Example sentences of "he [vb past] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman once wrote to me , desperately upset , because , while going through her dead husband 's effects , she 'd found love letters he 'd written to another woman . |
| 2 | and what he 'd done to this pillow was no one 's business . |
| 3 | Once or twice he 'd gone to great lengths to deceive me but , more often , he 'd taken little trouble to cover his tracks . |
| 4 | Once again she felt a rush of warmth for Josh ; clearly he 'd gone to some lengths to cover up for her , and for that she 'd be eternally grateful . |
| 5 | Police charged Lashley after he 'd confessed to fellow inmates in prison while he was serving 18 years for rape . |
| 6 | He 'd returned to flying duties gradually , working as an instructor , not directly involved in any action . |
| 7 | The best years of his mind he 'd sacrificed to this godforsaken place and precious little did he have to show for it . |
| 8 | He seemed resigned to this twist of fate that the first calf to be born into his stable for two years had been brought to life before it was ready , before the winter was even through . |
| 9 | Paul Bedworth , 19 , allegedly found a way to pay for the thousands of hours he spent connected to transatlantic computer networks . |
| 10 | By the end of the year he had converted to twin-engined fighters , joining 252 Squadron to fly Blenheim IVFs and Beaufighters . |
| 11 | When an army investigator went to interview Ronald Haeberle , the army photographer who had been with Charlie Company , Haeberle produced some horrific colour slides of the killings and said that he had included some of them in an illustrated talk about the war he had given to various clubs , teachers ' associations and youth groups . |
| 12 | Yes , that was the card he had given to old Jackdaw to post but he really did n't want all this aggravation , he was happy the way he was . |
| 13 | By the time the news reached Lyons , Anselm would have been Hugh 's guest for about six months , and the letter which he wrote to the new pope shows a remarkable advance on the letter he had written to Urban II two years earlier . |
| 14 | Only three days earlier , however , he had written to another correspondent in less drastic tones : " give me a few more years and you should sense a new influence on classical studies " . |
| 15 | Commenting on Mr Hutchison 's decision Professor Raymond Miquel the Council Chairman said they would be sorry to see him go and paid tribute to the contribution he had made to Scottish sport over the past 26 years . |
| 16 | In the back of the taxi he snuffled contentedly at some ( he thought ) particularly witty riposte he had made to some piece of boyish impertinence from 3B in the final period of the day . |
| 17 | One nineteenth century account of him reads : ‘ Strong minded but very illiterate … he made all his calculations by the strength of his memory , and was equally at a loss to explain what he had conceived to any other person , and from being lowly educated he had no means of conveying to paper his designs , yet would cast up the most intricate accounts in his head without difficulty or error . ’ |
| 18 | Since then he had succumbed to sporadic drinking binges . |
| 19 | His representative told a London tribunal it was now clear he had consented to medical retirement . |
| 20 | Although an Exeter weaver could still make 9s ( 45p ) a week in 1750 , a level still persisting in nearby Taunton in 1764 , by 1787 he had fallen to 8s ( 40p ) and to 7s ( 35p ) by 1791 . |
| 21 | He had gone to great trouble to ascertain ways in which my knowledge of Italy and especially Libya might be put to use : As I was once again unemployed and earning no money , I needed to obtain some work . |
| 22 | So he had gone to that other place where , so Mrs Parvis said , red and orange fires burned day and night , so hot that glass and brick and even solid rock melted to liquid . |
| 23 | But presumably he must have taken a shine , as the expression went , to Celia , particularly as he had gone to such trouble to seek her out and visit her at the Meadhaven Clinic . |
| 24 | Ellen 's father , Jack , had greeted his daughter with the testily expressed hope that she had not left the safe position at the royal castle that he had gone to considerable trouble to obtain for her . |
| 25 | If only he had acceded to that suggestion of hers ! |
| 26 | When we got him out and he felt refreshed and better about it , he also felt worse because he realized the harm he had done to other youngster and he set about , therefore , trying to help other parents rescue their youngsters out of it . |
| 27 | He had taken to employing Jews and whores , after all . |
| 28 | When at last he dared to creep from his hiding-place and move on tip-toe up the dark stairs , he had counted to 372 and managed to convince himself that any fate was preferable to having an accident down there amongst the coats . |
| 29 | He had proposed to six other nurses , but been rejected . |
| 30 | He made me a desk with a roll-top and secret drawers and a matching leather stool ; a huge Tudor doll 's house with leaded windows and roses round the door , filled with hand-carved furniture ; a bow-windowed shop with a sign saying ‘ Lynne 's Store ’ and shelves stocked with dozens of tiny tins of Heinz products — it had taken him a year to cut out all the miniature Heinz logos from magazine adverts , which he had stuck to one-inch lengths of silver-painted dowelling . |