Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many may have felt betrayed , but there is little to suggest that MacDonald was any the less of a socialist than others , nor is there hard evidence to suggest that he schemed to bring about the collapse of the Labour government . |
| 2 | On Nov. 23 former Vice-President Oginga Odinga announced that he planned to set up a political party , saying that an open political process was necessary to wipe out " political hooliganism and thuggery " . |
| 3 | Gould would also be reunited with Natty and Jemmy , who he planned to take on the Namoi expedition . |
| 4 | I can even remember when Finnegans Wake was thought to be incomprehensible and the gentleman sitting on my right , George Craig , is almost , but not quite , my contemporary at this university and I was genuinely delighted when he agreed to take on the herculean task of giving a lecture a centenary lecture on James Joyce . |
| 5 | Prosecution witness Isham Chandra Dutta said he agreed to set up a dummy gems company in Bombay , for a £20,000 fee , which included a mail message centre with false letterheads and invoices . |
| 6 | In sampling and inspecting water quality he is his own agent to decide where and when he goes to pick up a sample . |
| 7 | Mr Thomas Russell was asked to board up the back part of he building to keep out the rain . |
| 8 | ‘ Ca n't be done , ’ she said , feeling shamed by the look of despair on his face , and worse still as he fought to bring back the blankness to cover it . |
| 9 | True to his belief in the efficacy of competition , he avoided building up an extensive chain of outlets , and preferred to thrive by vigorous marketing . |
| 10 | At the time he expected to touch down the aircraft suddenly ‘ pulled down to his left ’ , he felt the back of the aircraft buckle and was aware of debris coming through the canopy . |
| 11 | Bigwig he asked to bring up the rear . |
| 12 | He was probably one of the first to discover the principle of electrotyping by depositing copper electrolytically on to an engraved copper plate , but , as with many of his other inventions and discoveries , he failed to take out a patent and most of the benefits were reaped by others . |
| 13 | His predecessor made two cardinal mistakes , replied Mr Kravchuk : he formed a political alliance with Russia , and he failed to build up an independent army . |
| 14 | Driving with considerable power , he failed to get over a ball of fullish length , giving Wessels a stinging catch at mid-on . |
| 15 | Oh we used to have phosphate and sulphur , potash , coal , granite you name it anything , general cargo we 've had , loaded everything , even dead bodies , we sent , there was one young , one young person , he got drowned up the coast there and they and he had to go back to Holland and they brought that from out the warehouse and put it on the stern of our ship , his coffin , they sent that back and they erm export er pigs to Poland , all live pigs , pedigree pigs . |
| 16 | He got sold down the line . |
| 17 | He looks to score off every ball and he 's the best runner between the wickets I 've ever seen . ’ |
| 18 | Norman Dale , 50 , was struck down as he tried to pick up a cup of tea . |
| 19 | In her motherly concerned way , she was cosseting him as he tried to pick up the pieces of his life . |
| 20 | When his father , frustrated after years as a POW , returned , he tried to lay down the law . |
| 21 | He tried to set up the League of Princes , an international peace-keeping force aimed primarily against the Turks , and the exhibition shows the route of the journeys he made to other countries to promote the idea . |
| 22 | He tried to open out the conversation . |
| 23 | The agent hesitated as he tried to read out the name of the Russian ship from the bill of laden in his hand . |
| 24 | With everyone else gone Tonks had to fend for himself so he tried to find out the truth . |
| 25 | Amanullah had been influenced by what he saw as the modernising reforms introduced in Turkey and Iran : he tried to build up a central army , organised a parliament , and decreed that women should wear western dress : the final straw for the tribes came when he made their leaders listen to a five-day speech . |
| 26 | He tried to bite back a laugh , but the grin would not be entirely suppressed . |
| 27 | First he scratched away the plaster , then he tried to pull out the bricks . |
| 28 | He tried to straighten out the brim but it had been curled and folded so often it was beyond repair . |
| 29 | Hovering in the doorway , Wilson heard Mr Browning plead with her to say something to him and then she listened while he tried to make out a case for the French Emperor , to argue this might not be the betrayal it seemed , and that all hope might not be lost . |
| 30 | He tried to sniff back the wetness that had sprung to his eyes , but a few hot tears managed to spill over and course down his burning cheeks . |