Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The difference between an action under the Act and a negligence action , is that in the latter the plaintiff must show that the defendant was negligent , i.e. that he failed to take reasonable care in the preparation and putting up of the product . |
| 32 | There Tyndale wrote to urge him to avoid any discussion of the Sacraments , but he failed to take this advice and was convicted as a heretic precisely on this question and was burned . |
| 33 | He failed to interest American industrialists and in 1886 came to England , thereafter the centre of his working life . |
| 34 | Mr Field lost the nomination to a local Transport and General Workers ' union official , Mr Paul Davies , because he failed to secure sufficient votes in the trade union section . |
| 35 | Another deaf man , a David Bedwell who had partial hearing , enlisted in the Army Service Corps as a driver , and his deafness cost him his life when he failed to hear three challenges as he was approaching the gates of a barracks . |
| 36 | If he failed to pay one instalment , he was fined a halfpenny for every shilling , which became a penny after the second omission when the loan society secretary sent him a circular letter for which a fee of threepence was exacted . |
| 37 | Like his predecessors he failed to make any headway . |
| 38 | Further , he failed to get satisfactory answers to questions which he asked pupils about the work in hand and why they were doing certain things . |
| 39 | He got hitched fifteen years ago to some fashion model . |
| 40 | He admitted receiving stolen property and breach of a conditional discharge . |
| 41 | He admitted sending both packages . |
| 42 | He admitted needing four years of therapy to get over their 10-year marriage . |
| 43 | When he sought to justify National Socialism generally — the creed of the rubber truncheon and the dagger from the little shop in Park Street — he was still apt to do so by the incongruous example of Thomas Carlyle . |
| 44 | President Richard von Weizsäcker of West Germany paid an official visit to Poland on May 2-6 during which he sought to dispel Polish anxieties about German unification . |
| 45 | During the ensuing correspondence attempts were made on behalf of the applicant to obtain a much larger postponement whilst he sought to obtain legal aid for representation at the interview , but the Director of the Serious Fraud Office did not agree , and on 24 June she caused a further notice to be served , identical to the first , save that the interview was now to take place on 26 June , and the ‘ person under investigation ’ was identified as the applicant alone . |
| 46 | He tried to spot any spy-flies lurking in this foyer , little spies which so recently had been his own to command , till they were stolen . |
| 47 | Apparently he tried typing old tips from pre-Corky days , but they did n't work properly . |
| 48 | He tried to put one hand out to stop himself , but the gun was still in his grip . |
| 49 | Even when he tried to put this matter right , by putting his head forward and up , he was faced with an even greater difficulty because he saw again from the mirror that he was increasing the tension and pulling his head back even further . |
| 50 | He stepped back , pausing to think , but the more he tried to invent reasonable explanations , the more he came back to the obvious truth : someone had put out the light and locked him in . |
| 51 | He tried to take two dogs on . |
| 52 | He believed that the PASOK movement could make a real contribution to European as well as Greek politics , but after serving as education minister in Papandreou 's second administration ( when he tried to reintroduce classical Greek into the school curriculum ) , he left to found his own ill-starred party , the Greek Radical Movement . |
| 53 | Charles the Bald though he tried to regulate some forms of relations between landlords and peasants was in no position to intervene in those relations extensively . |
| 54 | So he tried to placate this man and he was n't going to be placated . |
| 55 | The police have already recorded one of their officers being attacked , when he tried to arrest some youths . |
| 56 | But Mr Wynn said : ‘ He was driving fast , at least 50 miles per hour , when he completely lost control as he tried to overtake another vehicle . |
| 57 | As scientist he adopted a certain method of explaining things ; as philosopher he tried to go one step further , he tried to justify his scientific methodology with arguments intended to prove that the things he did not need in his explanations — objective colours , sounds , and so on — did not exist . |
| 58 | Craddock had a chronically infected nasal antrum , and Fleming and he tried instilling some mould filtrate into it , with no obvious benefit . |
| 59 | He tried to apply psychoanalytic findings to political issues , and in particular to trying to change sexual understanding and morality among young people , both students and young workers . |
| 60 | Bunker was jostled , heckled , spat upon and sworn at as he tried to keep some semblance of order to explain the action he had already taken . |