Example sentences of "[pron] he [vb past] [verb] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cardiff was still one of the bastards who had put him away , not someone who had been duped by a fellow officer with false evidence , certainly not someone he had come to respect . |
| 2 | He 'd looked around that shabby dwelling and smelled the poverty which he had vowed to help alleviate in his dedicated youth , and to his shame he had thought only of escaping from the fleas he might have picked up from that terrible straw mattress . |
| 3 | Romantic he certainly was , but I feel there was a deeper layer of consciousness from which he had decided to take a calculated risk , fully believing he would survive . |
| 4 | The suggestion that Thomas 's race was a consideration in his nomination was highly embarrassing for Bush as it coincided with the president 's unrelenting opposition to a civil rights bill passed by Congress which he had pledged to veto on the grounds that it supported minority quotas . |
| 5 | He said there were items which he had wanted to buy but Mrs Knight did not want to sell and he did not take them away . |
| 6 | ‘ Sheisse , ’ he added explosively as if he had at last allowed himself to be convinced of something which he had wanted to believe for a long time . |
| 7 | In later life Dicey therefore felt that developments in society and politics were threatening the idea of the British constitution which he had sought to formulate in 1885 . |
| 8 | As it was , an irrelevant image kept popping up in the comer of his eye , dragging his attention away : the image of an old man Iying slumped in the mud against a wall of concrete blocks , turned away , as though death were an act as shameful as intercourse or defecation , which he had sought to conceal as far as possible , even in the bleakly exposed place where it had come to him . |
| 9 | It was this , his wife had said , which he had intended to gas her with , using the fumes from the car 's exhaust . |
| 10 | Accordingly the driver was prosecuted for an offence of driving with excess alcohol in the breath under section 5 and the prosecution relied on the specimen of breath which he had given to establish the offence . |
| 11 | And he returned again to the article which symbolised so much , on which he had begun to pin all his hopes . |
| 12 | He had been advised that ethics legislation prevented him from combining the RNC job with outside interests which he had planned to pursue , including consultancy work and the fulfilment of a lucrative book contract . |
| 13 | Jacques Chirac was unanimously re-elected unopposed as the RPR 's leader but only narrowly won the support of two-thirds of the congress for the official party motion , without which he had threatened to resign . |
| 14 | Mr Serrano was told by the electoral authorities that he would not be able to hold either a plebiscite or elections for a new Congress , which he had hoped to do . |
| 15 | This was the nature of the challenge to which he had had to rise . |
| 16 | Prior to this Minton had not been altogether convinced by Freud 's painting , which he had tended to regard as cranky and a bit naïive . |
| 17 | Had he known that the sinecure into which he had expected to step was but a chimera , he would have opted for staying in the army which had , in fact , suited him . |
| 18 | While Dick Piper was hard pushed to find the five shillings he had borrowed from Harry Pierpoint , the father of the princess who was to become Queen Mary was jibbing at paying tradesmen 's bills which he had allowed to grow to around £20,000 . |
| 19 | Undeterred by this ill omen , he set forth , intending to win not only fame and fortune but lands as well , which he had agreed to share equally with Philip . |
| 20 | The trouble was that it did not necessarily sell well so that in some cases , such as that of the Burgundian lord , Guillaume de Châteauvillain , both he and his family , who acted as guarantors for the payment of 20,000 saluts which he had agreed to pay when captured by the French in 1430 , faced financial ruin . |
| 21 | He 'd been on a management course from which he had returned to speak of God as ‘ the perfect chairman of our meetings . ’ |
| 22 | Biya did not alter his position on the holding of a national conference , a central demand of the opposition , which he had refused to countenance . |
| 23 | It recommended the adoption of the procedure asked for in the Institute 's Memorial , which he had helped to organize , and the substitution of moderate passages , in place of his forthright statements , only tended to give the Report the appearance of a more impartial document . |
| 24 | Anselm fought for it with a tenacity which is only explicable if the whole scene which we have briefly surveyed is borne in mind : the primacy was the brightest of the dreams which the monks of Canterbury had inherited from their largely silent , ever-beckoning past , and on this question Anselm fell under the spell of the awe-inspiring tradition which he had helped to preserve . |
| 25 | Of course , when the time came , Doyle became a victim of an attitude which he had helped to foster . |
| 26 | By this time he played little active part in the business , devoting his attention to the management of the Belfast Ropeworks , which he had helped to found in 1872–3 with W. H. Smiles , the son of Samuel Smiles [ q.v . ] . |
| 27 | He had never been a happy sightseer and until his work was done , until Harry Lawrence 's killer was identified and caught he could n't see himself playing the tourist at the Changing of the Guard , or the Tower of London , even Poets ' Corner which he had longed to see , as a passionate student of English poetry … that would have to wait . |
| 28 | Where the settlor is himself insolvent , the trust is invalid , and creditors can execute against all the settlor 's property including that over which he had purported to set up a trust . |
| 29 | He noted that the government commission which he had established to investigate the Parys affair had paid more attention to this than the commission later appointed at Walesa 's request [ see p. 38881 ] . |
| 30 | Tony appeared to recognize a link between the two situations , which he had failed to appreciate until then . |