Example sentences of "he [vb past] a [noun sg] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The chairman of Lufthansa recently visited Moscow where he made a speech referring pointedly to the close relationship the German airline enjoyed with the Russians in the 1920s and 1930s . |
| 2 | He made a gesture indicating helplessness . |
| 3 | As the build-up to the pending general election got under way , the position of the leader of the Liberal Democrats , Paddy Ashdown , came under scrutiny when on Feb. 5 he made a statement acknowledging that some years earlier he had had a " brief relationship " with a woman ( identified as Patricia Sullivan , now known under the name Howard ) ; he stressed , however , that this " should have remained a private and personal matter of concern only to those involved " . |
| 4 | He stabbed a man scrambling up the bulwarks beside him , and cheered as Hector 's galleys swept up to the shore and another horde of Macleans poured from them to the rescue of their clansmen . |
| 5 | When he got outside and crossed the square , he met a girl hurrying towards the church . |
| 6 | There was one bad moment , when he met a car going in the opposite direction . |
| 7 | Because he had to have money he got a job working in a sandwich bar near Baker Street . |
| 8 | Then he got a job selling tickets on the railways , and left home . |
| 9 | In return , he got a letter assuring him that Michael Joyce was ‘ one of the most respectable , law-abiding and loyal men in the locality , and one who has been consistently an advocate of the ‘ pro-Allied ’ cause since the beginning of the war . ’ |
| 10 | Lagerfeld sent sketches off and six months later he got a telegram telling him that he had won the first prize in the group for coats . |
| 11 | Her husband says he found a photographer hiding in some bushes by his house . |
| 12 | He found a man keeping geese in his kitchen and a woman with a typewriter in a turret . ’ |
| 13 | A doctor who examined the soldier who claimed he had been hit by the car said he found a bruise measuring 10cms on his left thigh . |
| 14 | On reaching the room he found a chair lying in one corner . |
| 15 | For centuries the traveller who wanted to cross a sea or an ocean went to the nearest port and hung about until he found a ship going in his direction . |
| 16 | He moved a step nearing the smaller of the two men , who happened to have two cameras slung around his neck . |
| 17 | He provided a sketch showing the exact stage dimensions , then went on with detailed instructions : |
| 18 | He caught a youth breaking into a car and also won a Post Office award for fighting off two men trying to break into his van . |
| 19 | He promised a ceasefire signing " very , very soon " . |
| 20 | The sketch was one where he played a man contemplating how different life might have been had there not been a world war . |
| 21 | Approaching a bridge he received a message telling him there was firing ahead . |
| 22 | After a very successful tour of West Indies , he took his second team off to Australia , but on the eve of the first Test he received a cable telling him that his widowed mother had died . |
| 23 | On the morning of the auction he received a letter informing him that after a ‘ first examination ’ the self-portrait was considered ‘ to be of major interest to the national heritage ’ and as such would go before a commission for its fate to be decided . |
| 24 | He told a press briefing that the issue remained under review , and emphasised that he hoped the legislation on unofficial strikes would help to prevent disruption of essential services . |
| 25 | The conversation ranged widely through wildlife management , the history of the landscape and of hunting and he was on very shaky ground there I can tell you control of pests , he likened a farmer killing a rat with a dog , to the whole panoply of fox hunting . |
| 26 | He 'd a lot going and . |
| 27 | I remember that we got round to talking about historical hindsight , or the kind of attitude to which André Maurois ( to whom I was to introduce Eliot years later ) referred when he imagined a man saying ‘ Gentlemen , we are about to enter upon the Middle Ages ’ . |
| 28 | As the stragglers passed he noticed a man sitting on a tree root , nursing a bloodstained foot . |
| 29 | One afternoon , evidently , this butler had entered the dining room to make sure all was well for dinner , when he noticed a tiger languishing beneath the dining table . |
| 30 | He says Mr Cotterell the sub postmaster was in his shop when he noticed a youth standing behind his counter . |