Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv prt] [verb] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ In the House of Lords he went on to make an outstanding contribution on Labour 's front-bench . |
| 2 | Again , as I recorded in a fieldnote , this assistant chief exhibited aspects of what I could only then describe as ‘ institutional paranoia ’ , when he went on to deride an unnamed social scientist who had been allowed research facilities inside a police force ( unspecified ) . |
| 3 | Believing , at that time , that the source of psychologism was the idea that no objective treatment of the logic of ampliative inference was possible — together with the desire for a logic which treats all forms of inference in a systematic fashion — he set out to provide an appropriate definition of truth , and of validity , and thus to offer a systematic objective foundation for logic . |
| 4 | Because of this discomfort he set about developing an air-cushioned sole with his engineer friend Herbert Funck . |
| 5 | He stood up holding an automatic pistol and started trying to slot a magazine into the grip . |