Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A claim against an expert may be that : ( 1 ) he has failed to carry out the reference properly ; or ( 2 ) he has failed to deliver a timely decision ; or ( 3 ) he has not followed the parties ' instructions : or ( 4 ) he has not kept to the standard of skill and care of his profession . |
| 2 | Alongside his economic reforms , he has tried to open up the political system and make it harder for politicians to cheat . |
| 3 | Mr Gillespie wrote back accepting the contents of the letter but since his 65th birthday he has refused to hand over the shares . |
| 4 | When he 'd managed to count down the numbers and identify the exact address that she 'd named , he felt something go cold inside him . |
| 5 | She reached the end of the corridor , but he seemed to have given up the chase already . |
| 6 | Dodman offered to give evidence against another man whom he claimed had carried out the burglaries , but he was unable to do so because of a mental condition and the charges against the other man were dropped . |
| 7 | Dodman had offered to give evidence against another man whom he claimed had carried out the burglaries , but he was unable to do so because of a mental condition and the charges against the other man were dropped . |
| 8 | As against this , Pye seems to have worked hard , or got others to do so , in preparing the revenue and expenditure balances and averages of 1635 ( covering the years from 1631 ) and of 1636–9 ; and he appears to have set about the same process for the reconstructed administration of 1641 . |
| 9 | And if he did attempt to round up the collection , he only had to miss one to arouse suspicion . |
| 10 | He had planned to hold up the cash desk of an Oxford Street store . |
| 11 | MacArthur maintained that the moves he had taken to break up the large banks would prevent a repetition of the devious methods formerly used to provide a subsidy for Japanese textile exports . |
| 12 | Six inches of concrete , luckily not too dense , had been used to top off whatever he had used to fill in the excavation . |
| 13 | He had offered to top up the money he had given her before by another twenty pounds and she had accepted with polite reluctance . |
| 14 | Mick Houghton , who also works for the fashionable label Blast First , was asked why he had agreed to take on The Wedding Present . |
| 15 | He had failed to win back the support of the MRP . |
| 16 | He had a number of scenes reshot because he did n't like the way he looked in the original scenes , and by the time he had finished hacking up the picture , it was a complete mess . |
| 17 | It was not only because of its convenient position and its many sheltering solitudes that he had chosen to watch out the night here . |