Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb pp] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has pledged to give greater state help to the estimated 37 million people not covered by health insurance in the USA . |
| 2 | He has gone to meet ordinary people . |
| 3 | Nelson says he has striven to maintain that balance rather than provide a recording of the set pieces interspersed with insubstantial spoken passages . |
| 4 | The measures he has adopted to achieve this objective include : |
| 5 | I put him on notice that we shall ask him what he has done to provide extra resources to the prison service . |
| 6 | It rankles Couples , who had two three-week breaks last year , that many critics rate him an uninterested under-achiever and that he has failed to win more tournaments because he is so laid back . |
| 7 | However , the builder may be expected to make some contribution towards travelling time and costs where he has failed to obtain suitable sub-contract labour within the vicinity of the site and a subcontractor is requested to travel an excessive distance . |
| 8 | He has chosen to take early retirement to protect his long-term health having undergone major heart surgery three years ago . |
| 9 | He has tried to work similar magic at the unwieldy Energy Department . |
| 10 | He has refused to rush legislative changes through , but he has not ruled out proposals on electoral reform which could be put before the electorate either in a referendum or at the next general election . |
| 11 | Now , the other two subjects I 'm really only dealing because the people responsible are , are not here in the flesh this afternoon but Alyd the provincial advocate and I I think of Bill that 's also gone too , er yes he he has , he has had to leave this afternoon . |
| 12 | ‘ Faber would not be for sale even at the right price , ’ commented Matthew Evans a touch wearily — this being by no means the first time he has had to deny such rumours . |
| 13 | At his two shops in Reigate , Surrey , and Beckenham , Kent , he has had to replace full-time staff with part-timers and made a manageress redundant last year . |
| 14 | A somewhat lonely figure , often mocked for his retreats to the Kalahari or the Hebrides , he has managed to tap popular concern about the environment , education , and racial disadvantage . |
| 15 | By buying his fish small and young he has managed to keep several species together successfully . |
| 16 | If he thinks that he can come back to the House , whatever the supine press may say , and present it as a triumph for Britain that he has managed to prevent those provisions from being applied in this country , although they are being applied everywhere else , he shows that the Government are not only economically bankrupt but bankrupt of values . |
| 17 | Does he not recall that he has promised to increase public expenditure , to cut taxes and to balance the budget ? |
| 18 | He 'd gone to get those tickets . |
| 19 | His throat was dry and he 'd forgotten to buy any candy . |
| 20 | But Mr laird said he 'd have stopped if he 'd had to use excessive force . |
| 21 | Is he I did n't know he 'd started doing advanced French . |
| 22 | Once or twice he 'd — well he 'd tried to make some sort of advances to her . |
| 23 | Nor does he feel compelled to decide later cases " by analogy " to earlier ones , at least when there is room for disagreement about whether a later case is really like or unlike them . |
| 24 | When Picasso 's art became truly Cubist , in 1909 , he had begun to see solid forms in a new pictorial way , without the aid of linear or mathematical perspective . |
| 25 | He had begun to paint some portraits with one eye ‘ blind ’ , the other seeing . |
| 26 | Churchill had been the latest bone of contention , as he had begun to make public speeches which Chamberlain clearly found embarrassing . |
| 27 | He had begun to have wet dreams ; early in the morning , he would find his thighs soaked with semen beneath his nightshirt . |
| 28 | Jonathan told John Goldring , QC , prosecuting , that after her arrival he had begun to suffer dizzy spells and developed an addiction for chocolate . |
| 29 | He could believe some drunken classics student had run amok with a spray-can , but not that he had chanced to write two words of no classical significance beneath the window of the room where Harry happened to be staying . |
| 30 | Now he faces an uphill struggle to be fit in time for the British Clubman 's championship a series he had hoped to win this season . |