Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He agreed to preside over a public meeting of the inhabitants of Dundee to be held on 10 November 1819 to protest against ‘ the unprovoked , cruel and cowardly attack made on the people of Manchester ’ and ‘ to suggest the means most likely to lead to a reform of abuses ’ . |
| 2 | Yes , you see he agreed to contribute to a suitable replacement upon terms that we agreed , what happens if terms are n't , ca n't be agreed ? |
| 3 | In the town of Newton Stewart , not too far from Annan , a solicitor , Giles Davies , lost £1.8 million from his clients ' accounts because he became embroiled in a similar deal . |
| 4 | With Jenny Blyth nowhere to be found — vindictive press reports claiming that the marriage of the decade was on the rocks — he became embroiled in an unseemly dispute with his own club . |
| 5 | It is typical of Richard that he accepted the task with alacrity and succeeded with such brilliance that almost overnight he became recognized as a famous warrior . |
| 6 | Later he became associated with a Christian denomination known as the Collegiants . |
| 7 | Paula Rojas , 18 , was ordered into a room while he got dressed in a green shirt and blue nylon jogging pants — the clothes he was found dead in . |
| 8 | There he got talking to a gaunt girl in an ash-stained black smock who claimed to have read his screenplay and who , over glasses of red wine , and later in the terrible pub , told him he was a weakling and a hypocrite with no notion of the ways of men and women . |
| 9 | For Green , the proposal of the Cambridge Board had major implications at national level and he sought to arrive at a local compromise to prevent a more widespread set of problems for the WEA . |
| 10 | He had , in fact , an extremely kind heart , which he tried to hide behind a quick , fierce manner — though this usually deceived no one . |
| 11 | " Are you — he tried to speak as a real writer would one of my regular readers ? " |
| 12 | He tried to concentrate on a claim-form but was unable to absorb the information . |
| 13 | But as he was going there , he stopped to rest on a soft , sandy hillside . |
| 14 | The family he proposed to house within a single room ( Fig. 27a ) could scarcely have cultivated the ‘ habit of neatness , and attention to cleanliness ’ which , he suggests , should do much to form ‘ the dispositions of the Labouring Class ’ . |
| 15 | Bettino Craxi , whose leadership of the Socialist Unity Party was under serious challenge [ see p. 39114 ] , announced on Nov. 7 that he proposed to resign at an unspecified date and suggested Prime Minister Giuliano Amato as his successor . |
| 16 | He dismissed conducting as a phoney profession , responsible for turning players into mindless dependents , powerless without the hypnotic beat of a little white stick in front of them . |
| 17 | Marron told police he 'd been copying what he 'd seen on a pornographic video : Judge Paul Clark said it showed how harmful such videos were . |
| 18 | It was a request from a colleague : he 'd be grateful if she could cast her eye over an article he 'd written for a quarterly journal , by Friday if possible . |
| 19 | It was as if he 'd gone into a different world . ’ |
| 20 | And although her slenderness gave her an air of fragility , Guy had felt the gentle curves of her body when he 'd searched for a concealed weapon . |
| 21 | The last revellers had finally been seen off at nine in the morning ; they and Margot had done some cleaning up before going to bed , though Ken had anyway had a couple of hours ' sleep between three and five , when he 'd fallen into a deep slumber on the wicker couch in the conservatory . |
| 22 | ‘ I will show you all the best of Roma , ’ he 'd announced with a modest smile , and , to be kind , Caroline supposed he was trying to do just that . |
| 23 | My favourite was a Wendy house which he 'd furnished with a tiny drop-leaf mahogany table , two matching chairs and a T.V. with clicking knobs and a picture of the Queen behind the perspex screen . |
| 24 | It was n't what I wanted — even then I did n't feel it was right to get Ebert thrown out of the force for something he 'd said in a heated moment . |
| 25 | After some confusion over the ordering , Haverford gave them a lengthy account of his love affair with one of a pair of identical twins whom he 'd met at a Red Mole party in 1965 . |
| 26 | He plumped for the Glaswegian accent he 'd used in a Thirty-Minute Theatre ( ‘ Pointless ' — The Times ) . |
| 27 | Was he going to give her some note on performance , some idea he 'd had for a new bit of business in the play ? |
| 28 | " All right then ? " he said , smiling again , his head a little on one side , a gesture he 'd had as a small boy . |
| 29 | It was as if , having goaded her to the point of total capitulation , he 'd opted for a wary cooling-off period . |
| 30 | For a few brief moments he 'd been able to forget the room and the bizarre encampment and Hennessy at his elbow , and he 'd conversed in a language that came to him now almost as readily as his first ; he 'd conversed with a dark-eyed alien . |