Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If your father 'e 'ad listened to the nurse and called for the doctor and not for the priest — puh ! ’ |
| 2 | They pictured him lying abandoned to the grip of despair . |
| 3 | Those who heard him lecture remarked on the way he seized on and illustrated the most interesting parts of his subject , so that he was intelligible to the novice and listened to with pleasure by even the best informed , generally leading his class unresistingly to the desired conclusion . |
| 4 | This is what Gustave told me : that it was no sadness for him to get rid of the paperweight , because he had another which did the work just as efficiently . |
| 5 | ( 4 ) It is hereby declared that a person shall not be entitled to rely on the defence provided by subsection ( 1 ) above by reason of his reliance on information supplied by another , unless he shows that it was reasonable in all the circumstances for him to have relied on the information , having regard in particular ( a ) to the steps which he took , and those which might reasonably have been taken , for the purpose of verifying the information ; and ( b ) to whether he had any reason to disbelieve the information . |
| 6 | My father related that , when he was in the panel advising the consul Ducenius Varus , his own view prevailed , when Otacilius Catulus had instituted his daughter sole heir , left a legacy of two hundred to a freedman , and requested that he should make that over to his concubine ; and then the freedman had predeceased the testator , and the legacy to him had remained with the daughter ; that the daughter should be compelled to make over the trust to the concubine . |
| 7 | For on that Saturday Mr Pozsgay organised a radio interview to tell the world that a party committee working under him had come to the conclusion that 1956 had been a popular uprising , thus ensuring that the terms of reference in Hungarian politics would never be the same again . |
| 8 | Mill sets about resolving the situation in a way that causes him to become embroiled in a world of sex , violence and corruption . |
| 9 | For example , Peter Matthiessen 's account of his astonishing journey on foot , with limited supplies in the face of overwhelming winter snows , from Nepal to the Crystal Mountain in Tibet where he goes fired with the hope of seeing the rare , almost mythical , snow leopard , expresses a pattern of experience that is at the heart of the awareness of the medieval mystics with whom this book is concerned . |
| 10 | If he was a difficult friend , he could also be a loyal one — the most notable example , of course , is that of Ezra Pound whom he continued to support and defend even though it meant that he became embroiled in the kind of public controversy which he detested . |
| 11 | He became absorbed in the task , grumbling at the stiffness of the holding screws . |
| 12 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates , generally regarded as the wealthiest person in the US , is no longer the country 's most eligible bachelor — he became engaged over the weekend to 28- year-old Melinda French , a Dallas-born product manager at Microsoft who joined Microsoft in 1987 and is now product manager for the Microsoft Publisher desktop publishing programme . |
| 13 | Next , making the grand tour to Rome , he became inspired by the landscapes of Claude Lorraine , Nicolas Poussin , and Salvator Rosa . |
| 14 | In The German Ideology Marx had used Tacitus as his source for tribal German society , but by the time of Formen he became influenced by the nationalist and romantic nineteenth-century tradition of German historiography , a tradition which was to influence him even more later on , and which was to have a dramatic and harmful effect on Engels . |
| 15 | Though lithographs by Minton are few in number , he became fascinated by the medium , and on 24 November 1948 took part in a Third Programme broadcast on the subject , timed to coincide with the Victoria and Albert Museum exhibition , ‘ 150 Years of Lithography ’ . |
| 16 | Nuttall 's happening did n't go as expected , when he became jammed in the bath in which he had placed himself , and Latham fainted while trying to drag him out . |
| 17 | When Paul was encouraged at Corinth by the fellowship of Priscilla and Aquila we read that he became gripped by the Word ( 18:5 ) . |
| 18 | He became impressed with the superiority of the French and Belgian kite-balloons over his own spherical type , reported accordingly to the Admiralty , and was promptly recalled to initiate kite-balloon training at Roehampton in March 1915 . |
| 19 | With Wilfred Rhodes [ q.v. ] ever-present in the Yorkshire XI , Verity played league cricket for Rawdon , Accrington , and Middleton before he became established in the Yorkshire team in 1930 . |
| 20 | Here , and again in London as resident scenic artist for the Grand Opera Syndicate at Covent Garden , he became frustrated by the conservatism of management with regard to production and scenery , and returned to America after the outbreak of war in 1914 , having been rejected for military service because of deafness . |
| 21 | His friend Max Jacob was just about to be received into the Catholic church when he became entangled in the affairs of Modi and Beatrice . |
| 22 | The start of the last play was delayed as ‘ Jesus ’ had elected to travel in his own car rather than on the lorry , and he became entangled in the mysteries of the town 's traffic system . |
| 23 | Reid 's star began to rise with a vengeance last year when he became associated with the stable of Peter Chapple-Hyam who provided him with the horse every jockey wants to have — a Derby winner . |
| 24 | Through Colquhoun and MacBryde , who were receiving patronage from two sisters who lived in Lewes , Mrs Frances Byng Stamper and Caroline Byng Lucas , he became associated with the Society of London Painters-Printers which set up in 1948 , in conjunction with the Redfern Gallery . |
| 25 | At court he became associated with the faction led by George Digby , second Earl of Bristol , and Henry Bennett , first Earl of Arlington [ qq.v. ] , and friendly with the king 's mistress , Barbara Villiers , Countess of Castlemaine [ q.v . ] . |
| 26 | The myth developing around Johnson took on an existence of its own and he became known as a hero of black folklore , fitting into that tradition of ‘ bad niggers ’ , moral hard men who were , according to Lawrence Levine , ‘ admired because they had the strength , courage and ability to flout the limitations imposed by white society ’ ( 1977 , p.420 ) . |
| 27 | When he became known as the composer of marches and was about to take up his first bandmaster post , his wife suggested he use the letters on his case , S.O.U.S.A. as a professional name , and he took the names of his sons as his Christian names . |
| 28 | In fact he was so huge that he became known as the Paunch of Misty Mountain , or simply as Grom the Fat . |
| 29 | Part of the crest on his ducal coat of arms was a lion , and he became known as the Lion of Venice . |
| 30 | In response the Syrian-based Seljuk dynasty fought back , especially through the exploits of the Kurd Salah al-Din ( Saladdin as he became known in the West ) who himself took Egypt establishing his own Ayyubid dynasty in 1171 . |