Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell the DI why ; I tell him about two more betrayals ; about the commanding officer who had let men die to cover up his own inadequacy ( or at least Andy believed he had , which was all that mattered ) , and I tell him about the locum doctor who could n't be bothered to attend a patient and then , when he eventually did pay a visit , just assumed her pain was something trivial . |
| 2 | Over the last weekend , he single-handedly managed to create a 3-4 point drop in his own party 's support , with a knock-on effect against Labour . |
| 3 | But he rarely had to spend a lunchtime without a game . |
| 4 | In spite of the strangeness of Eliot 's behaviour , however , few people begrudged him the happiness which in personal relations he had never experienced before : " He obviously needed to have a happy marriage , " Valerie Eliot said on a later occasion , " He could n't die until he had had it " . |
| 5 | And he only had to wait a couple of erm points left on his licence so if I 'd taken the dangerous thriving or something he could have lost his licence but erm that 's besides the point . |
| 6 | He just happened to have a pint of Guinness with a perfect head on it in his pocket . |
| 7 | He also admits to having a streak of the trainspotter in him , and it took three days ploughing through his extensive record collection before he finally managed to produce a top ten . |
| 8 | When he was a child , an artist visited his school — he happened to be a musician — and left behind him an impression of a man very clearly committed to his chosen subject , and a feeling of passion for doing something you really want to do , that stayed with Paul for years until he finally decided to become a photographer . |
| 9 | If Thorkell had once dreamt of dominating the young king then he had dreamt in vain , although he soon proceeded to occupy a position in Denmark which would cause further problems within the next two years . |
| 10 | He already seemed to know a hell of a lot and taught me a lot about living , philosophy and music . |
| 11 | It was part of the evidence he was collecting against himself : he locked at Blighty furtively in the barber 's ; he tried drawing women , sometimes in the nude , always with big busts , in a drawing-book he kept hidden at home ; he desperately wanted to kiss a girl to find out what it was like . |
| 12 | Morton reflected that if , indeed , he ever did become a royal photographer , life would be much duller for his acquaintances . |
| 13 | He still had to have a medical . |
| 14 | But he still had to find a wife . |
| 15 | In August he joined the Fabers on holiday in Sussex , but he still wanted to complete a rough version of the whole play by late summer . |
| 16 | By 1838 it was said of him that he ‘ ranks so deservedly high in his profession ’ , and he gradually began to obtain an increasing number of English commissions , so that by 1844 he moved back to London leaving his partner David Bryce in charge of his Edinburgh office . |
| 17 | James Sandoe , a fine American critic of crime fiction , once said of the typical private-eye that , although there was no specific reason for it , somehow he always had to have a shabby office with " shabby restaurant nearby serving leaden eggs and greasy bacon " . |
| 18 | Considering that he started his adult life as a wine and spirits salesman , he had certainly learnt the art of showmanship : whatever the fluctuating state of the theatre , he always managed to pay an enormous wage bill for his large casts . |
| 19 | Somehow he always seemed to give a thoroughly professional performance — quiet , controlled and extremely efficient . ’ |
| 20 | She often forgot how handsome Georg was , especially lately when he always seemed to have a scowl on his face . |
| 21 | Besides , he always began creating a character from the voice . |
| 22 | He always did look a funny sort of chap though did n't he ? |
| 23 | Antoine Eyeless still smiled at what he saw ; he hardly bothered to mumble an absent reply . |
| 24 | From about 1909 he was a friend of ( Sir ) John Beazley [ q.v. ] , with whom he once combined to buy a Sienese picture they had discovered in a dealer 's ; and he often travelled in Italy to look at pictures , sometimes in the company of his friend Scholfield . |
| 25 | He once tried to found a citizens ' police under the ‘ Fifth Estate ’ to monitor the doings of the FBI and the Central Intelligence Agency . |
| 26 | In the course of an afternoon he usually managed to finish a medium-sized painting , although larger paintings took two or three sessions . |
| 27 | He usually started drawing a figure from a certain point and then worked outwards , as if his drawings worked from within to without ; but in addition they were also extremely beautiful drawings in their own right . |
| 28 | He also denied doing a runner . |
| 29 | He also arranged to have a guitar I wished to sell collected on my behalf — all this and a wicked deal to boot ! |
| 30 | He also enjoyed luxuriating a little after a meal , and at such moments he seemed all the more benign and at peace even with himself . |