Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , we fought we 'd better see if 'e 'd pinched anyfing , ’ said Linda . |
| 2 | Everything around him seemed to have grown bigger ( just like Alice in Wonderland , in n it ? ) . |
| 3 | The Leicester family who employed him vowed to continue fighting to change the rules . |
| 4 | Whereas the late King James the second , by the Assistance of divers Evil Counsellors , Judges , and Ministers , imployed by him did endeavour to Subvert and extirpate the Protestant Religion , and the Lawes and Liberties of this Kingdome … |
| 5 | But when he had been speaking of Katherine 's children , her opinion of him had begun to change , it sounded as if he did have a genuine sympathy for them and their plight . |
| 6 | How long he lay against Mick he did n't know ; he only knew that between the sounds he had been emitting and the wash of tears that seemed to have drained him dry , a voice within him had kept repeating : ‘ She killed your father , Mick ; she killed your father . |
| 7 | Many before him had attempted to explain cookery in scientific terms and had succeeded only in turning both science and cookery into the deadliest of bores . |
| 8 | Truman and most those advising him had come to believe that the Soviet Union was aiming to spread the Communist system whenever and wherever it could : to Poland , Bulgaria , Rumania , Hungary . |
| 9 | Self knowledge for him had come to mean recognition of his own weaknesses and shortcomings and nothing more . ’ |
| 10 | Leeds worked hard to use the sources to provide a chronology of the development of brooch types ( 1933 ) and the extremely dubious assumptions he made have coloured a great deal of thinking to this day . |
| 11 | The new renown of Walter Machin and the heady publicity which had resulted for the town in which he lived had suggested to the Arts Club committee ( a mixture of the local genteel and the local far left ) that a retrospective of the work of his stepson might neatly capitalize on the widespread interest . |
| 12 | Saying he planned to continue to practise law , he said he was ‘ very proud ’ of his track record in helping companies and their shareholders . |
| 13 | SHERPA Tashi Tenzing , 27 , grandson of Tenzing Norgay , one of the two men who first climbed Mt Everest , yesterday told a New Zealand newspaper he planned to try to scale mountain on 29 May , the 40th anniversary of the first ascent . |
| 14 | He knew he was disappointing where the riding was concerned , although no one had actually told him so — the whole business of being as one with the animal he rode seemed to elude him . |
| 15 | In a radio address on 24 May , for example , he announced three major categories of reform , which he expected to see accomplished before the end of the year : reform of the civil service ; nationalization of the coal , electricity , and banking industries ; and a plan to boost France 's birthrate . |
| 16 | He expected to have to face an immediate follow-up attack , but nothing of the sort happened . |
| 17 | The local authority to which he applied refused to provide the necessary grant , and the person was sadly compelled to turn down a place on a one-year post-graduate course which had already been offered to him . |
| 18 | He asked Hitching to find out whether this could be detected scientifically . |
| 19 | He said , as all drivers say , that when he ceased to enjoy racing , he would stop ; he did not say that he had stopped enjoying it , it was simply evident . |
| 20 | The three he failed to save had their appeals turned down . |
| 21 | In his haste to get away he grated the gears and the wheels shrieked in protest when he failed to balance the-changeover between clutch and accelerator . |
| 22 | No , yeah , he 's the captain of er see he got , he got demoted did n't he ? |
| 23 | Well he got promoted did n't he he 's stable now that child though has n't he ? |
| 24 | He got paid did he ? |
| 25 | cos he got married did n't he , er |
| 26 | Certainly not compared to the time he got caught messing around on the roof of Battersea Power Station trying to nick the lead . |
| 27 | He admitted failing to comply with a red signal and was fined £50 , had three penalty points imposed on his licence and was ordered to pay £20 costs . |
| 28 | But last week he admitted having advised that any application for a licence should emphasise the ‘ peaceful use ’ of the products . |
| 29 | Bird Jr denied Colombian suggestions that he had known about the 1989 shipment , but he admitted having had discussions with a former Israeli army officer who had plans to establish a business in Antigua . |
| 30 | He admitted having tried cocaine but said it did not seem to do much for him ; cocaine was in ‘ because the chicks dig it sexually ’ . |