Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] a [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gloucester Crown Court was told Gooch drove at over 80mph through the residential area as he tried to overtake a car driven by Anthony Gallagher . |
| 2 | He has devised a model based on the mathematics of fluid dynamics , that attempts to explain the genesis of simple geometric patterns seen during the early stages of drug-induced hallucinations ( International Journal of Quantum Chemistry , vol 22 , p 1059 ) . |
| 3 | All the same , he has written a book committed to proving that Europeans ought to unite . |
| 4 | At one point , Walter tries to convince his wife that he has had a story accepted by BBC Radio . |
| 5 | All he 's worried about is getting wickets , and he 's , as I think I said yesterday he starts to feel a bit frustrated with his lax control , the ball flows all over the place and then somehow or other he 's got at the , the real quality batsmen in the opposition side , he 's got DaSilva out , might have been a slightly lucky dismissal caught down the leg side and he 's got him out and he 's done that in every match he 's played , he 's given away runs pretty rapidly , but he keeps getting vital wickets as well . |
| 6 | At Cromcruach he 'd met a mechanic named Mike , who seemed in a terrible state . |
| 7 | He later admitted he 'd taken a tablet supplied by another pupil . |
| 8 | We were obviously impressed because he 'd got a record released . |
| 9 | But I know I could remember being taken round his school and in the main hall he 'd got a glass fronted cupboard , and he 'd got all sorts of well really and truly they were just pretty pebbles . |
| 10 | Fed up now with being a domestic skivvy , he is seen typing out the goodbye letter before leaving for Marrakech , where he plans to write a novel based on their sex life . |
| 11 | He decided to import a dog named Balthasar of Mallion , whose sire was Rudi Eulenspiegel of Mallion and whose dam was Quinta Eulenspiegel of Mallion . |
| 12 | He was not , in fact , an exponent of the martial arts , but for a few short but character-forming weeks during a university summer vacation he had boxed a kangaroo called Cobber in a travelling circus . |
| 13 | Before departing on the expedition to Benghazi , he had written a memorandum addressed to the Director of Military Training at MEHQ on the future of L Detachment . |
| 14 | He had written a book called Stilfragen on the history of the acanthus motif , and that I had studied as a student . |
| 15 | At his trial in December , Eamonn Melaugh , a prominent Derry republican , testified that he had seen a demonstrator struck in the groin . |
| 16 | Once he had seen a girl set upon by a gang of other girls on a descending escalator . |
| 17 | Now , he stared down at his Saturday suit and was afraid at the new possibility that he had become a man set in his ways , upset by change . |
| 18 | In 1770 at the age of nineteen he went to Italy , and a volume of drawings of friezes , urns , and classical ornaments which he made in Rome is preserved in the Mellon Collection : he later told the diarist , Joseph Farington [ q.v. ] , that he had become well acquainted with Piranesi , and that while abroad he had kept a journal written in Italian but had subsequently destroyed it because he was embarrassed by its poor linguistic quality . |
| 19 | Like Spurgeon he had worked his way up from humble beginnings — his father had been a Northumberland stone-mason — and like Spurgeon he had had a chapel built round him . |
| 20 | Mine months previously he had had a neoplasm removed from the left hemisphere which had resulted in some post-operative speech disturbances . |
| 21 | He had had a charter drawn up , which presumably contained a boundary clause , but this seems to have been less significant than the authority of the witnesses . |
| 22 | The senior Law Officer of the Crown , the Attorney-General , explained to the House that , on the question of the Shops Act 1950 , he had to make a decision based not on party politics but on the law . |
| 23 | He had brought a boy called Jay to meet her , in exactly the way Arthur had taken her to meet his mother all those years ago . |
| 24 | Mann stressed that he wished to see a solution based on substantial autonomy given to Punjab , within the framework of the Indian Constitution , but without recourse to an independent state . |
| 25 | He says that there have been occasions when he 's had a gun held to his head and been told to operate on someone 's brother first , or he 'd be shot . |
| 26 | He says he will have time enough to relax and carouse when he 's had a smash hit with his first novel . |
| 27 | It 's cards , he 's got a tie made of cards . |
| 28 | He 's got a ball stuck in his throat . |
| 29 | He 's got a girlfriend called Diane right , well you knew that did n't you ? |
| 30 | Yeah , Mike , Mike and , he 's erm I do n't think he 's , I think he will be able to in future he 's got a meeting arranged tonight and he 'll be here next time . |