Example sentences of "he [verb] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He thinks the only good reason for enforcing statutes whose wisdom he doubts is to protect the legislature 's ability to coordinate social behaviour . |
| 2 | The kinds of errors he made are illustrated by these responses : |
| 3 | Almost any statement he made was punctuated with ‘ What do you think ? ’ or ‘ I 'd like your opinion on that . ’ |
| 4 | Every move he made was duplicated by the rest of the shoal at exactly the same speed and with absolute precision . |
| 5 | Reaction against him , in the predominantly Roman Catholic island , grew until , on 9 August 1846 , the quinta where he lived was surrounded and attacked by a large crowd of people . |
| 6 | He hates being called Matthew , his actual real name is Arthur Matthew , and if you put those initials down A M D , it sounds like a transport company . |
| 7 | All the other experience that he devoured was put to the one obsessing activity . |
| 8 | He had decreed everyone should wear tartan shoes and since no-one had any , or could get any being stuck on the island , every pupil he met was punished for breaking the law . |
| 9 | Even in the reference section at the end of the book the most he offers is to say that by studying the Buddha image we can learn more about Eastern art ‘ than if we read a good many surveys of these fields ’ . |
| 10 | The most famous teaming up of the two brothers was in 1973 , with the chart single Frankenstein , a testimony to Johnny 's ability to adapt to a variety of different styles , an ability , in fact , which he insists was born out of necessity … |
| 11 | Meanings he argued are created by differences . |
| 12 | Progress he argued was held back or deformed by the contradictions between the social relations of production and the forces of production . |
| 13 | What he expected was to see the Labour Government driven into an election either by its own dissensions or by the action of the Liberals , and its consequent replacement by a Conservative administration , obviously with himself at the head . |
| 14 | The predictions made by Johnson were tested by simulation studies , which showed that even for a 100 per cent packed file , if the discipline he recommended is adhered to , the average number of accesses can be kept down to 1.5 per retrieval , and for larger bucket sizes this is reduced to around 1.25 . |
| 15 | First , he is wrong to assume that the policy to which he refers is espoused only by the Government : until now , there has been a bipartisan commitment to ensuring that mentally ill people receive care and facilities that are properly attuned to their needs . |
| 16 | Mr. Atkinson 's letter suggests that the initial judicial view is the only view on tariff which he thinks is relied upon for fixing the date of the first review . |
| 17 | so that 's done some work on that , and there 's now four models for training , one is the , you know , on the job , evenings , training , there 's the weekend model of getting people together for the weekend , there 's the sort of summer school idea and the other one 's the one that Doug keeps reminding me about , which I keep forgetting about which is the distance learning one , er we , I think this is the one he thinks is running in Dundee , that maybe help with because the idea of developing a pack which is kind of trainer proof |
| 18 | I think the old man 's a bit afraid to go into hospital , I know that he 's afraid obviously cos of the , the , this open heart surgery sort of thing but er , he 's also afraid that , he thinks were gon na have er such outrageous parties down the close and were gon na be open all night and things like that . |
| 19 | The basic problem he encountered was getting across why his own complete immaterialism was not itself more overtly and explicitly sceptical than the standard view that there exist both material bodies and incorporeal minds or spirits . |
| 20 | There is a record of a severe lecture he delivered to Capuchin monks in Prague whom he found were living far more expansively than his own abstemious style would permit . |
| 21 | He fled and fled , and every door he found was painted with the black plague cross and every face he pleaded with was tinged with the red of plague fever . |
| 22 | Moreover , he noticed an electric lighting cable passing over the wall to an adjoining house , which he found was occupied by a senior official . |
| 23 | He was trusted , according to opinion polls , rather more in Western Europe than his American counterpart , and the regime he headed was seen as more seriously committed to peace and disarmament . |
| 24 | Most of the £406 million cash he owes was swindled from pension funds by his father before his mysterious death last year . |
| 25 | Today Honecker is in custody again and the tradition over which he presided is said to have run its course . |
| 26 | Nigel resented the attention that each and every author he reviewed was getting . |
| 27 | The empire he created was based around Bangkok Bank , South-East Asia 's largest , and included palm-oil plantations and hospitals among other things . |
| 28 | But the five-shot lead he created was trimmed to a manageable three shots for today 's third round which the English Ryder Cup man starts on a 13-under-par total of 131 . |
| 29 | The Giant Pope whom he encounters is turned into Giant Mahometan . |
| 30 | What I am trying to do is identify genetic potential long before the birth of the infant , and therefore long before he has been affected by his environment . |