Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | VENTRILOQUIST Mike Dennett had a drink too many after he got fed up with listening to his wife Gladys . |
| 2 | He got chucked out for singing that . |
| 3 | Julie had asked him what was going on but he 'd rushed out without telling her , mumbling only that it was important and that he did n't know when he 'd be back . |
| 4 | Rescuing beleaguered maidens had a certain passing reward , but most of the time he 'd finished up by setting them up in some city somewhere with a handsome dowry , because after a while even the most agreeable ex-maiden became possessive and had scant sympathy for his efforts to rescue her sister sufferers . |
| 5 | The distinction between overseas and defence policy in 1951–5 was for Churchill almost as clear as that between the Defence Committee , which , with the Chiefs of Staff , he used to prosecute the Second World War , and the Lord President 's Committee under Anderson and Attlee , which he allowed to get on with handling the Home Front . |
| 6 | But if he went stomping by without saying anything it was a clear indication of trouble ahead . |
| 7 | He had gone back to calling her Maggie . |
| 8 | He had slipped up in using Tweed 's name because it had sounded as though he 'd been one of the casualties . |
| 9 | Rebecca West , representing the polite world of letters at this proletarian scene of retribution , was being told by an elderly man how he had come back from viewing his grandchildren 's bodies at the public mortuary and heard the voice of the condemned criminal mocking him over the radio . |
| 10 | It was one of a number he had picked up since leaving the charred ruins of Ankh-Morpork . |
| 11 | Really he wanted to get on with seeking to become a priest . |
| 12 | In early 1855 he intended to press on after assessing the degree of continuing Anglo-French hostility and the extent to which the Sultan 's Christian subjects had rallied to his banner . |