Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb pp] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To date , he has received the most commissons of any architectural ‘ mousequeteer ’ : three at Disneyland , Florida , one in Burbank , California , three at Euro Disney . |
| 2 | They have followed each other up the ladder , but whenever he has reached the same rung she has gone one better . |
| 3 | ‘ A consultant should be able to help you because , unlike you , he has faced the same problems elsewhere , ’ he said . |
| 4 | All quite in order , of course , he has done the same thing at least twice before . |
| 5 | My own humble advice to him and I d do it humility , because he 's a very experienced Minister , be very wise and I think serve the interest of the Government in which he 's a member , if he has opted the latter course . |
| 6 | He has watched the same badger set for 46 years , he says , and with an average badger lifespan of under ten years , that means several generations . |
| 7 | He 'd used the same technique sometimes as a prelude to complaining about his marriage . |
| 8 | I wished he 'd had the same confidence in front of audiences because he was probably the most talented actor of us all . |
| 9 | He felt profoundly uneasy , for he 'd known the same sort of thing on several previous occasions : surviving relatives rabbiting on , as if so fearful of hearing the dreaded information . |
| 10 | He 'd bought the latter just after he had crossed London Bridge . |
| 11 | If he 'd shoot one person who challenged him , Marius Steen would do the same to anyone else he thought represented the same threat . |
| 12 | On 3 May he gave an address on Milton at the Frick Museum in New York , in which he recanted his previously low opinion of the poet , and on this occasion he seemed to one observer " incredibly refined , visibly aged " — he had given the same address two months before to the British Academy , and thus had saved himself additional effort . |
| 13 | And he started to cry , there , alone with her in the cemetery , next to those he had loved the most and missed the most . |
| 14 | Recalling the defeat of the 1991 coup , Yeltsin said that he had outwitted the former KGB chief , Vladimir Kryuchkov , whom he identified as the main organizer of the attempt . |
| 15 | READING Barrie Clement 's diatribe ( 6 October ) under the heading ‘ Union law policy remains unclear ’ , I wondered if he had attended the same Labour Party Conference as I did . |
| 16 | Earlier he had made the same gesture , in the car when she was afraid of the storm , the sky rolling over on itself , hanging over the wheatfields . |
| 17 | He later went on to say that he had seen the same man in the vicinity about 5.30 to 6.00 , and that he seemed to be heading for the Oliver 's shop . |
| 18 | When I recounted the tale to Steve Richardson , the blockbuster of the European last year and , like Daly , playing his first Masters , he quietly replied that he had played the same hole with a drive and seven-iron . |
| 19 | He had felt the same , momentarily , stepping into the dyeyard at Nicosia , but put it down to a foolish nostalgia . |
| 20 | To add to Mr Rather 's discomfort , the BBC 's Foreign News Editor , John Simpson , told the Post that he had rejected the same piece of film , narrated by Mr Rather , as false when CBS News offered it to the BBC in August 1987 . |
| 21 | I do n't want you , she 'd said , and he had insisted the same . |
| 22 | Rising to his feet on the floor of the penthouse Nicholas staggered for a moment , while his wrists were being wrenched back and lashed ; and knew from the way John was standing that he had received the same treatment . |
| 23 | He had noticed the same man several times during the day , culminating about 5.40pm when he noticed him on the corner of Cross Street and Friar Street . |
| 24 | When Robert McFarlane was charged with withholding information from Congress about diverting arms sale funds to the Contras , Reagan openly joked that he had done the same and withheld information from Congress . |
| 25 | He had done the same for old and sick people when he lived in the Borinage , so it was nothing new . |
| 26 | As a child he had done the same thing , as a game ; something to make life more interesting , give It some purpose , then he had begun to have dreams about it , to come to realise that it was real , that he had had an insight when he started to play the game , He had to do it now ; it felt horrible and uncomfortable when he tried to stop , even just to see what it was like walking down a street breathing " normally " . |
| 27 | Would that he had done the same in the biological parts . |
| 28 | He probably thought I was punching it because he had done the same thing . |
| 29 | ‘ I AM talking about a man that has done 26 years behind bars and if he had done the same crime today he would have got 10 years and would have got out five years ago ’ — actor Mike Reid on Reggie Kray . |
| 30 | He had kept the same job , they had lived in the same house , they had rented the same seaside bungalow for a summer holiday , year in year out . |