Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He recalls the efforts he made to acquire a p-38 : ‘ A Lightning that I had been pondering about for some time was owned by a chap called Merril Wayne , who ran an airline called Wayne Airlines up in Anchorage , Alaska . |
| 2 | almost every he pass he made had an incorrect address — when back at the side he looked somehow better — a good thing to get £500,000 for the guy if plays like that all the time . |
| 3 | He chanced to find an identical skull in Cambridge which , to his surprise , came not from Egypt but from the Chatham Islands , near New Zealand . |
| 4 | Now they got much the same thing for the dinner , but if the prisoner had got any money of his own , and if he cared to contribute an extra sixpence he got a hot meal at midday . |
| 5 | On the Monday he phoned bosses back in England to tell them he would not be coming back , and that he planned to build a new life with their money . |
| 6 | After dinner he planned to make a proper start on sorting out the contents of the house . |
| 7 | ALAN Hickman from Derbyshire became worried about the advice he was receiving over his pension transfer when he realised that each expert he consulted recommended a different course of action . |
| 8 | Charles , who had a taste for mechanical devices , commissioned Gionallo Torriano of Cremona to repair it , but owing to corrosion he found that this was impossible and he agreed to make a similar instrument . |
| 9 | Terry Long was always a welcome visitor to Selhurst Park , but it was an enormous pleasure to everyone connected with Crystal Palace when he agreed to make a public return here in October 1984 to give recognition to Jim Cannon , who is the one man to have played more games for us than Terry himself did . |
| 10 | He invented the morning press conference for the purpose of calling an afternoon press conference to say he expected to make a shattering announcement later in the day . ’ |
| 11 | But he recovered to plant a glorious chip over Kelly from 20 yards . |
| 12 | The bungled pit stop dropped Hill from second on Prost 's tail to fourth and , although he recovered to grab a brilliant third place behind the Frenchman , it was difficult for him to hide his disappointment . |
| 13 | Dr Jones , of Coggeshall , was found guilty by the General Medical Council last month , which heard that he failed to detect a serious case of appendicitis , prescribing instead indigestion and ulcer tablets . |
| 14 | He failed to hold an innocuous drive from the edge of the box by Gus Caesar and Andy Smith reacted swiftly to despatch the rebound into the net . |
| 15 | Clearly unnerved by the physical presence of Mark Hateley , he failed to clutch a looping cross by Robertson . |
| 16 | Unfortunately the station master was rather deaf and he failed to hear an approaching train in the inky darkness of the tunnel and he was struck down and killed . |
| 17 | Simon was made aware that he might find himself obliged to stand down as a Parliamentary candidate if he failed to make an honest woman out of the Press Lord 's daughter . |
| 18 | He failed to get an expected promotion and started drinking heavily . |
| 19 | But he failed to achieve a clean sweep of the end-of-season awards . |
| 20 | France was pushed to the same position in part because of the above considerations , and in part as a consequence of the French presidential election of 1965 in which de Gaulle , because he failed to win an absolute majority and was forced into a second run-off election against his nearest contender , suffered a not inconsiderable loss of prestige . |
| 21 | Although he insisted that he had done nothing remiss — he admitted receiving a 5,000,000 yen loan from an associate of the firm in 1989 but claimed to have repaid the money — he agreed to resign from the party ( but not from the Upper House ) for having caused embarrassment to the SDPJ . |
| 22 | At that time he admitted controlling an industrial capital of £800,000 . |
| 23 | He admitted remaining a staunch supporter of the Meat and Livestock Commission which had done excellent work over the years . |
| 24 | STEWART McCutcheon , 23 , of Oxford Terrace , Bishop Auckland , was put on probation for two years yesterday after he admitted assaulting a 21-month-old baby in his care , causing actual bodily harm . |
| 25 | Encouraged by the new legislation , he sought to become a big player on the local production scene . |
| 26 | Now began a new phase of his life in which he tried to live a grand , filmstar-type life in a huge house on three acres of land . |
| 27 | John , 43 , whose weight has dropped to 8st 12lb , said that he tried to live a normal life for as long as possible . |
| 28 | He tried to live an ordinary life , working as a bus driver , and accounts clerk at Harrods and later studying for a zoology degree , but nothing made him content . |
| 29 | ‘ He tried to visit a different European country on each of his spring trips . ’ |
| 30 | MILLIONS of TV viewers around the world witnessed Mr Mellor as he tried to humiliate an Israeli army colonel who arrested a Palestinian boy . |