Example sentences of "[pron] he [verb] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | to kind of just get together with someone he 's identified a person whose name I ca n't remember but he 's got a chamber orchestra |
| 2 | Rogers was thinking about a cricket match in which he had made a good score , reliving the running between the wickets as he bucketed about between the shell-bursts . |
| 3 | Playing for the New Zealand Barbarians in a 23–13 win over a strong Public School Wanderers side , Botha ended a superb personal display in soaking conditions with his shorts as pristine white as when he had started the game , during which he had given a cultured demonstration of the arts of reading the game and tactical kicking . |
| 4 | For in 1920 , when Binyon began work towards his version of the Inferno , he exchanged letters with Hewlett , who had translated the first canto years before , and now urged Binyon to shorten his measure to tetrameters , pointing out that this was what he himself had done in his ‘ Song of the Plough ’ , a long poem in terza rima in which he had invested a great deal . |
| 5 | Last year he was invited to hold an exhibition of his work at Urbino , in central Italy , at the house once owned by the Renaissance painter Raphael , which he had visited a few years before . |
| 6 | He said Thompson had been involved in a traffic accident in which he had suffered a head injury and been concussed for a short time . |
| 7 | That is a gift with regard to which he had reserved a benefit and that gift ( the full value of the house ) will come into charge to inheritance tax on his death . |
| 8 | On the English side the king 's eldest son , the Black Prince , had grown to manhood anxious to win his share of the glory and profits of war , of which he had had a taste at Crécy . |
| 9 | The defendants called rail workers out on strike and the plaintiff , an ordinary traveller , incurred hotel expenses when he was unable to travel on the journey for which he had bought a ticket . |
| 10 | He then opened discussions with Universal , a company in which he had taken a 25 per cent stake back in 1935 , whereby Rank 's smaller films would be packaged with the pictures of an independent US production company , and sold in a block to exhibitors . |
| 11 | An Australian Broadcasting Tribunal investigation into Mr Bond 's eligibility to own television stations declared him ‘ not fit and proper ’ and growing stock market unease was accentuated by the disclosure that Mr Bond was trying to sell Van Gogh 's Irises , for which he had paid a record $54million but which had been partially funded by the auctioneer . |
| 12 | On April 21 Mobutu accepted the leadership of the ruling Popular Movement of the Revolution ( MPR ) from which he had resigned a year before [ see p. 37336 ] . |
| 13 | It could even be suggested to him that he leave Vietnam and ‘ take up once more the philosophical studies to which he had devoted a great deal of his previous life ’ , and it might also be suggested that ‘ there would be pension adequate to support him in those studies ’ . |
| 14 | Johnny was an old-fashioned inside-forward ( the position in which he had won a League championship medal with Chelsea in 1955 ) , but he gradually moved , via wing-half , to full-back and it was from there that he skippered Palace 's first promotion side for 40 years , taking us out of Division 4 in 1960–61 . |
| 15 | He also wanted to emphasize in the appraisal two issues he had already brought to the attention of staff : assessment of pupils — with which there had already been some changes — and language across the curriculum , which he felt required a more positive policy . |
| 16 | The American president was then left with a situation in which he 'd created a club which he hims he himself could n't join . |
| 17 | This illustrates another rare story : the seer Polyeidos shut in the tomb with Minos 's dead child Glaukos , and reviving him by means of a leaf with which he has seen a snake revive its mate which he had killed . |
| 18 | To ask the Secretary of State for Scotland if he will list the hospitals in respect of which he has received an expression of interest in opting out or establishing a national health service trust . |
| 19 | It must be incarnated in the world Christ came to redeem , in which he is already present , and for which he has prepared a transformed future . |
| 20 | A groundswell of media opinion is pushing for Gavin Hastings as captain and his off-the-field credentials — particularly the manner in which he has created a happy spirit in the Scottish camp — give him a head start over England 's Will Carling . |
| 21 | For the first time in 14 years , the country 's top sprinter , currently sunning himself in Australia , has decided to skip the event at which he has won a record nine men 's titles . |
| 22 | And with these words he points towards an icon of the Saviour before which he has lighted a lamp — ‘ to be on the safe side , ’ Peter suggests . |
| 23 | Did Harry tell you he 'd bought a stallion and four mares of his own ? |
| 24 | mind you he 's got a good filter system , he 's got a U V light in it , |
| 25 | I tell you he 's got a lot of blooming skeletons in his cupboard ai n't he ? |
| 26 | Mind you he has become a bit of an opinionated arsehole recently … more like Jonathan King , or Nina Myskow — y'know being deliberately contentious to get people to write in . |
| 27 | ‘ It was probably something he 'd heard an old actor say , ’ he said . |
| 28 | For one he has created an office , for another a library and for a third a single piece of furniture . |
| 29 | As she had walked towards him he had felt a physical pain in his guts . |
| 30 | Several women friends of Waddell said that he had given them within days of the murder large sums of money ; and a barman to whom Waddell had given £1000 for safe keeping said Waddell had told him he had won a packet on the horses . |