Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have him bang to rights on the kiosk heist and Special Forces caught him redhanded holding up the auction room and trying to make off with a green canvas portmanteau . ’ |
| 2 | In hindsight , it might have been better for him to have taken up the offer . |
| 3 | Everything around him had taken on a rosy hue and he felt excitement in his guts . |
| 4 | She did love him , she had always loved him , but now that they were both adults the love she felt for him had taken on a far greater significance . |
| 5 | So this statement could be him trying to play down the incident … remember there were a few incidents where cuntona was reported to have stormed off to france . |
| 6 | How many millions similar to him have given up the ghost of ambition or had it driven out of them ? |
| 7 | Many may have felt betrayed , but there is little to suggest that MacDonald was any the less of a socialist than others , nor is there hard evidence to suggest that he schemed to bring about the collapse of the Labour government . |
| 8 | On Nov. 23 former Vice-President Oginga Odinga announced that he planned to set up a political party , saying that an open political process was necessary to wipe out " political hooliganism and thuggery " . |
| 9 | Gould would also be reunited with Natty and Jemmy , who he planned to take on the Namoi expedition . |
| 10 | I can even remember when Finnegans Wake was thought to be incomprehensible and the gentleman sitting on my right , George Craig , is almost , but not quite , my contemporary at this university and I was genuinely delighted when he agreed to take on the herculean task of giving a lecture a centenary lecture on James Joyce . |
| 11 | Prosecution witness Isham Chandra Dutta said he agreed to set up a dummy gems company in Bombay , for a £20,000 fee , which included a mail message centre with false letterheads and invoices . |
| 12 | In sampling and inspecting water quality he is his own agent to decide where and when he goes to pick up a sample . |
| 13 | Mr Thomas Russell was asked to board up the back part of he building to keep out the rain . |
| 14 | ‘ Ca n't be done , ’ she said , feeling shamed by the look of despair on his face , and worse still as he fought to bring back the blankness to cover it . |
| 15 | True to his belief in the efficacy of competition , he avoided building up an extensive chain of outlets , and preferred to thrive by vigorous marketing . |
| 16 | At the time he expected to touch down the aircraft suddenly ‘ pulled down to his left ’ , he felt the back of the aircraft buckle and was aware of debris coming through the canopy . |
| 17 | Bigwig he asked to bring up the rear . |
| 18 | He was probably one of the first to discover the principle of electrotyping by depositing copper electrolytically on to an engraved copper plate , but , as with many of his other inventions and discoveries , he failed to take out a patent and most of the benefits were reaped by others . |
| 19 | His predecessor made two cardinal mistakes , replied Mr Kravchuk : he formed a political alliance with Russia , and he failed to build up an independent army . |
| 20 | Driving with considerable power , he failed to get over a ball of fullish length , giving Wessels a stinging catch at mid-on . |
| 21 | Oh we used to have phosphate and sulphur , potash , coal , granite you name it anything , general cargo we 've had , loaded everything , even dead bodies , we sent , there was one young , one young person , he got drowned up the coast there and they and he had to go back to Holland and they brought that from out the warehouse and put it on the stern of our ship , his coffin , they sent that back and they erm export er pigs to Poland , all live pigs , pedigree pigs . |
| 22 | He got sold down the line . |
| 23 | He looks to score off every ball and he 's the best runner between the wickets I 've ever seen . ’ |
| 24 | Norman Dale , 50 , was struck down as he tried to pick up a cup of tea . |
| 25 | In her motherly concerned way , she was cosseting him as he tried to pick up the pieces of his life . |
| 26 | When his father , frustrated after years as a POW , returned , he tried to lay down the law . |
| 27 | He tried to set up the League of Princes , an international peace-keeping force aimed primarily against the Turks , and the exhibition shows the route of the journeys he made to other countries to promote the idea . |
| 28 | He tried to open out the conversation . |
| 29 | The agent hesitated as he tried to read out the name of the Russian ship from the bill of laden in his hand . |
| 30 | With everyone else gone Tonks had to fend for himself so he tried to find out the truth . |