Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he moved he had the supple , easy grace of a big cat . |
| 2 | built it and he built he had the Kirkwall Hotel , the Stenness Hotel and the Stromness Hotel and an hotel in in Shetland . |
| 3 | When the lifeboat approached he refused the rescue crew 's assistance so helmsman Mike Picknett called the police . |
| 4 | As he swam he dreamed the Whale calm , asking the great creature politely for its cooperation in garnering that which his village needed . |
| 5 | And , er , and my father actually looked up the year before and found he knew the S H M , an old school chum , and he sent us a ticket . |
| 6 | His robot companions were now to operate well away from him across a fairly large room and at key moments in the drama when there was an anticipatory silence from everyone else , he found he had the personal ‘ power ’ , and with some verbal style ( and a high degree of repressed excitement as he discovered he could be publicly effective ) he presented himself as an efficient robot controller . |
| 7 | Never leaving us to feel that he has short-changed us , each observation complete in itself , as if it has been roundly considered before utterance , he manages to accommodate the following items of interest in that eighteen hundred words : a comparison between Hebridean manners of burial and Roman funeral rites ; the weather ( repeatedly ) ; the literacy of the Hebrideans ; how travellers are accommodated , there being no hotel system ; diet — wild-fowl , fish , venison , beef , mutton , goat , poultry , bread ; whisky for breakfast ( the morning dram , known as a ‘ skalk ’ ) ; the availability of tea , coffee , marmalade and other preserves , honey and cheese ; trading practices — wine from the French in exchange for wool ; culinary variety , short on vegetables other than potatoes , not good on custards ; napery , crockery and cutlery ; the abating fervour of the clans in the wake of Culloden ; and he believed he saw the slow rise of prosperity under the ‘ unpleasing consequences of subjection , . |
| 8 | By the use of these three methods Morgan believed he had the means with which to discover the history of marriage in human societies . |
| 9 | He shuffled around the lower reaches of the ATP Tour 's top 100 , consistently breaking the hearts of those who believed he had the potential to hit the big-time . |
| 10 | As a result of the meeting Devi Lal apparently believed he had the Prime Minister 's approval to reinstate his son , although Singh subsequently denied that he had given his approval to such a move . |
| 11 | Mr Maginess added he believed the only answer was to tighten security measures and provide a stable political situation where problems could be solved . |
| 12 | Even granted he had the power to sack her , that would not be the end of the world . |
| 13 | He dreamt that he was in the coils of a giant worm , and when he woke he found the bedclothes wrapped tightly around him . |
| 14 | Together with Kim Dae Jung he became the country 's most prominent dissident but , unlike the elder Kim , he was never closely associated with the country 's radical left-wing groups . |
| 15 | The tears gathered more thickly in his eyes and in the partial darkness he imagined he saw the form of a young man standing under a dripping tree . |
| 16 | As she turned he set the horse against her quickly , its strong shoulder nudging her away in another direction . |
| 17 | Mr Bourne had a history of anxiety and agitation and a psychiatric report stated he found the world too difficult to cope with . |
| 18 | Blood tests confirmed he had the disease in December 1987 but he kept the tragic secret from his family for more than three years . |
| 19 | Three independent sources confirmed he gave the positive test , it added . |
| 20 | But today in a faxed letter , he confirmed he bought the property because it had a clause allowing eviction and added : |
| 21 | The only policeman on patrol with the soldiers claimed he witnessed the attack and that the stolen car had not hit any member of the patrol and that the shooting had been totally unjustified . |
| 22 | A man named William Talbot also claimed he sold the second gun to Henry . |
| 23 | Lamb claimed he spotted the Pakistani bowlers behaving illegally and brought it to the attention of umpires John Hampshire and Ken Palmer . |
| 24 | Ex-UDR soldier David Pollock , 30 , shot dead in September 1990 while driving through Strabane to visit his girlfriend , was one of two victims Casey claimed he warned the RUC about in advance . |
| 25 | A JOINER who claimed he contracted the lung disease asbestosis while making doors for the Clyde-built liner QE II has been awarded £43,000 by a judge . |
| 26 | And just a week before the Council opened he warned the papal curia that it must not be an obstacle in the way of reform . |
| 27 | Reveals a source : ‘ Chris reckoned he deserved the best as he was spending so much time and money in the place . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I thought it was food poisoning because I had prepared fish which I had not cooked properly and when the doctor arrived he thought the same way . |
| 29 | When Belegar arrived he watched the Dwarfs rebuild their citadel but did not attack at first . |
| 30 | The next time Paul arrived he steered the Sinclair electric C5 , ‘ up to the barrier bar and slid under . |