Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , too , Colin Watson was particularly adept in the creation of the detective he chose to investigate , or struggle with , the curious crimes he made to happen in everyday Flaxborough . |
| 2 | And what did he want coming to this back of beyond ? ’ |
| 3 | And Reynolds said he planned to return to indoor competition in the next couple of months and hoped to compete in both the world indoor and outdoor championships . |
| 4 | He agreed to talk to I Lawrie regarding existing plans . |
| 5 | The story concerns the misdemeanours of a husband when he goes dancing with another woman when he is supposed to be at a boxing match . |
| 6 | It was normal , moreover , as in earlier generations , for a diplomat going to one of the more out-of-the-way capitals , if he expected to stay for any length of time , to equip himself with a mass of essentials which might be difficult or impossible to obtain at his destination . |
| 7 | Afterwards , oesophagoscopy was repeated twice as he failed to respond to conservative management . |
| 8 | Erm but he got he got sidetracked by this guy , and they were talking and he he mentioned a photograph , and he got in like you know . |
| 9 | Kevin said : ‘ The front wheels ran over him and he got caught by one leg . |
| 10 | He admitted driving with excess alcohol but said he should n't be banned . |
| 11 | Adish Sadik , 28 , of Chadburn Road , Norton , Stockton , was fined a total of £250 with £40 costs by Thirsk magistrates yesterday after he admitted driving without due care and attention and speeding last June . |
| 12 | He sought to show by ingenious argument that it must be false because he could find thought experiments which circumvented it . |
| 13 | as he tried to explain in rhyming verse |
| 14 | While an angry woman in a cardigan sadly toasted herself a crumpet by the jet of a gas f ; re , he tried to shift to another topic . |
| 15 | He tried to brake with this ice-axe but started turning great cartwheels , bouncing all the way down . |
| 16 | It seems that he speaks no English although he has lived in this country for some time ; he is in fact Italian by birth . |
| 17 | For me , it was as much a personal triumph for the coach , Ian McGeechan , as anybody else , because of what he has achieved with this side in such a short space of time . |
| 18 | He too , dies the early death of romance — en poète , as the poet Burns put it with reference to his own fate — and his end is enveloped in the consequences of his supposing that he has lit upon some Chatterton manuscripts . |
| 19 | Now that he has retired from full time teaching , Guisborough-based John Brelstaff is able to devote more of his time to painting and has been able to resume the work left off when he left the Slade in the mid-Fifties . |
| 20 | He has flirted with that theme . |
| 21 | An example of a limitation clause is where a supplier of computer software limits his liability for faulty software to the licence fee he has received for that software . |
| 22 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent representations he has received on low flying ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 23 | He has written novels and travel books set in Latin America , Africa , the Caribbean , India and Europe ; what he has to say about any country is worth reading . |
| 24 | So although he has gone to some trouble to leave tracks across his own land at Highgrove specially for the local hunt , the Beaufort , he hardly ever joins them . |
| 25 | He has played on Panamanian nationalism to exploit resentment at US interference in Panamanian affairs and met charge with counter-charge . |
| 26 | Dalian , who has scored in 12 of the 22 Villa games he has played in this season , explained : ‘ When I came back from Spain a big adjustment had to be made . |
| 27 | Dalian , who has scored in 12 of the 22 Villa games he has played in this season , explained : ‘ When I came back from Spain a big adjustment had to be made . |
| 28 | It is true , as Mr Chedlow has stressed , that he has not got as many years before him through which he has to live with this discomfort , pain and impairment of movement . |
| 29 | As the educated urban elite abandon Mr Collor , following a series of media exposes of his political record , he has relied on continued support from rural voters at rallies of up to 70,000 . |
| 30 | Instead , he has relied on great fitness and stamina to enable him to keep sprinting in at full pace , and speed of arm and perfect balance to capitalize on the momentum ; combined with an unrelenting desire to keep on taking more and more wickets , it has all proved irresistible . |