Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The boys around him had looked at each other . |
| 2 | Then , too , Colin Watson was particularly adept in the creation of the detective he chose to investigate , or struggle with , the curious crimes he made to happen in everyday Flaxborough . |
| 3 | And Reynolds said he planned to return to indoor competition in the next couple of months and hoped to compete in both the world indoor and outdoor championships . |
| 4 | He agreed to talk to I Lawrie regarding existing plans . |
| 5 | It was normal , moreover , as in earlier generations , for a diplomat going to one of the more out-of-the-way capitals , if he expected to stay for any length of time , to equip himself with a mass of essentials which might be difficult or impossible to obtain at his destination . |
| 6 | Afterwards , oesophagoscopy was repeated twice as he failed to respond to conservative management . |
| 7 | Erm but he got he got sidetracked by this guy , and they were talking and he he mentioned a photograph , and he got in like you know . |
| 8 | Kevin said : ‘ The front wheels ran over him and he got caught by one leg . |
| 9 | He admitted driving with excess alcohol but said he should n't be banned . |
| 10 | Adish Sadik , 28 , of Chadburn Road , Norton , Stockton , was fined a total of £250 with £40 costs by Thirsk magistrates yesterday after he admitted driving without due care and attention and speeding last June . |
| 11 | He sought to show by ingenious argument that it must be false because he could find thought experiments which circumvented it . |
| 12 | as he tried to explain in rhyming verse |
| 13 | While an angry woman in a cardigan sadly toasted herself a crumpet by the jet of a gas f ; re , he tried to shift to another topic . |
| 14 | He tried to brake with this ice-axe but started turning great cartwheels , bouncing all the way down . |
| 15 | His " Basis and directives for a Plan for economic recovery , in harmony with our national reconstruction " viewed the fundamental problem as the Spanish trade deficit , which he proposed to eliminate by massive state intervention to stimulate exports and reduce imports . |
| 16 | ‘ He promised to stay in regular contact , but I have n't received a single phone call . ’ |
| 17 | DR DAVID OWEN , the former SDP leader , gave his endorsement yesterday to Mr Major , saying he deserved to continue as Prime Minister . |
| 18 | He 'd answered with some folderol about seeking the ideal woman , but he 'd known the truth even as he was spinning her this tosh , and it was a bitter thing . |
| 19 | They 'd no internal passports in this tiny country , but from what he 'd seen of this building they had computers the like of which the Leningrad Militia could only dream about . |
| 20 | ‘ I was sharing a cell with an Irishman and he reckoned he 'd heard from another man in there that there was a plan to kill MacQuillan . |
| 21 | Transfer-listed Davenport could n't remember the last time he 'd played alongside deadly Don in the league . |
| 22 | A woman once wrote to me , desperately upset , because , while going through her dead husband 's effects , she 'd found love letters he 'd written to another woman . |
| 23 | He 'd ducked into this bar for a stiffener , something to calm his nerves . |
| 24 | The closest he came to exercise was to open one eye every so often , if someone entered the room , or to open both eyes , smile , and wag his tail as he 'd done on one occasion when confronted by a housebreaker ! |
| 25 | ‘ I mean , we 've never heard him DJing , we just really liked the stuff he 'd done with Primal Scream , and as for Fluke , well , we 'd heard a lot of really good things about them — plus they 're signed to Creation . ’ |
| 26 | and what he 'd done to this pillow was no one 's business . |
| 27 | Then she discovered he 'd gone off any idea of tucking into the delights of her home-made lasagne anyway as , without another word , he turned and headed out of the kitchen . |
| 28 | At least he 'd fallen off this side of the wall , he would n't have to jump it again . |
| 29 | He 'd come for an evening 's entertainment and , though the food was good , he 'd reckoned on stronger meat . |
| 30 | Though he 'd driven through this area many times — he had a warehouse in the neighbourhood — he recognized none of it . |