Example sentences of "he [vb past] [v-ing] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Yet the Expressionist in him kept seeing psychological equivalents everywhere . |
2 | He made telling first half stops and saw his forwards come close to securing three points . |
3 | In particularly difficult cases he recommended using boiling water as well . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | He admitted receiving stolen property and breach of a conditional discharge . |
6 | He admitted sending both packages . |
7 | He admitted needing four years of therapy to get over their 10-year marriage . |
8 | Apparently he tried typing old tips from pre-Corky days , but they did n't work properly . |
9 | Craddock had a chronically infected nasal antrum , and Fleming and he tried instilling some mould filtrate into it , with no obvious benefit . |
10 | He prefered doing quiet things like throwing stones in the water or looking for his parents . |
11 | One sign that the marriage was in trouble was the time he spent giving after-dinner speeches recently . |
12 | The father-of-three , who used to smoke 60 cigarettes a day , claims that Imperial Tobacco failed to provide health warnings when he began smoking 30 years ago . |
13 | Bonito Oliva began to feel his way through this complex labyrinth of the contemporary art world in the Sixties , when , newly armed with degrees in law and philosophy , he began creating visual poetry as a member of Gruppo 63 . |
14 | He went into the shed where he kept the tractor and came back with his crowbar , with which he began levering more logs from the trailer to the ground . |
15 | Parallel with these , and with the encouragement of his friend Sir Walter Scott , whose own house at Abbotsford by Atkinson had pioneered the revival of old Scots forms , he began building hybrid Scots-English , neo-Jacobean houses at Milton Lockhart and Tyninghame in 1829 , reaching , with Bryce 's help , the full range of Scots detailing in his spectacular reconstruction of Thirlestane in 1840 and the large house he and Bryce built at Inchdairnie , Fife , in 1845 . |
16 | He began writing these experiences for a film and when he produced his manuscript it was partly autobiographical . |
17 | Early in 1831 he began transplanting mature trees , becoming expert in their removal ; he described his techniques in his The British Winter Garden ( 1852 ) . |
18 | As a palaeographer he enjoyed reproducing ancient scripts using implements of his own devising , just as an archaeologist he sought a deeper insight into ornaments by drawing them or even carving them with his own hands . |
19 | Initially , he sounded reasonable enough to appeal to some Unionists , but then he started discussing joint administration as an option . |
20 | On the other hand , perhaps the youth was just plain stupid and had n't realised what would happen when he started waving that placard about . |
21 | The 6ft 5in children 's presenter featured in the gossip columns when he started dating Welsh beauty Catherine Zeta Jones , star of The Darling Buds of May . |
22 | As before , Thomson , who has also put out calls for biographical material on other subjects , including S G Brown , signs himself a Member of the Institution of Electrical Engineers , helping establish credibility with editors unaware of the fact that he started collecting original papers in 1972 . |
23 | He started drinking 18 years ago . |
24 | He is claiming that Imperial Tobacco failed to issue warnings about the health hazards when he started smoking 30 years ago . |
25 | He started buying expensive clothes , a car ; he moved to a better flat … |
26 | He had given it up for his very inferior car when he started courting Big Brenda out of the Biology lab — Biological Brenda , as Preston called her , who gave them lessons on sex , and no doubt Sam as well . |
27 | I mean I spoke to Ken before he started doing this exercise , and I 'm worried |
28 | TV viewers , astute ones , will notice when Norman first hoves on to the screen that his swing is very upright , which is how he started playing this game . |
29 | He loved driving fast automobiles . |
30 | Mr Rabin said he favoured allowing some deportees to join the Palestinian delegation , but he ruled out the two deportees on the reported Egyptian list because they were PLO officials . |