Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb infin] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also studied under the successful architect Isaac Ware [ q.v. ] whom he helped prepare a new edition of Lord Burlington 's Fabbriche Antiche , a book of engravings from the collection of Palladio drawings belonging to Lord Burlington ( Richard Boyle , third Earl of Burlington , q.v . ) . |
| 2 | Three weeks ago , he helped launch the Northern Milk Partnership , a non-profit-making body dedicated to supplying milk to Northern Foods . |
| 3 | Trent waited until the catamaran was pointing downriver , then he let go the stern line , pulling it in and coiling it down . |
| 4 | For his contempt in abetting such an action his temporalities were distrained until he did prefer the royal clerk — such a humiliation that it was said to have occasioned his death . |
| 5 | He did give a little shove to a defender who was shielding Wallace from the ball as it was running thru to Coton , but Coton could nt hold it anyway so IMO it did nt affect the ‘ goal ’ . |
| 6 | Although he did not achieve any recognition from the United States that the USSR was an ‘ equal ’ power , he did secure an American guarantee not to invade Cuba , which has diminished the spectre of how the Soviet Union would respond to such an event . |
| 7 | He did discover a serious oil leak in its engine late last year and immediately changed it for the spare he keeps in what looks like a glass case in his garage . |
| 8 | He did make the inevitable protest of the recently released prisoner : was he to be hounded wherever he went , just because of the recent trip ‘ abroad ’ , and surely that debt was paid in full and he could be allowed to start again in , of all places , his old home , which he was only visiting in the hope of finding where his parents had moved to ; to lose touch with his dear mother was not to be borne ; he needed to talk with his parents , to explain things to them , and ask for their forgiveness . |
| 9 | More often than not though , when he did make an absolute cock up , it was either a big occasion ( fa cup final ) , or the cameras were there ( throws ball in own net at Anfield ) . |
| 10 | Willy De Roose may have struck a lucky year enabling him to make the voyage from the Atlantic to the Pacific without having to winter in the Arctic but he did do an enormous amount of preparation and historical reading beforehand for his planning of the voyage so that he was able to snatch opportunities whenever they came . |
| 11 | He DID bear a strong resemblance to Ben . |
| 12 | But when he did appear a suffocating shame kept her rooted to the spot . |
| 13 | By contrast , he did inherit a destructive family situation which weighed heavily on him for the rest of his life . |
| 14 | Moving on to Mr Curtis , I do n't want to dwell and re re er restate the the difference I had with Mr Curtis this morning , but again he did start a little bit of a red herring running by talking about the major commitment for retailing facilities , er there is a major commitment for retailing facilities in Greater York , er a degree of all provision . |
| 15 | But where he did recognise the private sector he merely saw conflict and not the contradictory unity . |
| 16 | For past all doubt he was on that path , he did find the poor soul dead , he did run to the castle , like an honest man , and tell the sheriff what he had found . |
| 17 | He does remember Hollar from ten years ago and that he did get a good degree ( p. 52 ) , and his enthusiasm for the fact is indicated by the emphatic nature of his approbation — " Of course you did . |
| 18 | But , he did get a special price ? |
| 19 | Bateman was unable to put his name on the League scorers ' list in spite of 32 appearances but he did get an important goal for Palace that season . |
| 20 | Although war prevented Bomberg from painting , he did receive an important commission in 1917 from the Canadian War Memorials Fund . |
| 21 | But while Mr Perot had the ear of the nation , to add to his own outstanding pair , he did spout a remarkable number of home truths . |
| 22 | This worked as a part of the discourse he was involved in ( the interview ) even if he did use a grammatical construction which might well have got a red line through it if he had written it as part of a school essay . |
| 23 | But he did like the young woman , a hoyden from Somerville who gambled on the horses and was always broke . |
| 24 | But he did enjoy the unfamiliar experience . ) |
| 25 | But he did believe the working class — which he referred to as if it were a single-willed person — would do somewhat unlikely things . |
| 26 | But he did notice the growing financial difficulty of his parents — unlike his son in 1939 , he was required to be furnished with a top hat for use on Sundays . |
| 27 | Yeah he did have a good go at us through Shane . |
| 28 | twisted , warped , it 's in a sense it 's exactly the same as the circle , you know you draw the circle it 's a line that starts there and goes perfectly round and comes back to the starting point , it 's exactly the same as that , but it 's been pushed out at the edges , it 's been dented in here , it 's not recognisable now as that same circle , although it 's what it is , and you see what , what has happened is although we 've sinned , although we 've come short of God 's plan , God has n't destroyed the whole thing , he could so easily just taken up the human life and crumple it up and thrown it on the heap , said finished with them , ca n't be bothered , I 'll start all over again with new people , I 'll have a new creation , well he did have a new creation , but he kept that same creation , he said I 'm gon na work on it , I 'm gon na do something with it , I 'm gon na restore it , I 'm gon na ransom it , I 'm gon na redeem it , I 'm gon na make it again , not just like it was , but I 'm gon na make it even more wonderful and more beautiful . |
| 29 | He did have a sneaking respect for Yanto however . |
| 30 | But when he had been speaking of Katherine 's children , her opinion of him had begun to change , it sounded as if he did have a genuine sympathy for them and their plight . |