Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , too , Colin Watson was particularly adept in the creation of the detective he chose to investigate , or struggle with , the curious crimes he made to happen in everyday Flaxborough . |
| 2 | The sounds he made fell into the embrace of a dead echo , and he felt that he might be the last man on earth . |
| 3 | As he made to sneak up the corridor to the stairs , the sounds of heated debate reached his ears , issuing from the front parlour . |
| 4 | But he lived to reflect on what he described as the ‘ luckiest escape of my life ’ |
| 5 | He chanced to resurface at a moment in the film when the divine Ms Rau is indulging in carnal acrobatics with the leading male actor . |
| 6 | He had himself frequently led patrols along the narrow roads and boreens that ran like veins through the countryside about Cork , and before that he had spent more time than he cared to remember in the muddy trenches and dug-outs of France with shells screaming overhead . |
| 7 | His ‘ guys ’ in Lebanon , the Asmar network , were not to be risked on routine intelligence for the DEA , and Coleman had no other contacts there that he cared to expose to the Syrian-backed heroin cartel in the Bekaa Valley . |
| 8 | Preston knew , if he cared to think about it . |
| 9 | In particular , Haslam found the camaraderie he experienced working alongside mineworkers extremely rewarding . |
| 10 | ‘ Nice boy , ’ he planned to say to Sheila later , ‘ artistic , too . |
| 11 | Mr Goldberg said they could bring a libel action , but he planned to wait until the appeal verdict . |
| 12 | Henry was going to add a chapter towards the end of The Complete History of Wimbledon in which he planned to deal with the failure of nerve he sensed in the place . |
| 13 | Kyffin Williams never intended to be a painter , he planned to go into the army but was rejected on medical grounds . |
| 14 | Once demobbed he planned to go to New Zealand and start a new life . |
| 15 | To show the world how many princes felt it worth their while to dance attendance on him , Henry invited them and also the King of Navarre to a court he planned to hold in Limoges at the end of the month . |
| 16 | There were other , smaller tasks which he wished to complete : when he had finished the play , he planned to revise for publication the lectures which he had given on education at the University of Chicago . |
| 17 | He drew up a very elaborate Writer 's Guide to explain what he had in mind to the authors he planned to canvass for Doctor Who . |
| 18 | And Reynolds said he planned to return to indoor competition in the next couple of months and hoped to compete in both the world indoor and outdoor championships . |
| 19 | With this in mind , he planned to return to the project and , in 1978 , funded by the National Endowment for Humanities , the documentation entered its final phase . |
| 20 | Nithard pointed out that what Lothar had done to him was just what he planned to do to Charles . |
| 21 | The despatches that mapped every move he planned went into Wales ahead of him by this same route . |
| 22 | Were he to be called in the immigration debate Joshua would most certainly abandon the bookshop where he planned to spend at least part of the morning . |
| 23 | ‘ You 've got to be kidding ! ’ yelped Margaret Lenham , as much astonished as afraid at the sight of what he planned to use for the operation : a knitting needle . |
| 24 | Next month he planned to retire from the army , but says he could n't resist this call to duty . |
| 25 | Yet when his campaign train reached McCarthy 's state of Wisconsin , where he planned to speak in defence of his old chief , he thought better of it and let that guy from the gutter stay on the train . |
| 26 | He said he planned to fly to Libya with leading Scottish defence QC Lord Macaulay to meet the accused men . |
| 27 | James Callaghan , when prime minister , would have the subjects he planned to raise on a piece of card , but often did n't bother to raise them , as they gossiped about politics or took a stroll around the gardens on summer evenings . |
| 28 | Police even found he had hidden a piece of metal , which they believe he planned to file into a knife , hidden in the sole of his shoe . |
| 29 | b ) A book about the Battle of Thermopylae , which he planned to write after finishing Bouvard et Pécuchet . |
| 30 | He plans to accompany Mr Major to his count in Huntingdon and will forgo the election night dinner he planned to host at the Mirabelle . |