Example sentences of "he [vb past] [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | True to his belief in the efficacy of competition , he avoided building up an extensive chain of outlets , and preferred to thrive by vigorous marketing . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm not going in there , am I ? ! ’ he asked pointing nervously to the basket . |
| 3 | " Having fun ? " he asked looking down on her . |
| 4 | Who 's trying to swindle you this time ? ’ he asked smiling wryly — his job had made him cynical . |
| 5 | Most probably he got waffling on in the Royal Oak and that . |
| 6 | He admitted handling over four hundred pounds which had been stolen from a post office in Reading . |
| 7 | He tried setting up in Geneva and Canada before ending up in San Diego . |
| 8 | Then he tried smiling back at the serious-faced child , for this must surely be a tease . |
| 9 | He tried different approaches : he tried going out with John ; talking with him ; sitting with him ; even designing a game for him based on football which the student knew interested John . |
| 10 | But writing now was not easy for him : he had begun to suffer with arthritis in the year following his retirement , and had had to give up his violin owing to lack of flexibility of his fingers , and as the condition developed , he found writing more and more difficult . |
| 11 | As a boy , Zeng had taken to developing old negatives that he found lying around in his house , and an interest in actually taking photographs naturally followed . |
| 12 | He stopped trembling as quickly as he had begun a moment before and seemed to withdraw down the dark passage to the daydream he was locked in when they first arrived . |
| 13 | He stopped climbing only when he was too exhausted to climb any higher . |
| 14 | We 've got it ! ’ he shouted jumping up and down . |
| 15 | ‘ Teeny ! ’ he shouted standing up and knocking his packet of cigarettes and lighter on the floor . |
| 16 | It was the perfect mental massage , and when it was over he rose feeling slightly numb , but tingling and refreshed . |
| 17 | If he mentioned moving out of her parents ' house , she dissolved into tears . |
| 18 | He played standing up , with his feet and backside , and managed to sound dangerous . |
| 19 | ‘ I am not yet a total incompetent , ’ he muttered walking away . |
| 20 | In one of the most touching passages , he recalled coming up to America on his emigrant ship in 1955 , his father and brother and he standing by the rail , feeling this sense of opportunity , this relief that the bad times were over , that a new world was out there waiting to be conquered . |
| 21 | She glanced back just as she was about to turn a corner , and saw Joe as he came hurtling out of the side-exit . |
| 22 | I think Sam accidentally kicked Hannah , or kicked Hannah I do n't know I was n't there , but he came flying down , really got to curb that child he said , I said I beg your pardon , he said you 've got to curb that child kicking Hannah , I said if I 'd seen him kick her , he said that well I 'm not sure that he actually kicked her it might have been an accident |
| 23 | ‘ After a minute he came staggering out of the smoke . ’ |
| 24 | Tom opened the sitting-room door and the silence was broken by Sammy as he came bounding out , leaping up at the pair of them barking excitedly . |
| 25 | No that 's alright then and er I , I got into , I came , came back sort of when mother died , had to come back suddenly in the middle of the week and then erm I brought me family up as I say and , and my hubby he took , he took us Christmas shopping which is twenty one years ago this , this month the sixteenth my daughter-in-law and I and the little boy and that 's the little boy over there that 's now married , the one with the photograph , he took us shopping at Bishop 's Stortford cos we had n't any shops nothing here then , there was nothing when I first came here it was terrible and we went to Bishop 's Stortford and we came home in the , dinner time and I got erm , had our dinner and everything , had our meal , well we had soup and that was gon na cook at night , er you know , dinner at night so we had soup and that and erm he said I go down to the garage to put a tyre on my car , he came struggling back and within half an hour he was dead at fifty six years old that 's all he was , so I was left to bring up those that was n't married , I was left to bring up er the others you know , er I had the twins with me and Roy one of the boys and erm , er Brian the youngest one and I had to bring them up and I , after I , they , they all got married and I moved , before they got married I just got Brian with me the two twins got married , and I moved into my daughter-in-law 's house next door which was no two , seven , five the other side , I 'm sorry , two , seven , five and er I was in my house though three years that four bedroom and I could n't afford to keep you know big house like that going with just three , my , me and my son so we moved into her house and she had the end one which is still in now , we 'd done a swap and then cos er , er in the later years I was in there oh a long , long while and I loved it and I did n't wan na move but then I found , I was handicapped , I would n't get up the stairs to the toilet so I was moved into this bungalow you see and I had a friend living with me and he erm , he come here to live with me , came to lodge with me because he did n't want to go into Stevenage you see and er , after that erm , after that we , I had this bungalow and er I moved into this bungalow and er he moved in here with me and er everything happened when I got in this bungalow . |
| 26 | However , I made my position very clear to the Whaddon and Mitchley Argus sports hack , Mark Crowe , when he came sniffing round at the funeral . |
| 27 | If he came sniffing round , Davide was to take him off somewhere . |
| 28 | The four men looked up as he came scrambling down the steep bank . |
| 29 | He came shambling shyly out of his room , his black face almost coy in the embarrassing anticipation of being thanked . |
| 30 | He came strolling gently back , |