Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hume 's moral philosophy is mainly a development , on an effectively non-theistic basis , of Hutcheson 's and Hutcheson had already advocated a kind of utilitarianism , for in identifying moral goodness with benevolence , he had seen the goodness of a man as essentially the amount of happiness he produced divided by his opportunities . |
| 2 | But he quit to concentrate on his game and reaped an instant dividend . |
| 3 | However , Nellie 's nagging won the day and he agreed to go in his new Austin car and look for Dr Nolan . |
| 4 | He died within a year of taking up his new office , but by then he had successfully completed the first stage of the reduction of Wales which , according to his will , he expected to complete within his three-year term of office . |
| 5 | The court heard he became upset following his appearance as a member of the audience on Robert Kilroy-Silk 's programme in December 1991 the day after the IRA attacked British Rail property in London . |
| 6 | As a lawyer he became known for his defence of dissidents and conscientious objectors . |
| 7 | Born in Hereford in 1855 , he became known throughout his native county as he built up a detailed knowledge of the countryside of Herefordshire and the Welsh border . |
| 8 | He had given up writing poetry and had been living the duplicitous life of a critic deciphering his own works , but when he fell in love with Howard 's wife Elizabeth his former self was reawakened and he ceased to believe in his own existence . |
| 9 | The 45-year-old , who worked at Gateshead Metropolitan Borough Council from 1977 to 1985 and at Durham County Council from 1985 to 1988 , sparked a nationwide search when he failed to return to his High Farm home on August 24 . |
| 10 | But he failed to persevere with his invention ; nor was the era of relatively abundant labour supply and of machine-breaking propitious for its development , whereas McCormick perfected his reaper at a time favourable to its adoption by farmers in North America and Europe . |
| 11 | He got twisted like his arm . |
| 12 | He got , he got ki , he got chopped off his head and then they er |
| 13 | He had always skipped swimming because he got teased about his bones sticking out . |
| 14 | ‘ He got married during his last leave . |
| 15 | Leskov believed that " undermining the well-being and tranquillity of society " was the principal object of the intellectuals whom he sought to put in their place . |
| 16 | Gavin Hastings ' conversion , allied to his four earlier penalties , pitched Watsonians into a 6-19 advantage into which Selkirk could make no dents by the interval , Jeremy Brett mis-timing two penalties as he sought to build on his initial brace . |
| 17 | Sometimes he ventured to think of his role as that of a sparring partner . |
| 18 | He tried drawing in his stomach and straightening his shoulders , as instructed by the physical education teacher . |
| 19 | He tried to reach for his sword but could not . |
| 20 | He saw how Wolfe 's leg muscles flexed impotently as he tried to scrabble to his feet ; how he squirmed in the two men 's grip , trying to get away . |
| 21 | He wished he could be alone , he tried to say with his own look . |
| 22 | He tried to argue in his mind against this conviction , because he was frightened by feelings of such strength . |
| 23 | He tried to add to her full glass . |
| 24 | Or it may have been the sweet tyranny of his mother 's childhood rules , never quite outgrown , which he tried to recreate in his rigid adult life . |
| 25 | She gave him a basilisk gaze and he tried to dispose of his long legs around the legs of the Sheraton chair . |
| 26 | He tried to speak from his wheelchair , but his voice was gone and he gave up . |
| 27 | But as he tried to think of his work ( Charles had long since ceased to grace it with the name of ‘ his career ’ ) , his thoughts kept returning to the Steen situation . |
| 28 | He tried to shrink into his scholar 's stoop . |
| 29 | He puzzled over the dates on the backs of photographs , most of which seemed to have been taken in May , and he tried to get from his aunts the precise age gap between his parents and between his mother and Uncle Stanley . |
| 30 | His son Alf , the skinhead , had said that he would personally strangle any Muslim he found messing with his wife , adding that if Tehran was such a great place why did n't the bastards go back there ? |