Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pos pn] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made his feelings known to his team who threw away a 2–0 lead to crash to their heaviest home defeat of a troubled season . |
| 2 | He made his gripe known to one of his superiors and the decision was changed , but only after he had , in his own words , ‘ kicked up a fuss ’ . |
| 3 | TWO-year-old Adam Rippon was freed by firemen after he got his head caught in the garden gate . |
| 4 | He saw a bobby in trouble at Old Swan , got off the tram-car to help him , and he got his mac torn . |
| 5 | Unfortunately one day when it was earlier on he , he got his commands mixed up and we was m marching down the yard and the drive , and we was marching towards the factory up and down and right wheel and about turn , left wheel , basic foot drill you know it had been going for about ten minutes and all and we was going down towards the factory and erm we kept on going , we was getting close to the factory and he , he he forgot his words forgot what er command he wanted to give and he shouted stop you 'll be in the bloody factory in a minute instead of sa shouting halt , you know , he , he got flummoxed . |
| 6 | However , he finally got his comeuppance during the chilly winter of 1975 , when he got his penis stuck in a milk bottle while masturbating behind a hedge during a games lesson . |
| 7 | POOL player Stuart Townsley had to be rescued by firemen — after he got his arm stuck down a pocket . |
| 8 | He got his car stolen . |
| 9 | He got his car stolen . |
| 10 | ‘ Yes , he got his face mixed up with the spokes of — |
| 11 | As the little piggy said , when he built his house made out of bricks . |
| 12 | Unwillingly , he found his gaze dragged to Madra . |
| 13 | He found his foot stuck in a branch and he bent to free himself . |
| 14 | Later , exiled in France , he found his models hailed as ‘ major indictments of Stalinism ’ , when what he had written , he maintained , were love stories and chronicles of the human soul . |
| 15 | Lancaster moved towards the Loire in August , but he found his advance blocked by the French , who destroyed the bridge at Angers . |
| 16 | But all the time he found his eyes fixed to the rear mirror , looking for a sign of pursuit . |
| 17 | One is that he led a wretched existence since MacQuillan took over and that he lost his temper when he found his office taken over by someone else . |
| 18 | He unlocked the relevant locker and removed the pale-blue Adidas holdall ; but when he turned away he found his path blocked by an attractive teenager in scruffy jeans and a baggy floral T-shirt . |
| 19 | He twisted his head left and right before looking anxiously at Rebecque . |
| 20 | Sitting at peace with his ailing woman , tenderly responsive , he imagined his mouth curved in a mysterious smile ‘ like that of Rembrandt himself in his self-portrait in which Saskia is sitting on his knee and he has a glass of wine in his hand . ’ |
| 21 | He returned my letter spattered with his own blood , and a reply . |
| 22 | I thought if he heard her nonsense directed at someone else he would get back a sense of proportion about it . |
| 23 | Patrick was climbing up there when he heard his name called . |
| 24 | But to the sounds of utter silence from the European section of the Augusta press room , he hit his tee shot at the short 12th into the water , took five and by the 15th had given up his lead . |
| 25 | He saw her back clothed in the flannelette nightdress . |
| 26 | A few minutes later , he saw his classmate stretched on the ground , hands crossed on his chest ‘ like two white flecks on his blue overcoat ’ . |
| 27 | And as he was about to depart he looked back upon his own home , and when he saw his hall deserted , the household chests unfastened , the doors open , no cloaks hanging up , no seats in the porch , no hawks upon the perches , the tears came into his eyes , and he said , My enemies have done this … |
| 28 | After three minutes , Byrne glanced the ball narrowly wide and two minutes later he saw his header cleared off the line by Stockwell . |
| 29 | The water splashed heavily against the glass , and rising to fumble for a towel , he saw his face distorted , the mouth hanging , the heavily-lidded eyes half hidden by glistening weeds of black hair like the surfacing visage of a drowned man . |
| 30 | We shall assume that the syntactic positions for adjectives in English are as below ; we give first the intensional pattern of which each is the surface exponent , as well as an example for each , and also an instance which is ungrammatical and where we shall later be able to suggest reasons for the ungrammaticality ; in each case we shall underline in the intensional pattern the property which is instantiated by the adjective , merely for clarification and not as an integral part of the notation : [ P E ] prenominal attributive position surface syntactic sequence : adjective + noun as in hungry passengers ; but note that *asleep kittens is ungrammatical { [ E ] ( P ) } ordinary predicative position surface syntactic sequence : noun phrase + be + adjective as in the critics were upset ; but note that her husband was mere is ungrammatical [ E P ] postnominal attributive position surface syntactic sequence : noun phrase + adjective as in the crimes alleged ; but note that the road wide is ungrammatical ( ( P E ) P ) predicate qualifying position surface syntactic sequence : verb phrase + noun phrase + adjective as in he brought his gun loaded ; but note that she uses her mixer lightweight is ungrammatical [ E ( P P ) ] postverbal position surface syntactic sequence : verb phrase + adjective as in the crowd remained angry ; but note that his brother resisted obstinate is ungrammatical ( ( P P ) E ) adverbal position surface syntactic sequence ( usually ) : verb + noun phrase + adjective as in Ali rubbed the lamp clean ; but note that Mark resembles the officer sinister is ungrammatical ( P { E P } ) clausal position = surface syntactic sequence : verb + noun phrase ( + be ) + adjective as in he considers the prosecution case hopeless but note that Sue reported the prizes aplenty is ungrammatical { E P } P extraclausal position surface syntactic sequence ( usually ) : adjective + clause as in furious , the king ordered many arrests but note that furious , the king had three wives is ungrammatical As we have said , these are the adjectival positions of English ( and possibly of any natural human language ) . |