Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made loud wailing noises as he sailed back and forth over the wall , missing the top by inches . |
| 2 | Her husband , Avery George , denied similar charges , which were dismissed after after he agreed never to keep animals again . |
| 3 | He flung aside dust sheets to reveal a Regency breakfast table , a Victorian chiffonier , an Edwardian plant-stand , art-deco bookcase — each beautifully made and finished scaled-down models of the furniture in vogue during different periods . |
| 4 | He described how using films covered with tiny grooves called riblets could save the world 's airlines billions . |
| 5 | During his campaign , he promised not to raise taxes for the middle classes ; he is now faced with the realisation that if he is to cut the deficit and fulfil his promises to improve social welfare , education and training and to overhaul health provisions , then tax increases which extend beyond the seriously wealthy are unavoidable . |
| 6 | He was asked why he 'd later dumped lengths of pipe at nearby Slade Quarry and then twice lied to police about it . |
| 7 | The management rep told me he 'd even heard whispers of sympathetic action among the statistical clerks . |
| 8 | His first ever race was in an MG-based special ; he 'd also raced Jaguars and Astons , Ferraris and Maseratis — and Healeys . |
| 9 | But he 'd always hated horses and he knew nothing about boats . |
| 10 | He 'd always taken precautions . |
| 11 | He 'd only got pages 1 to 8 , and the corresponding ones at the back . |
| 12 | He 'd never seen stars like he 'd seen them around here , cold and diamond-sharp and so many . |
| 13 | The birds were n't anything he knew and he 'd never seen toadstools like that with spots on . |
| 14 | yeah , I could n't believe it I mean you go back five years he 'd never done things like that , he erm , missed the most easiest reds and left it right over the pocket and then Stephen Hendry went on and cleared up the whole frame , got a break of over a hundred |
| 15 | This policeman was having to give evidence and he 'd come to talk , oh I see you 've had the baby , cos he was talking to me it had happened I said , oh what did you have blah blah blah , blah blah blah , but the little devil went in the witness box , he denied about not being there on duty about putting his mac on , ooh and he 'd never clapped eyes on barrister or a solicitor and they said he 'll meet you before the case , so we had to go extra early meet this barrister and he never came and so they took us in this little room in all his wig and his gown , we got , oh what happened ? |
| 16 | With a shrug , he turned away to give orders for the care of the greys , and the visitors ' mounts . |
| 17 | So he turned eastwards to lower dales and valleys that ran off the uplands to prey on easy marks he found there , like young rabbits and the occasional sheep 's carcase . |
| 18 | He spent yesterday finalising terms of his payoff package with Treasury officials . |
| 19 | He began vaguely opening drawers and cupboards , trying to see out of the corner of his eye whether there were any more of Tessa 's belongings lying about the floor . |
| 20 | He favoured elaborately tied cravats in white cambric , but these were too difficult for the middle-class man of Victorian times to be bothered with . |
| 21 | ‘ It assumes that he went round armed with a little pistol , or that he knew where to lay hands on one in the house . ’ |
| 22 | He knew how to upset actors and seemed to take a delight in it . |
| 23 | He knew how to extract ideas and information from people without ever making them feel sucked of vitality — because he never failed to give back as much as he took . |
| 24 | He went not to collect particulars and feed them into a computer , he went to get down on his knees and get himself covered in mud and blood . |
| 25 | Knowing the others were depending on him , Luke kept his nerves to himself as he went round checking girths and bandages . |
| 26 | He went on to refute claims that CAP reform would result in more part time farmers and instead offered the suggestion that present farm policies were already driving people off the land . |
| 27 | He went on to score tries in two of the three Tests when Great Britain beat New Zealand in the 1989 series . |
| 28 | The embalming procedures were explained and illustrated and he went on to show examples of vascular preservation and plastination of body parts and sections . |
| 29 | He went on to obtain plates centred on about 1300 selected areas scattered uniformly over 75 per cent of the whole sky , on which he was able to recognise some 44000 galaxies down to apparent magnitude about 20 . |
| 30 | He went on to attack scientists on both sides of the lead debate ‘ who ally themselves to political campaigns … |