Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made to have another look at the distant diner . |
| 2 | I asked John how he planned to do this shot and he said , ‘ Simple . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | At the same time , communicating with Yeltsin behind Yazov 's back , he agreed to send some tanks to the White House . |
| 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 | He looked around him , as if he expected to see another presence there . |
| 7 | All the week the receipts had been unusually high , but this evening he expected to break all records . |
| 8 | I had written to Joe Ackerley about Dana , and how we were writing poems together , and he asked to see some examples of this unusual collaboration . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Guardian reader Peter John , who has holdings in Dumenil 's Swiss , French and Spanish funds , claims he failed to receive any dividends in June and November as he expected . |
| 12 | When he failed to promote any women into his first cabinet he insisted he would only appoint on merit . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | Your dear brother left quite a few problems behind when he failed to take that corner . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Like his predecessors he failed to make any headway . |
| 17 | He admitted sending both packages . |
| 18 | He tried to spot any spy-flies lurking in this foyer , little spies which so recently had been his own to command , till they were stolen . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Charles the Bald though he tried to regulate some forms of relations between landlords and peasants was in no position to intervene in those relations extensively . |
| 21 | So he tried to placate this man and he was n't going to be placated . |
| 22 | The police have already recorded one of their officers being attacked , when he tried to arrest some youths . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Craddock had a chronically infected nasal antrum , and Fleming and he tried instilling some mould filtrate into it , with no obvious benefit . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 ? |
| 27 | But , leaving that aside for a moment , he tried to make some sense of Steen 's behaviour . |
| 28 | Every time he tried to make any kind of serious statement or speech for years thereafter , people came back to the plants . |
| 29 | Again and again he tried to recreate that moment . |
| 30 | He stopped to drink some coffee . |