Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb pp] [prep] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So deviation is a matter of degree , and at some indefinite point it becomes significant not that a writer has chosen x rather than y or z , but that he has chosen x at all . |
| 2 | began his career with in June 1950 as a maintenance electrician and over the years he has worked for at Wallingford , at Newark and from 1987 for at Gainsborough . |
| 3 | Ron wants to raise money for disabled children , whom he has worked with for many years . |
| 4 | The director said ‘ Action ’ , the sound recordist said ‘ Running ’ , the assistant cameraman said ‘ One forty-five take one ’ , and I put the first question — how did he think the war would have gone if he 'd started it with the 300 U-boats he 'd asked for in 1938 ? |
| 5 | He remembered , from the one or two he 'd gone to with her , that she was in the habit of pocketing things and crunching large handfuls of crisps . |
| 6 | Newman gave Tweed the name of the hotel he 'd stayed at during his earlier visit , said yes , he was phoning from a call box when Tweed posed the question . |
| 7 | Schellenberg held up a piece of paper which was actually some stationery from the hotel he 'd stayed at in Vienna the previous week . |
| 8 | I think it was his grandfather 's name that he 'd er , he 'd acquired at at that at that time . |
| 9 | Rayleen looked at him as if he 'd dropped from behind peeling wallpaper . |
| 10 | The Statue of the Etook Ha'chllt he 'd bartered for in a little town called Slew , which was now , regrettably , a blasted spot , its citizens the victims of a purge visited upon them for the crime of a song , written in the dialect of their community , suggesting that the Autarch of Yzordderrex lacked testicles . |
| 11 | Still he quoted that he 'd dealt with in his past . |
| 12 | Yakovlev may have exaggerated this shift , given the abstract Marxist tenets on class struggle that he came equipped with from Moscow , but there was already some objective evidence of this right at the start of NEP . |
| 13 | Was this a habit he had grown into over the years or had he always been like this , turning his wife into an invalid before there was any real need , a man who could only see himself in a solicitous relationship with other people ? |
| 14 | The room was a big improvement on the rat-hole he had crawled into at Hoogeveen . |
| 15 | Siegmar Silber corresponded in the 1970s with the family he had stayed with before leaving at the age of eleven to join relatives in the States . |
| 16 | ‘ There is a story of a Japanese potter who was commanded by his Emperor to reproduce a marvellous glaze he had chanced upon as a mere hazard of the fire . |
| 17 | This was not one of the women he had peeped at on other occasions . |
| 18 | The virtual destruction of the Liberal Party almost completed the political pattern which he had hoped for since the previous autumn . |
| 19 | Vanderford was the stripper he had lived with for three years in San Francisco , starting in 1980 , when he got out of jail . |
| 20 | In a book generally very critical of Reagan , this comes as a rather surprising encomium to his effectiveness in office , although Stockman also makes it clear that the president did not get all that he had asked for in tax cuts . |
| 21 | It had been the day he had gone to see about a job he had heard of for a general handyman who had some experience with animals . |
| 22 | Sometimes he wanted to practise , and might well require an hour or so on the putting green , or sometimes he fancied a pint or two of some obscure real ale that he had heard of in the vicinity . |
| 23 | In or about June 1987 , Mr. Burt met the appellant , whom he said he had heard of from his doing accountancy work for others , and he understood from the appellant , having been shown a curriculum vitae and other documents , that he was an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants , and a graduate or member of the Institute of Marketing . |
| 24 | His mind drifted over the people whom he had heard about for the first time that morning , groping for some sort of perspective . |
| 25 | ‘ Dean has told him he would do all his running and Dalian decided here was the guy he had waited for throughout his career , ’ said the Villa manager . |
| 26 | The heavy labour not only fought the flab around his waist but cured him of the insomnia he had suffered from for so many years . |
| 27 | We were at Oxford together , Robert and I , and have often talked the night away in former times , mingling literature and politics and cheap red wine with the cigarette smoke and the laughter and the brittle pile of old Al Bowlly records he had stumbled upon in a junk-shop kept by a one-time Polish airman . |
| 28 | Gould also made a considerable name for himself at home , finally attaining the scientific status he had yearned for as an ornithologist , on or off the field . |
| 29 | He needed the sort of chemist 's he had gone to as a child . |
| 30 | The words drew on his memory of a secret meeting he had gone to at the end of his first year in Glasgow . |