Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not only was he enjoying trying to blame the fire on Lisa , when surely he must know she had enough problems already , but that reference to ‘ poor , downtrodden Nigel ’ was almost shocking in its coldness . |
| 2 | I watched Hanley on TV against St Helens and Halifax and he looks to have lost the pace and mobility to close down players going away from him . |
| 3 | But now he looks to have got the bit between his teeth and is buckling down to some series driving — and finally showing what enormous talent he has . |
| 4 | He tried to go to see the family , but the palace was surrounded by Bolshevik guards and Russian soldiers . |
| 5 | Ross ( 36 ) from Wandsworth , south London , who told police he tried to brake to avoid the accident , pleaded not guilty by post and did not attend . |
| 6 | There was a resolution he tried to get passed every year , condemning the invasion and calling for a withdrawal . |
| 7 | But the model he develops tends to distort the past in order to exaggerate the extent of change . |
| 8 | City : Attalli 's new order of things — one year on Frank Kane finds a Frenchman in the Anglo-Saxon world of banking pleased with progress at the institution he helped to found to rebuild the East |
| 9 | As he moved to start dousing the flames , Ashley fled into the small whitewashed bedroom on the other side of the hall . |
| 10 | I assume , therefore , that what he has said represents the majority view within his party . |
| 11 | While research looks like taking more of a backseat in the new government , the extent to which Fabius will change research policy will become apparent only when he has begun to change the people in key staff positions . |
| 12 | His chance to do this has come with the microwave report , but he has decided to put the interests of microwave manufacturers first . |
| 13 | But in order to try to keep some of America 's weaker carriers in the air he has decided to increase the limit on the stake a foreign investor can hold in an American airline from 25% to 49% . |
| 14 | Pa sits me on the wooden bench he has built facing the altar , and himself sits down next to me . |
| 15 | Interviews are a chore he has to do to sell the show . |
| 16 | John Chant asked how the above was progressing and I explained that we have had initial draft typeset — he has asked to see a copy which I have passed to him today . |
| 17 | Like the Beatles , Keegan was a legend in Liverpool and he has given United a dream ticket to ride all the way back to the Premier League . |
| 18 | Johnny Rogan himself is at a loss to explain what he has done to provoke the wrath of the former Smith , while Morrissey says that the book contains certain inaccuracies about his Mancunian past . |
| 19 | Yet Mr Kohl seems more interested in getting votes from right-wingers than in winning them for Turks : the most he has done to change the citizenship law is to wonder aloud whether Germany 's Turks might be granted dual citizenship for a trial five years , at the end of which they could choose to be either Turks or Germans . |
| 20 | Richard Amos is still the youth worker and deserves special mention for all he has done to get the youth club back on its feet . |
| 21 | Richard Amos is still the youth worker and deserves special mention for all he has done to get the youth club back on its feet . |
| 22 | In particular , he has sought to make the desert bloom , damming its rivers and plundering its scant resources of water to create neat , green fields and , more recently , the harmonious , man-made landscapes of the golf course . |
| 23 | He has offered to take a blood test to disprove it . |
| 24 | It is only a couple of years ago that Jenkins rejected out of hand the Wales involvement he has now taken on , and — until Davies and the Wales manager , Robert Norster , beat their path to his door — he has tended to use the expression ‘ poisoned chalice ’ whenever anyone sounded out his interest or rather the lack of it . |
| 25 | Having now worked in both sides of the oil business , Morgan says that he has come to appreciate the importance of high quality cooperation , whether it 's at Grangemouth Refinery or in transporting and marketing oil in the US . |
| 26 | In his 12 years in power , he has resisted naming a deputy who would step in were he to die in office . |
| 27 | But Mr de Soto goes down well in Washington , where he has helped persuade the authorities to take the previously unknown Mr Fujimori seriously . |
| 28 | Most controversially , he has suggested sending a US peace envoy to Northern Ireland , a move which raises the hackles of many MPs . |
| 29 | He has got to do the rescuing . |
| 30 | The affidavit must verify that the defendant falls within the categories in Ord 29 , r11(2) and the amount of the damages to which the application relates and contain enough information to enable the master or district judge to reach a preliminary valuation of the claim ( because he has got to order a part of it to be paid to the plaintiff ) . |