Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well why would he want to tell him all his failures , especially that he 's viewing Nick as an opponent . |
| 2 | This is why although he dares to pose his overwhelming question , he can never be in a position to answer it with more than an assertion and the promise of more totalizations . |
| 3 | Giving evidence , coroner 's officer DC Dave Hemes told how Mr Ryder , of Green Lane , Formby , gave no hint that he planned to take his own life . |
| 4 | He planned to keep them idle , like some ship 's crew becalmed miles from shore . |
| 5 | Ten years later he produced singlehanded his monumental theory of gravity — the general theory of relativity . |
| 6 | His tone suggested that he thought otherwise , and served to confirm her earlier instinctive feeling that he expected to find her flawed , contemptible . |
| 7 | He asked to see his social services file and eventually the local authority agreed , provided the donors of information consented . |
| 8 | There he wrote Valentino : an Historical Romance of the Sixteenth Century , published in 1885 , the year when he ceased to hold his diplomatic office . |
| 9 | He seems to have taken no part in public life under the Commonwealth , but when the Exchequer was re-established under the Protectorate he failed to regain his old post as auditor , having to wait for this until the Restoration , when he protested , perhaps predictably , that he had never really been a parliamentarian at all . |
| 10 | Does he regret now avoiding the operation all those years ago , before he failed to scale his own Olympian heights in Rome and Seoul ? |
| 11 | Even when he failed to ring her later in the week , as she had commanded him to do , once he had sorted life to meet her expectations , she did not ring him . |
| 12 | Desmond McAteer was given a two year suspended prison sentence at the city 's Crown Court when he admitted attacking his rival involved in the love triangle with his wife . |
| 13 | After two headships in Inner London he sought to keep his provincial school as one which was good at caring for its pupils as well as one which was well organized in providing sought-after subjects on top of the core curriculum . |
| 14 | Beaten to death : A 45-year-old married man was beaten to death in Cardiff by a gang of teenage vandals after he tried to stop them damaging traffic bollards . |
| 15 | Meredith watched the struggle on the man 's face as he tried to control his wayward mouth , and wondered why he did n't want to grin when he was so obviously amused by her cheek . |
| 16 | ‘ You 're so lovely … for years I 've dreamed of you lying beside me like this ! ’ he breathed thickly , his powerful body shaking with tension as he tried to control his mounting passion . |
| 17 | For a moment Seb had forgotten his sprained ankle but it reminded him in no uncertain fashion when he tried to put his full weight on it . |
| 18 | Jackie 's face tied itself in a knot as he tried to remember his own mother . |
| 19 | She watched the vibrator disappear up his rectum ; and heard his gasp as he tried to move his swollen prong inside her . |
| 20 | He tried to move his pompous features significantly . |
| 21 | He tried to do his best for Lennie by only stressing his good points . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Tesselmann grabbed at the handle of the freight car and hauled himself off the ground , his legs swinging precariously in the air as he tried to clasp his other hand around the handle . |
| 24 | She started to come again as he tried to slide his whole hand deep into her soaked vagina . |
| 25 | He tried to phone you last night , the number you gave him , but there was something wrong with the line- ’ |
| 26 | He tried to develop his own Formula One team in 1976 but gave that up in 1980 when near to financial disaster . |
| 27 | While Patsy silently and privately swore his revenge as he tried to scrub himself clean . |
| 28 | He tried to keep it quiet , but there were people in the neighbourhood who were all too eager to be a part of the excitement . |
| 29 | WHEN Alex Ferguson joined Manchester United as the new boss he wanted me out of Old Trafford so badly he tried to make me redundant . |
| 30 | He tried to make it sound fresh and exciting . |