads they , they 're allowed to do just as well as they please |
| 12 | No decision has been taken but he argues few countries include them , that they obscure the underlying trend and mean tightened monetary policy produces an illusory rise in monetary inflation . |
| 13 | He was in the restaurant kitchen late one night before closing up , knocking back the remains of four glasses of liqueur from a dirty table , when his head suddenly cleared and he heard some lines from the past in a devastating playback in his head : ‘ You 're better off without me ’ — Bella 's voice , coolly justifying herself to him on the telephone . |
| 14 | Er I , I was a messenger for a time for the er , we lived in Lane and I was a messenger for a time with the erm A R P headquarters in Drive , now when my uncle got married and he had two children and I 'd , they were issuing gas masks and I had to go down and fetch a gas mask for his daughter and they were great big ones that used to envelope the whole babies with a bellows on the side that the mothers used to have to pump when they were in them , thank goodness we never had to use them and erm |