Example sentences of "[vb pp] [subord] he [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She says he must be caught before he hurts another child . |
| 2 | His jaw cracked as he gave another cavernous yawn . |
| 3 | He was little more than five feet tall , slender all his life , and exuding a febrile energy that served in place of strength until it was periodically depleted and he fell into a relapse , paralleled as he grew older by deep depression of spirits . |
| 4 | Fourth-year engineering student Steve , 21 , is alleged to have been booted as he lay helpless on the ground . |
| 5 | He had come as he did each day with bread from the baker 's iron oven that stood open to the lane in the souk . |
| 6 | Already the features were changing as moisture was drawn out of the flesh , but remembering how Iritnefert had looked when he had first seen her , he could understand how the two girls could be confused . |
| 7 | Dave Morpfee again impressed as he bagged 3–33 to set up Bangor for a response of 111–5 , Hefin Lewis , Andy Savage and John Parry all scoring 23 as Ruthin 's John James pocketed 4–29 . |
| 8 | that we have n't ever seen cos he looks stuck in Hungary , she said and I 'll never forget she said we put a name tag on him I 've been to Hungary . |
| 9 | ‘ Strangeways , here we come ! ’ quipped Morrissey every day to his workmates — probably — quoting , of course , the famous line uttered by Barry Grant in Brookside five years later , which Morrissey could have seen if he videoed that episode while The Smiths were on tour . |
| 10 | Ray Houghton , Liverpool 's star last season , was unloaded because he wanted more money or a move . |
| 11 | He is horrified by the contemptuous way in which fat Establishment cats speak of workers and it is particularly unfortunate that his enthusiastic support for co-operatives should have foundered because he backed dodgy horses . |
| 12 | There was one man near Tynemouth who was known as ‘ Dead Bodies ’ , so named because he earned seven and sixpence for collecting ( by hook ) the corpses of suicides who 'd jumped from the Tyne Bridge , ten miles up-river . |
| 13 | But the cynical should be advised ; this is the best thing Weller has done since he binned those awful black-and-white golf shoes and invented frothy coffee . |
| 14 | All he cared about was booze , but he still got the job done before he got soaked . |
| 15 | And the eighth seed 's hopes of an easy Centre Court opening were dashed when he landed awkward German Bernd Karbacher , ranked 36 in the world , in today 's draw . |
| 16 | But his horizons were dramatically broadened when he joined British Steel and was asked by the late Lord Melchett , who was then chairman , to reorganise the fourteen widely dispersed companies that had been put into the same melting pot under the nationalisation programme . |
| 17 | But his confidence had grown as he watched some of his comrades fail the requirements and return to their units . |
| 18 | He remembered the release he had felt when he had first heard the teachings of Akhenaten , which had cut away the rotten trappings of the old beliefs , festooned as they were with the cynical speculation of the priests . |
| 19 | He felt the same surge of excitement , the same strong sexual awareness , he had felt when he had first held this sepia photograph in the early days of the summer . |
| 20 | Patrick , a former soldier , was alone on an around the world adventure when he was shot as he resisted two men who tried to take his cash and camera . |
| 21 | Haynes fell with the score on 57 , Gomes was missed immediately and Greenidge was missed when he had 110 ; apart from that it was batsmanship of the highest quality . |
| 22 | But then , as Christian acidly remarked , his friend Edouard was a man of many parts — not just one , which he had suspected when he had first met Edouard in London . |
| 23 | With one of the slenderest majorities to defend anywhere in the country , Mr Forsyth could be forgiven if he looked worried . |
| 24 | A CLEVELAND pensioner may have died because he wore dark clothing , an inquest heard . |
| 25 | Is a judge ever conscious that his reputation as a judge is likely to be adversely affected in their eyes if he decides one way , and favourably affected if he decides another way ? |
| 26 | However , once this is conceded the basis of Oakeshott 's theory is challenged since he views these two forms of association as categorially distinct moral conditions and as shaping two wholly different manners of government and two profoundly different characters of human identity . |
| 27 | His lids narrowed as he became thoughtful . |
| 28 | He was repeatedly punched and kicked as he lay helpless on the ground , and suffering a fractured cheekbone , a broken arm and damage to his left eye . |
| 29 | The driver slowed as he drew level with me and shouted , ‘ Get into the ditch ! ’ |
| 30 | There is Sydney Carton with one foot on the steps of the guillotine ; Oliver Twist with his empty plate held out ; Micawber with his back to the fire ( and to the wall ) enunciating his economic philosophy ; Uriah Heep , hunched as he rubs one humble hand over the back of the other . |