Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] a [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 Why does he want to marry a white woman ?
3 On 26 June he records shooting a wattle-cheeked honeyeater ‘ on the ranges near the Upper Torrens ’ ; he ‘ killed a Bittern on the 1st July near the Murray , above Gleeson 's Station ’ ; collected red throats ‘ about forty miles north of Lake Alexandrina ’ ; spotted a white-eyebrowed pomatorhinus ‘ near the bend of the river Murray ’ ( perhaps it was this remark that led some to guess that it was the great west bend to which Gould referred ) ; and shot a pink robin in ‘ a deep ravine under Mount Lofty ’ ( this was the last time an example of this species , Petroica rodinogaster was seen in South Australia , although one or two reliable observers said they had seen specimens in the area many years previously ) .
4 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 .
5 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 .
6 On the Monday he phoned bosses back in England to tell them he would not be coming back , and that he planned to build a new life with their money .
7 After dinner he planned to make a proper start on sorting out the contents of the house .
8 ALAN Hickman from Derbyshire became worried about the advice he was receiving over his pension transfer when he realised that each expert he consulted recommended a different course of action .
9 Charles , who had a taste for mechanical devices , commissioned Gionallo Torriano of Cremona to repair it , but owing to corrosion he found that this was impossible and he agreed to make a similar instrument .
10 Terry Long was always a welcome visitor to Selhurst Park , but it was an enormous pleasure to everyone connected with Crystal Palace when he agreed to make a public return here in October 1984 to give recognition to Jim Cannon , who is the one man to have played more games for us than Terry himself did .
11 He invented the morning press conference for the purpose of calling an afternoon press conference to say he expected to make a shattering announcement later in the day . ’
12 But he recovered to plant a glorious chip over Kelly from 20 yards .
13 The bungled pit stop dropped Hill from second on Prost 's tail to fourth and , although he recovered to grab a brilliant third place behind the Frenchman , it was difficult for him to hide his disappointment .
14 Dr Jones , of Coggeshall , was found guilty by the General Medical Council last month , which heard that he failed to detect a serious case of appendicitis , prescribing instead indigestion and ulcer tablets .
15 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 .
16 Clearly unnerved by the physical presence of Mark Hateley , he failed to clutch a looping cross by Robertson .
17 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 .
18 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 .
19 He failed to get an expected promotion and started drinking heavily .
20 But he failed to achieve a clean sweep of the end-of-season awards .
21 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 .
22 At that time he admitted controlling an industrial capital of £800,000 .
23 He admitted remaining a staunch supporter of the Meat and Livestock Commission which had done excellent work over the years .
24 STEWART McCutcheon , 23 , of Oxford Terrace , Bishop Auckland , was put on probation for two years yesterday after he admitted assaulting a 21-month-old baby in his care , causing actual bodily harm .
25 Encouraged by the new legislation , he sought to become a big player on the local production scene .
26 I should state here that Cizek only takes children nowadays whom he thinks have a certain aptitude for drawing and painting .
27 Now began a new phase of his life in which he tried to live a grand , filmstar-type life in a huge house on three acres of land .
28 John , 43 , whose weight has dropped to 8st 12lb , said that he tried to live a normal life for as long as possible .
29 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 .
30 He tried to visit a different European country on each of his spring trips . ’
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