Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [vb pp] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I watched Hanley on TV against St Helens and Halifax and he looks to have lost the pace and mobility to close down players going away from him . |
| 2 | But now he looks to have got the bit between his teeth and is buckling down to some series driving — and finally showing what enormous talent he has . |
| 3 | He reported having enjoyed the weekly game of football with other members of the youth unemployment centre . |
| 4 | Dressed casually , he seemed to have assumed the personality of someone altogether warmer and more approachable , even human . |
| 5 | But by move 50 he seemed to have lost the thread of the game completely and his position was considerably worse . |
| 6 | He seemed to have forgotten the traumatic revelations of the previous evening , smiling and giving her a peck on the cheek as he left . |
| 7 | They found her drawings and watercolours too like his own and he disguised his embarrassment by joking to her that he seemed to have cornered the nut-tree market . |
| 8 | This mild rebuke of the attitude of some missionaries to Indian thought and tradition corresponds to his criticism of orthodox Christianity , which he believed had distorted the message of Jesus . |
| 9 | He claimed to have taken the informations of over a hundred witnesses , English and Irish . |
| 10 | Though he claimed to have restored the Republic after thirteen years of civil war that lasted from the murder of Julius Caesar in 44 BC to the Battle of Actium in 31 , he was in fact sole ruler and emperor of Rome and its conquered territories . |
| 11 | James Coats , junior ( 1841–1912 ) , was a member of the Paisley family of industrialists J. & P. Coats , whom most of us know best as the makers of sewing cotton but he appears to have made the presentation of these libraries Personally and not through a trust established in connection with the firm . |
| 12 | His uncertainty is comprehensible , but he appears to have jumped the wrong way . |
| 13 | He appears to have worried the Byzantines , who thought that he was planning an attack on Constantinople . |
| 14 | Apportionment of cargo damage was referred to an average adjuster in Tharsis Sulphur & Copper Co Ltd v Loftus ( 1872 ) LR 8 CP 1 , in circumstances where he appears to have determined the issue as an expert reference . |
| 15 | Nothing was said on this occasion about his interest in Masai land , though he appears to have discussed the subject privately with F.C . |
| 16 | At the end of his life he appears to have held the prestigious title of magister militum , an office he had probably held after Ricimer 's death in 472 . |
| 17 | Now he appears to have got the message . |
| 18 | In the other quotation ( 2.21.6 ) he appears to have taken the Gorgon Medusa killed by Perseus as a member of a wild Libyan race : " he ( Procles ) had seen a man from this race brought to Rome " . |
| 19 | The prince was intent on establishing himself as king , and he appears to have chosen the period following Sigibert 's death deliberately to make his bid for recognition . |
| 20 | Clearly Cherrington was not above such tactics either , for he seems to have destroyed the ditch . |
| 21 | Subsequently he seems to have served the martyrial church of St Julian at Brioude , in the Auvergne . |
| 22 | He seems to have adopted the saffron robe of a Buddhist monk . |
| 23 | In the tradition of Wilfrid , he seems to have taught the men of Lewes and Bramber how to fish ( they must have been very forgetful ) , or at least blessed their nets . |
| 24 | Little is known of his activities there , but he seems to have resumed the preaching of similar views and to have been forced to leave the town . |
| 25 | He seems to have made the mistake of believing his own propaganda . |
| 26 | Although comedy came to him easily in the sense that he seems to have made the class laugh at will from a tender age , it is , like everything else , something that he works at and it annoys him when others fail to do so . |
| 27 | But he had ethnographic remarks to make about both Spain ( Strabo 3.4.17 ) and Gaul ( 4.4.6 ) , and he seems to have prepared the way for the far more comprehensive enquiry of Posidonius . |
| 28 | Generally he seems to have synthesized the Inca to the oriental data , and he used information from Prescott to explain the working of the ‘ Asiatic ’ mode of production . |
| 29 | Already one of the trumpeters-in-ordinary from 30 March 1688 , he seems to have joined the court band as a musician-in-ordinary in 1695 ; he became serjeant-trumpeter in 1707 on the death of William Shore , his uncle or , less probably , brother , and he lived to serve George II . |
| 30 | Somewhat surprisingly he seems to have ignored the work of Gainsborough , Reynolds , Turner and Constable , none of whom entered the collection during his lifetime . |