Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | almost every he pass he made had an incorrect address — when back at the side he looked somehow better — a good thing to get £500,000 for the guy if plays like that all the time . |
| 2 | He chanced to find an identical skull in Cambridge which , to his surprise , came not from Egypt but from the Chatham Islands , near New Zealand . |
| 3 | Now they got much the same thing for the dinner , but if the prisoner had got any money of his own , and if he cared to contribute an extra sixpence he got a hot meal at midday . |
| 4 | He failed to hold an innocuous drive from the edge of the box by Gus Caesar and Andy Smith reacted swiftly to despatch the rebound into the net . |
| 5 | Unfortunately the station master was rather deaf and he failed to hear an approaching train in the inky darkness of the tunnel and he was struck down and killed . |
| 6 | Simon was made aware that he might find himself obliged to stand down as a Parliamentary candidate if he failed to make an honest woman out of the Press Lord 's daughter . |
| 7 | He failed to get an expected promotion and started drinking heavily . |
| 8 | France was pushed to the same position in part because of the above considerations , and in part as a consequence of the French presidential election of 1965 in which de Gaulle , because he failed to win an absolute majority and was forced into a second run-off election against his nearest contender , suffered a not inconsiderable loss of prestige . |
| 9 | At that time he admitted controlling an industrial capital of £800,000 . |
| 10 | He tried to live an ordinary life , working as a bus driver , and accounts clerk at Harrods and later studying for a zoology degree , but nothing made him content . |
| 11 | MILLIONS of TV viewers around the world witnessed Mr Mellor as he tried to humiliate an Israeli army colonel who arrested a Palestinian boy . |
| 12 | Nothing , he found , was more effective — as he tried to devise an inner world that at the same time avoided the black hole of dejection — than work , solitary work , work in which one was gladly buried . |
| 13 | At the same time he tried to make an economic case for expenditure in that area : ‘ Moreover , from the trade point of view , this area was probably worth between one and one and a half million employed men to this country . |
| 14 | He tried to assume an amorous but handsome expression throughout the whole . |
| 15 | She wagged her finger at Frank , even for the first week behaving flirtatiously with him — while he tried to hide an obvious mixture of embarrassment and pleasure . |
| 16 | He proposed to create an additional fund to increase the endowment and started it off himself with a donation of £1,000 . |
| 17 | Crucially , he promised to undertake an immediate and fundamental review of the tax . |
| 18 | ‘ It was probably something he 'd heard an old actor say , ’ he said . |
| 19 | Before marrying Shirley , he 'd written an honourable and honest letter to Betty Fowler , but he 'd received no reply . |
| 20 | He 'd made an unusual mistake in not locking the larder . |
| 21 | Edgar wicket keeper , innkeeper and redoubtable raconteur confided some time after midnight that to help run in his pain-free new hip joint he 'd taken an early morning paper round in Aycliffe village . |
| 22 | He 'd used an Armalite semi-auto on the creatures as they stampeded from crag to crag . |
| 23 | Or maybe he 'd spotted an old piece of long-forgotten shrapnel . |
| 24 | He 'd had an addled idea that he wanted to stand there all night , so that first thing in the morning he could approach the kids and explain to them what it was he was after . |
| 25 | He 'd had an intense affair at Oxford which had drifted through almost a dozen years of indeterminate life and ended in a brutal rejection . |
| 26 | He 'd had an irrational feeling that something must have happened in his absence , simply because he had n't been there , but he was wrong . |
| 27 | Nor were matters helped by the fact he has two very important business associates here whom he 'd guaranteed an excellent day 's shooting . |
| 28 | Mrs Dass exclaimed softly from her sun-chair in the bow window , and her husband confessed that he 'd found an old set of blackout curtains that were just about right for size . |
| 29 | Already he 'd learned an unbelievable amount , she said . |
| 30 | I must have been chatting to him for about 20 minutes and he told me he 'd needed an urgent lift . |