Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet the Expressionist in him kept seeing psychological equivalents everywhere . |
| 2 | He planned to pursue integrative schemes as a private citizen and it was thought doubtful whether he could achieve the same effect in that capacity . |
| 3 | In December 1990 , the Energy Minister , John Wakeham , had said that he planned to approve renewable-energy projects amounting to between 150 and 200 megawatts of electricity output in 1991 . |
| 4 | Finally , he agreed to meet various costs and charges of the countess ' children and grandchildren at her request . |
| 5 | Finally , he agreed to meet various costs and charges of the countess ' children and grandchildren at her request . |
| 6 | He agreed to station Iranian guards both inside and outside the walls of the compound in the future . |
| 7 | Despite his personal battle against deafness he fought to help battered wives and rape victims . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , President Roh Tae Woo of South Korea welcomed the recent progress in relations between the two states , and on July 6 suggested that he expected to see Korean reunification achieved within five years . |
| 9 | In particularly difficult cases he recommended using boiling water as well . |
| 10 | Was it sheer bravado on Obispal 's part that he disdained to fire explosive bolts at that creature which itself could not manipulate a gun ? |
| 11 | When this firm closed down in 1843 he transferred to the locomotive drawing office of the Railway Foundry works , Leeds , of Messrs Shepherd & Todd , where he became acting chief draughtsman . |
| 12 | However , I am surprised that he failed to mention persistent bed-wetting which , in my experience , was the one absolutely infallible method of obtaining release from military service . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He failed to interest American industrialists and in 1886 came to England , thereafter the centre of his working life . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He admitted receiving stolen property and breach of a conditional discharge . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Apparently he tried typing old tips from pre-Corky days , but they did n't work properly . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He tried to make small talk but got no replies . |
| 26 | A policeman was one of the first victims , injured when he was hit by a car as he tried to direct rush-hour traffic around an accident on icy roads . |
| 27 | In 1538 he was named a justice of the peace for Wiltshire , an appointment he retained until his death , and in March 1539 , during an invasion scare , he helped to muster able men in Malmesbury and elsewhere in the county . |
| 28 | He helped to assemble geological specimens on microscope slides , and in addition attended classes in chemistry and other subjects at the Institution . |
| 29 | He promised to respect human rights , to create a pluralist and secular society , and to hold free elections . |
| 30 | He promised to have certain ones re-examined , but the outcome was that they remained unchanged . |