Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A visitor who heard him speak long remembered how the feeling of the meeting rose towards him when he got on his legs . |
| 2 | The assistant putting that bib on him had foolishly come too close . |
| 3 | No king before him had ever assumed so complete a spiritual leadership of the English church . |
| 4 | Vale built up his reputation as a ‘ low comedian ’ in the provinces , playing mostly in farces and adaptations , among them the musical comedy , The Boarding House , or Five Hours at Brighton , by Samuel Beazley [ q.v. ] , in which he played the comic militiaman Simon Spatterdash , a propounder of curious comparisons , a role with which he became completely identified off-stage , so that his fame spread far and wide . |
| 5 | He became quite carried away as with dexterous strokes he carved a particularly exquisite right breast and set to work on the delicate fluting of the ribs . |
| 6 | because they scan on ultra violet light and as one our P C's found out to his cost , he ruined a hundred and fifty pounds worth of compact disc cos he got rather carried away with and of course , it ca n't be cleaned off ! |
| 7 | He got so fed up with it that he even tried a salmon shepherd 's pie to make it more interesting . |
| 8 | The four-year-old has always been highly strung and Hiner added : ‘ He got so worked up that the French vets could n't examine him . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ He got so worked up he had to ask to use the toilet . |
| 10 | I derived a great deal of amusement out of this because he got so carried away , huffing and puffing , and once he unleashed a mighty kick with ‘ Take that , you bastard ’ , sadly forgetting that he was still chained at the time . |
| 11 | He looks hard done by . |
| 12 | He looks hard done by . |
| 13 | In particular circumstances a director may owe a duty directly to shareholders ; that duty will not derive from his status as a director but from particular responsibilities he has voluntarily taken on . |
| 14 | Well , he has just flown about . |
| 15 | ‘ But this year he has just gone out and done the job . |
| 16 | He has just walked out into a spectacular summer storm . |
| 17 | Either he has just woken up or he has been grinding his face into his pillow . |
| 18 | When I quip that he sounds as if he has just come round from anaesthetic , Eva says , ‘ He has . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ He has just come back from Canada and he will go back to Canada . ’ |
| 20 | He jumps up from the day-bed on which he has just sat down . |
| 21 | Since the success of ‘ A Fish Called Wanda ’ , he has largely kept out of the public eye . |
| 22 | " I have been connected with different unions for this last twenty years " , he declared to the Royal Commission on Labour in 1892 , " but I am sorry to state that they have been formed for the benefit of one man , for he has generally cleared out with the funds " . |
| 23 | He has even gone back to old techniques . |
| 24 | He has even looked benignly bored in the final days of preparation ; he has no need , other than to satisfy the boxing historians , to climb into the ring again . |
| 25 | In fact , he has even carried out a number of burial-at-sea ceremonies with ashes scattered across the waves . |
| 26 | A description by an ancillary of the abilities of the school 's stencil cutter or Caramate slide-tape presenter can be the key to innovation , because the teacher suddenly recognizes what is possible , as distinct from a lot of theory whose implementation he has previously understood imperfectly if at all . |
| 27 | Anthony Summers specialises in works of investigation , with the assassination of John F Kennedy , the life and death of Marilyn Monroe and the Profumo scandal among the subjects he has previously taken on . |
| 28 | Since then he has steadily moved on and mostly up . |
| 29 | Which he has completely filled up |
| 30 | He has since gone on as librarian and as professor of art history to write standard books on eleventh-century illumination in Normandy , Flemish illumination in the 1480s , Italian illumination of the Renaissance , insular illumination from the sixth century , English illumination of the thirteenth century , and many other far-ranging studies and catalogues and exhibitions . |