Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb pp] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ALAN Hickman from Derbyshire became worried about the advice he was receiving over his pension transfer when he realised that each expert he consulted recommended a different course of action . |
| 2 | To the BBC SSO , whom he holds in great affection — he first came to Scotland in 1988 for their Festival of New Chinese Music — he has gifted a new work , Death and the Fire : a dialogue with Paul Klee , to be premiered on 27 March . |
| 3 | During his time away , he has visited a potash mine , two dairy farms and attended a rodeo , as well as becoming an expert on 4H country fairs . |
| 4 | He has caused a storm with his claim that their bowlers ‘ scuffed up the ball ’ during the final Test at The Oval two years ago . |
| 5 | As Ashton and MacMillan in many of their ballets , he has created a style appropriate to one particular ballet . |
| 6 | Although he is a newcomer to sailing and the America 's Cup , he has created a huge syndicate of 200 people and spent a staggering £1.4 million per month on his camapign for the past year-and-a-half . |
| 7 | In the first , he dug scallop-shaped beds housing 250 herbaceous plants to give a cottagey look and , in the second , he has created a mini-woodland with a bark path and a miniature pond surrounded by peat blocks for a natural effect . |
| 8 | He has created a gap downwind into which he can accelerate to start at speed , whilst those around him will still be sheeting in . |
| 9 | Shrewd , quietly spoken and a model of impeccable sportsmanship for young and not — so-young alike , he has created a chemistry which has made Haslemere 4th XI one of the most popular sides with its opponents and the happiest with itself . |
| 10 | At Jay Gorney from 10 to 31 October , he has created a room full of furniture-sculpture complete with wallpaper and frieze-like shelving . |
| 11 | Why does a barrow boy selling bunched radishes and salad greens in the market at Chinon know by instinct so to arrange his produce that he has created a little spectacle as fresh and gay as a Dufy painting , and you are at once convinced that unless you taste some of his radishes you will be missing an experience which seems of more urgency than a visit to the Chateau of Chinon ? |
| 12 | The artist has achieved more than that though ; he has created a real group . |
| 13 | Since then he has created a garden few of us would aspire to after a lifetime of gardening . |
| 14 | It was more like a personal appearance by a pop star … just a glimpse of Desert Orchid was enough to draw the crowds and set the cameras clicking.But after all , this was the horse with his own fanclub.And he has created a few records.Between 1983 and 1991 Dezi won 34 steeplechases , picking up half a million pounds in prize money into the bargain.Now he 's retired … and enjoying the fame : |
| 15 | A groundswell of media opinion is pushing for Gavin Hastings as captain and his off-the-field credentials — particularly the manner in which he has created a happy spirit in the Scottish camp — give him a head start over England 's Will Carling . |
| 16 | For one he has created an office , for another a library and for a third a single piece of furniture . |
| 17 | Does the hon. Gentleman believe that when he has created an independent Scottish state it will have a separate currency , or would he go for the ecu ? |
| 18 | A shy man from a conservative Catholic family ( his father , ex-President Antonio Segni , belonged to the right wing of the Christian Democrats ) , he has rallied a wide range of supporters to his reform campaign : free-thinking radicals , communists , a Catholic bishop , trade unionists , the influential Rome daily La Repubblica and the top ranks of Confindustria , Italy 's employers ' association , as well as Mr Orlando himself . |
| 19 | Mr Chance has written a book based on the many talks he has given , papers he has written and conferences he has attended a record of his years working with the mentally handicapped . |
| 20 | It 's a debate Howe understandably does does not want to enter into but he has noticed a similarity between the current team and the Arsenal side he coached to the Double 21 years ago — coincidentally , the same season the Blues won their last major honour , the Cup Winners ' Cup . |
| 21 | But , given the low base from which the Liberal Democrat party began its struggle for recognition , he has achieved a great deal . |
| 22 | Sangster agrees that there were some worrying times but points out that worldwide he has achieved a century of winners for each of the past 10 years . |
| 23 | In Germany a child proceeds to the next year only when he has achieved a satisfactory standard in every subject of the curriculum . |
| 24 | It is now not easy to talk to Bill Larnach for very long before becoming aware of the depth of his knowledge and the way in which , following the traditions of his birthplace , he has achieved a mastery of this very difficult subject . |
| 25 | This Figaro is the first time he has tackled an opera written by someone other than himself . |
| 26 | Insiders say he has transplanted a large tract of greenery into the leaderene 's speech , which will dwell on her commitment to saving the world from global warming . |
| 27 | As England 's leading batsman of the 1980s he has borne a heavy responsibility and perhaps because of this has never completely fulfilled his potential ; few batsmen can have been blessed with so much natural ability , yet he often looks vulnerable until he has settled down and even then has succumbed countless times to an infuriating nibble or waft outside the off stump . |
| 28 | Laszlo Polgar … he has constructed a shrine to chess and a laboratory for his obsessive theories of genius rearing PHOTOGRAPHS : TAMAS REVESZ Judit … inspirational Zsofia … experimenting Zsuzsa … watchful |
| 29 | Lilly believes that humans and dolphins can communicate with each other despite their physical differences , and he has constructed a complex computer system to send translated messages between human and dolphin . |
| 30 | He has constructed a model of the route in the Stalybridge workshop of climbing wall manufacturers Bendcrete , for whom he now works . |