Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [adj] the " in BNC.

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1 How could Binyon have failed to remember this , when Pound complimented him by saying , ‘ He has carefully preserved all the faults of his original ’ ?
2 Johnny plans to work the climb this summer ; he has already managed all the moves but still has to piece together the sequences .
3 His taste for walking remains unabated and he has actually visited all the sites to which he so clearly refers .
4 He was changed since his days at Lancaster 's court ; with all his polish and scholarship , which neither time nor place could tarnish , he had nevertheless shed all the cramping tensions of city life , and moved like a young stag , long-stepping in motion and magnificently abandoned in repose .
5 He had already drunk all the ginger ale and soda from the room refrigerator , and was now sipping the tonic water which tasted hideously medicinal .
6 Having failed to complete the flute music for De Jean , he had only received half the commission fee , a fact he tried to disguise by claiming that life in Mannheim was very expensive .
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