Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell the DI why ; I tell him about two more betrayals ; about the commanding officer who had let men die to cover up his own inadequacy ( or at least Andy believed he had , which was all that mattered ) , and I tell him about the locum doctor who could n't be bothered to attend a patient and then , when he eventually did pay a visit , just assumed her pain was something trivial . |
| 2 | But he rarely had to spend a lunchtime without a game . |
| 3 | And he only had to wait a couple of erm points left on his licence so if I 'd taken the dangerous thriving or something he could have lost his licence but erm that 's besides the point . |
| 4 | He just happened to have a pint of Guinness with a perfect head on it in his pocket . |
| 5 | When he was a child , an artist visited his school — he happened to be a musician — and left behind him an impression of a man very clearly committed to his chosen subject , and a feeling of passion for doing something you really want to do , that stayed with Paul for years until he finally decided to become a photographer . |
| 6 | If Thorkell had once dreamt of dominating the young king then he had dreamt in vain , although he soon proceeded to occupy a position in Denmark which would cause further problems within the next two years . |
| 7 | He already seemed to know a hell of a lot and taught me a lot about living , philosophy and music . |
| 8 | It was part of the evidence he was collecting against himself : he locked at Blighty furtively in the barber 's ; he tried drawing women , sometimes in the nude , always with big busts , in a drawing-book he kept hidden at home ; he desperately wanted to kiss a girl to find out what it was like . |
| 9 | He still had to have a medical . |
| 10 | But he still had to find a wife . |
| 11 | She often forgot how handsome Georg was , especially lately when he always seemed to have a scowl on his face . |
| 12 | Besides , he always began creating a character from the voice . |
| 13 | He once tried to found a citizens ' police under the ‘ Fifth Estate ’ to monitor the doings of the FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency . |
| 14 | He usually started drawing a figure from a certain point and then worked outwards , as if his drawings worked from within to without ; but in addition they were also extremely beautiful drawings in their own right . |
| 15 | He also denied doing a runner . |
| 16 | He also arranged to have a guitar I wished to sell collected on my behalf — all this and a wicked deal to boot ! |
| 17 | He also agreed to pay a record $600 million in penalties : $200 million in fines and $400 million to injured investors . |
| 18 | The lay brother , a simple soul , could name the flowers , the different varieties of heather and the birds which wheeled and soared with joy above them : he also taught Ranulf a song in broad Scots about the dangers of being a young girl alone on the moors with a young gallant . |
| 19 | He also sought to draw a distinction between an unlawful demand made under an ultra vires instrument and one made under an intra vires instrument which was misconstrued or misapplied . |
| 20 | And he also failed to hold a Gary Lineker shot which produced Spurs ' third goal . |
| 21 | At school he did ‘ extraordinarily badly ’ by his own admission and he also failed to obtain a degree in agriculture at Cambridge University , but with his sights firmly fixed on a career in the family business , such academic shortcomings represented no real handicap . |
| 22 | He also tried to create a smokescreen by engaging in a pointless quibble about the statistics on how many people will be affected by his proposals . |
| 23 | In 1698 he equipped two ships to explore the Mississippi ; he also tried to encourage a Huguenot settlement on the Gulf of Mexico , and to float a joint-stock company to exploit Florida . |
| 24 | He also happened to have a wager on the outcome of the football game . |
| 25 | He also considered buying a castle in the Borders and converting it , but all the available properties were too distant from any population centres or local infrastructure of any significance . |
| 26 | He probably had to make a phone call or something , Ronni decided , her eyes following him as he disappeared inside . |
| 27 | But Hilary not only encouraged this hero-worship , he really seemed to make a friend of Pickerage . |
| 28 | He really wanted to do a play on maybe Broadway at the time — something different . ’ |
| 29 | Ever the gentleman he even managed to pick a Michael Fallon sticker off the bottom of a ladies ' shoe , only to get it stuck on his own . |
| 30 | He even managed to bring a touch of real culture to the island , having arrived with tea ( leaves not bags ) and a teapot . |