Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made telling first half stops and saw his forwards come close to securing three points . |
| 2 | He made to have another look at the distant diner . |
| 3 | I asked John how he planned to do this shot and he said , ‘ Simple . |
| 4 | With the help of his mother and sister , he agreed to continue this work at home which would be set by the school and assessment centre jointly . |
| 5 | Bishops Hall doing it nicely under Brad and it 's good to see him in the saddle today because he was offered the ride on Morley Street but he 'd already said yes and he 's a man of his word and he agreed to ride this horse . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , President Roh Tae Woo of South Korea welcomed the recent progress in relations between the two states , and on July 6 suggested that he expected to see Korean reunification achieved within five years . |
| 7 | He looked around him , as if he expected to see another presence there . |
| 8 | In particularly difficult cases he recommended using boiling water as well . |
| 9 | When this firm closed down in 1843 he transferred to the locomotive drawing office of the Railway Foundry works , Leeds , of Messrs Shepherd & Todd , where he became acting chief draughtsman . |
| 10 | He had centre front stage , his voice projected forward over Therese 's , and he ceased to make any attempt to act out the plotted movements with her . |
| 11 | At one point he grew so angry he failed to blow any kind of a note on his horn ; he dashed it to the ground in a fury of petulance . |
| 12 | When he failed to muster enough backing for a secret ballot Pawar announced his support for Rao who was then unanimously elected as leader on June 20. nation |
| 13 | However , I am surprised that he failed to mention persistent bed-wetting which , in my experience , was the one absolutely infallible method of obtaining release from military service . |
| 14 | Your dear brother left quite a few problems behind when he failed to take that corner . |
| 15 | The difference between an action under the Act and a negligence action , is that in the latter the plaintiff must show that the defendant was negligent , i.e. that he failed to take reasonable care in the preparation and putting up of the product . |
| 16 | There Tyndale wrote to urge him to avoid any discussion of the Sacraments , but he failed to take this advice and was convicted as a heretic precisely on this question and was burned . |
| 17 | If he failed to pay one instalment , he was fined a halfpenny for every shilling , which became a penny after the second omission when the loan society secretary sent him a circular letter for which a fee of threepence was exacted . |
| 18 | Like his predecessors he failed to make any headway . |
| 19 | He admitted receiving stolen property and breach of a conditional discharge . |
| 20 | When he sought to justify National Socialism generally — the creed of the rubber truncheon and the dagger from the little shop in Park Street — he was still apt to do so by the incongruous example of Thomas Carlyle . |
| 21 | During the ensuing correspondence attempts were made on behalf of the applicant to obtain a much larger postponement whilst he sought to obtain legal aid for representation at the interview , but the Director of the Serious Fraud Office did not agree , and on 24 June she caused a further notice to be served , identical to the first , save that the interview was now to take place on 26 June , and the ‘ person under investigation ’ was identified as the applicant alone . |
| 22 | He tried to put one hand out to stop himself , but the gun was still in his grip . |
| 23 | Even when he tried to put this matter right , by putting his head forward and up , he was faced with an even greater difficulty because he saw again from the mirror that he was increasing the tension and pulling his head back even further . |
| 24 | He believed that the PASOK movement could make a real contribution to European as well as Greek politics , but after serving as education minister in Papandreou 's second administration ( when he tried to reintroduce classical Greek into the school curriculum ) , he left to found his own ill-starred party , the Greek Radical Movement . |
| 25 | So he tried to placate this man and he was n't going to be placated . |
| 26 | But Mr Wynn said : ‘ He was driving fast , at least 50 miles per hour , when he completely lost control as he tried to overtake another vehicle . |
| 27 | As scientist he adopted a certain method of explaining things ; as philosopher he tried to go one step further , he tried to justify his scientific methodology with arguments intended to prove that the things he did not need in his explanations — objective colours , sounds , and so on — did not exist . |
| 28 | Craddock had a chronically infected nasal antrum , and Fleming and he tried instilling some mould filtrate into it , with no obvious benefit . |
| 29 | Bunker was jostled , heckled , spat upon and sworn at as he tried to keep some semblance of order to explain the action he had already taken . |
| 30 | So on Friday he tried to pull same stunt again so I says oh no you 're not , I says we 're not playing at that , I says chuff that for a lark , I says what do you think you 're playing at ? |