Example sentences of "[vb past] he [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He mentioned he often gets the coaching bug , I say Leeds should give him the opportunity to get more involved in that side now . |
| 2 | Graham had already budgeted on being in Martigny ten minutes prior to the train 's scheduled arrival so when he reached the station he found he actually had an hour to kill . |
| 3 | None of this abated Joseph McCarthy 's crusading zeal in the Spring of 1950 when he found he suddenly had the ear of the nation . |
| 4 | After the cremation , while the few mourners were looking gloomily at the flowers , his uncle 's solicitor , a partner in the Ipswich practice , spoke to Lewis simply to say that he believed he already knew the contents of the will . |
| 5 | Circumstances had obliged him to sell out to three younger partners , but until they came he never had a telephone or typewriter . |
| 6 | Paul claimed he only joined the Normanby Road Methodist Church for the youth club where he began his entertainment career . |
| 7 | When hostilities began he merely wanted the regime to behave dynamically . |
| 8 | I later recorded he invariably used the idea of an ‘ escape from real work ’ to describe any research secondment ; in doing so he embodied the common institutional fear of uncontrolled social movement across a divide or boundary into another society such as academia . |
| 9 | St Ives swore he distinctly heard the strains of Come Back to Sorrento as he came round the bend of the stairs . |
| 10 | The ‘ Yes ’ majority of just 51.05 per cent meant he barely escaped the biggest humiliation of his political career . |
| 11 | And yet he felt he alone had the whole worry of what action to take , and the responsibility for her life as well as his . |
| 12 | Three , the thief knew he never wears a hat . |
| 13 | Ronnie had been in F1 since 1971 , he was recognized as one of the sport 's quickest ever drivers , he had given Lotus four years of loyal service during relatively lean years and he thought he thoroughly deserved the reward when Lotus came good . |
| 14 | Perhaps he thought he still had the right to wear it . |
| 15 | I did n't re I thought he actually made a person , I did n't realize he made himself into a person . |
| 16 | CHRIS MORRIS admitted he nearly caused a touchline riot at the end of a high-octane thriller . |
| 17 | Or did he just leave a message to let me know he 'd called ? ’ |
| 18 | Or did he just want a special name for her to use ? |
| 19 | Did he just get a kick out of being in control , and saw this as a clever way of controlling her , as well as Sarah Chester Fabrics ? |
| 20 | I know Rosie told me , soon after the wedding , that his bank would n't give him any help , so how did he finally raise the money ? ’ |
| 21 | Erm , as we know , Bullitt was a member of the delegation and an intimate of , of Wilson , so the book is er co- authored , so in a sense we should know as we 're paying for , for all of it , because er , obviously , he relied on Bullitt to give him all this biographical information , and er , consequently what you see Freud doing in this in this book is , is er trawling through , as it were , the things that Bullitt told him , that , that Bullitt had found out , to erm , draw a kind of psy psychoanalytic portrait of Woodrow Wilson , that erm , tried to explain his problem , why did he not deliver the goods as it were . |
| 22 | Why did he not quote the decisive passages which they contained ? |
| 23 | After all , did he not bear the title of the Flower of Chivalry ? |
| 24 | Since the Government 's own inspectors had said that half of secondary school children were being educated in substandard buildings why did he not cancel the CTC programme and use the money to repair Britain 's crumbling schools ? |
| 25 | Did He not turn the righteous wrath of the crowd back upon themselves and ask those among them who were without sin , to cast the first stone ? |
| 26 | A never idle man of great physical strength and extremely irascible — did he not fling a badly-baked plum pudding through a window upon Christmas Day ? — a man more joyous than any intellectual man of our world … |
| 27 | " My father would have been proud of you , " he spat , " did he even realize the half of what you did , eh ? " |
| 28 | I mean there is grotesque — Bruce Rogers was doing grotesque when I was only two feet tall Did he ever use a grotesque any time in his life ? |
| 29 | But Baccy never used a curse word , nor did he ever take the briar pipe out of his mouth despite having abandoned the tobacco habit on joining the church at the age of eighteen . |
| 30 | Did you ever , did he ever clean the loo 's for you ? |