Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 On the Monday he phoned bosses back in England to tell them he would not be coming back , and that he planned to build a new life with their money .
2 After dinner he planned to make a proper start on sorting out the contents of the house .
3 ALAN Hickman from Derbyshire became worried about the advice he was receiving over his pension transfer when he realised that each expert he consulted recommended a different course of action .
4 Charles , who had a taste for mechanical devices , commissioned Gionallo Torriano of Cremona to repair it , but owing to corrosion he found that this was impossible and he agreed to make a similar instrument .
5 Terry Long was always a welcome visitor to Selhurst Park , but it was an enormous pleasure to everyone connected with Crystal Palace when he agreed to make a public return here in October 1984 to give recognition to Jim Cannon , who is the one man to have played more games for us than Terry himself did .
6 He invented the morning press conference for the purpose of calling an afternoon press conference to say he expected to make a shattering announcement later in the day . ’
7 But he recovered to plant a glorious chip over Kelly from 20 yards .
8 Dr Jones , of Coggeshall , was found guilty by the General Medical Council last month , which heard that he failed to detect a serious case of appendicitis , prescribing instead indigestion and ulcer tablets .
9 Clearly unnerved by the physical presence of Mark Hateley , he failed to clutch a looping cross by Robertson .
10 But he failed to achieve a clean sweep of the end-of-season awards .
11 Although he insisted that he had done nothing remiss — he admitted receiving a 5,000,000 yen loan from an associate of the firm in 1989 but claimed to have repaid the money — he agreed to resign from the party ( but not from the Upper House ) for having caused embarrassment to the SDPJ .
12 He admitted remaining a staunch supporter of the Meat and Livestock Commission which had done excellent work over the years .
13 STEWART McCutcheon , 23 , of Oxford Terrace , Bishop Auckland , was put on probation for two years yesterday after he admitted assaulting a 21-month-old baby in his care , causing actual bodily harm .
14 Encouraged by the new legislation , he sought to become a big player on the local production scene .
15 John , 43 , whose weight has dropped to 8st 12lb , said that he tried to live a normal life for as long as possible .
16 He tried to sing a great deal , but it was difficult to hear what .
17 And , since you asked , she once went for a policeman with her stilettoes as he tried to bundle a black man into a car outside a dance hall on the bottom of the Tottenham Court Road ( derogatory remarks in that department were still more likely to earn a black eye than a black look in The Bar ) .
18 When he tried to construct a few sentences in his mind — excusing himself — excusing Rose — they did n't sound lucid .
19 Not least of this chairman 's social misdemeanours was that he tried to introduce a special charge for members who missed the meeting , but who came to the pub afterwards : ‘ Imagine it : jackboots in the YCs ! ’
20 Scott Reading was the focal point of a close finish as he tried to protect a five shot lead over the closing three ends after fantastic work by Paul Maynard 's rink .
21 He tried to start a new conversation .
22 PC Peter Betts was on a training run when he crashed into a hedge as he tried to avoid a head-on collision with a lorry .
23 His propaganda was often at its most effective in personal abuse , and at its weakest when he tried to expound a political theory .
24 He also studied under the successful architect Isaac Ware [ q.v. ] whom he helped prepare a new edition of Lord Burlington 's Fabbriche Antiche , a book of engravings from the collection of Palladio drawings belonging to Lord Burlington ( Richard Boyle , third Earl of Burlington , q.v . ) .
25 Roger was prepared to co-operate with the subsequent regime of Simon of Montfort — in December 1264 he helped to arrange a temporary settlement with the Marcher barons — but he was not one of the bishops suspended from office after the battle of Evesham .
26 At Ashness Bridge , one of the most frequented sites in the Lakes , he helped to launch a major programme to combat the erosion caused by the pounding of millions of visitors ' feet over the years .
27 He told his company that he proposed to join a rival newspaper , giving two months ' notice , rather than the 12 months ' notice required by his contract .
28 However , I argued that we should not suppose that the essentially competitive process he proposed implies a competitive outcome .
29 He proposed to develop a sophisticated fishing industry .
30 He bent to throw a few pieces of turf on the fire and was reminded that the locals called them sods of turf .
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