Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [prep] [v-ing] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He concerned himself with alleviating the slave-like conditions of negroes in the West Indies , and when war broke out in the United States in 1861 he worked at getting financial and material support for emancipated negroes . |
| 2 | Where or with whom James received his training is not known , but by 1783 he was established in London ; and in that year he announced himself by publishing a pamphlet on A Method of Constructing Vapour Baths , and began to exhibit at the Royal Academy . |
| 3 | The young man 's brother wrote to Lord Panmure to see if David could make the best of the situation in which he found himself by obtaining a midshipman 's place . |
| 4 | He goaded himself by picturing the ageing President , grey-haired and frail . |
| 5 | Anyway , Jacob said that he could do the job better and more quickly if he paced himself by singing a lively hymn called ‘ Keep in Step with the Master ’ . |
| 6 | His friend Dr Burney , not a Cambridge man , expressed similar concern at Smart 's lack of discretion : ‘ While he was the pride of Cambridge and the chief poetical ornament of that University , he ruined himself by returning the tavern treats of strangers who had invited him as a wit and an extraordinary personage , in order to boast of his acquaintance ’ . |
| 7 | He committed himself to helping the future of rugby when he was elected president of a relaunched Young England Club . |
| 8 | It was a bitter irony that he condemned her for loving a man who was out of reach . |
| 9 | My Japanese friends wonder at my passion , because he is not very well known and not very successful , though when he visited Paris with his fellow sumotori he was at once called ‘ the Japanese Alain Delon ’ — to my mind , an insult to my hero , but for a while that kind of adulation seemed to give him a little of the confidence he needed , and on his return to Japan he delighted me by winning an unusually high number of contests . |
| 10 | ‘ You 'd think people would have heed , but no heed , never any heed , no care for anybody else , ’ he complained as he drove ; but before the bridge he startled them by driving the car into the space in front of McCabe 's and announcing that they would walk the rest of the way through the village . |
| 11 | He hated himself for pressing a dying friend , but some gut-fear , some primordial terror drove him on . |
| 12 | Much as he wanted to pound Ralf into the mud , he contented himself with sending the fellow a narrow-eyed glare which brought a look of respectful caution to the pedlar 's usually cheerful countenance . |
| 13 | Ken lost interest completely , For the moment he contented himself with pinning the notice to the inner door of the club and taking great delight in reading it to two young black guys who had arrived carrying saxophone cases . |
| 14 | Richmann 's scowl deepened , but he restrained himself from snapping an answer back at the General . |
| 15 | He surprised everybody by choosing a 7 foot gauge to increase capacity and improve the ride . |
| 16 | He needed no Bible to remind him of the life of Christ , and if ever he felt the need for a symbol upon which to concentrate his devotions , he satisfied himself by making the sign of the cross with his fingers . |
| 17 | And he hailed it for providing an ideal environment in which individualism can flourish . |
| 18 | When I jumped at the chance , he assigned me to producing the Mart Kenney Orchestra show from the Hotel Vancouver roof garden . |
| 19 | He did it by suggesting the nervous system as an intermediary . |
| 20 | He did it by counterposing the need for regard to the greater entity of the Conservative Party . |
| 21 | He accused her of planting the cannabis . |
| 22 | And if he differed from his contemporaries in ethical matters , it was only because he accused them of taking the Old Testament commands too lightly and superficially . |
| 23 | He supported himself by painting the portraits of the distinguished people he met on the way , and in Japan he went off alone to live among the aboriginal Ainu . |
| 24 | Nigel told Eleanor that he despised her for making a pass at him . |
| 25 | It will be shown in a later chapter that there seems to be no evidence to indicate that he held that post before holding the kazaskerlik , while there is positive evidence that he held it after holding the kazaskerlik . |
| 26 | Small , jerkily spasmodic movements stirred her whole body as she strained towards him , and he steadied her by sliding an arm about her waist , still intent on the proud thrust of the breast he was ravishing with such devastatingly effective skill . |
| 27 | When Young subsequently became the Chairman of Alexander Hughes , then in its original guise as an insurance company advising pension fund managers , he pushed them into entering the headhunting business . |
| 28 | Her father glared at her as if he suspected her of having the whole thing arranged behind his back . |