Example sentences of "he [verb] [art] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Another example of the rich and regal possibilities which religion offered Cnut is provided by a visit which he made to Glastonbury on 30 November of a year which may have been 1032 , when William of Malmesbury says that he laid a cloak decorated with peacocks on the tomb of Edmund Ironside . |
| 2 | He divided the errors collected into three categories : substitution errors ( where an incorrect lexical item is produced instead of the target ) ; loss errors ( where a speaker fails to produce any lexical item ) ; and addition errors ( where a speaker produces more lexical items than intended ) . |
| 3 | His son , a bachelor of twenty-five , became King Henry V , and he experienced a couple of attempts to usurp him during the first year , but by August 1415 he was able to sail with an invasion fleet of 1500 vessels to France , where he withstood an attack launched on 25th . |
| 4 | At Hanworth he met a girl named Hanna Reitsch.She had just been towed across the English Channel in a glider . |
| 5 | He drinks the tea brought to us by the koko gravely , and makes exasperated noises . |
| 6 | He got a bit flushed though . |
| 7 | But he got a bit carried away … |
| 8 | like Jimmy next door , he 's always dropping off and he got a vent put in at the bottom of his door , they took the pipe out and behind you had a big open |
| 9 | He got a lot taught a lot off granddad . |
| 10 | But he got a pattern made and had the base of the machine made at a local foundry and he made all the leverage parts and got the , he got the blades made in Sheffield or somewhere and er he made one for himself . |
| 11 | He knew he was behaving ludicrously and the sooner he got the wench locked up with a pack of nuns the better . |
| 12 | But he got a pattern made and had the base of the machine made at a local foundry and he made all the leverage parts and got the , he got the blades made in Sheffield or somewhere and er he made one for himself . |
| 13 | When he was 14 he read a book entitled ‘ Men 's Liberation ’ which dealt with aspects of sex segregation . |
| 14 | Among the many friends who came to wish her a happy birthday were , he read a piece written for Miss Laye by the Hon. |
| 15 | He read the letters interlaced with hearts ; he lit a cigarette , exhaled slowly , watching the smoke nudge across the roof until it found its way out into the sky through the circle in the roof like a full moon ; he lifted the door open , and looked across the olive grove . |
| 16 | His blue eyes looked suddenly brighter , sharper , as he read the name printed on the front of one of the letters . |
| 17 | ‘ He looks a bit dazed , ’ said Antony . |
| 18 | His chemist colleagues suggested he tried a substance called t-butyl hydroperoxide — an ‘ off the shelf ’ chemical reagent , whose ability to produce free radicals is well known to chemists . |
| 19 | Naturally he encountered no opposition based on nationalism , but his fervent support of Islam led him to abandon the tolerant policy his predecessors had adopted towards the Hindu majority , and this probably intensified resistance to his advance . |
| 20 | Geoffrey of Monmouth began the Hengist in Lincolnshire legend by stating that Hengist was granted land in Lindsey , in Lincolnshire , where he built a fortress called Thranceastre which was later associated with Castor . |
| 21 | He hooked the door shut with his foot , and walked away , spilling wrong notes behind him like a gardener sowing weeds . |
| 22 | At the latter , he found the building deserted except for two strikers on guard-duty . |
| 23 | When Captain Cook encountered the Maori he found the chiefs adorned with jade insignia . |
| 24 | He had expected her to be sitting in the little ticket office with her friend Maureen , but instead he found the office locked and in darkness and the entire frontage of the cinema deserted . |
| 25 | He found the force varied and changed polarity with the lunar cycle . |
| 26 | She had never heard the whole story , but apparently some of his ideas were considered a little too daring for the traditionalists in Tokyo , and he found the rug pulled from under him . |
| 27 | While sheriff of Hull in 1785 he headed a committee set up by the Hull Trinity House to found a navigation school , an establishment which celebrated its bicentenary in 1987 . |
| 28 | She celebrates the high life , he writes a column called Low Life . |
| 29 | He reviewed the changes made during his period as Soviet leader saying that " a totalitarian system which deprived the country of an opportunity to become wealthy and prosperous a long time ago has been liquidated " , and he expressed his hopes for the future : " Some mistakes could probably have been avoided , much been done better , but I am sure that sooner or later our shared efforts will achieve results . " |
| 30 | The crowd then start yelling at him to read it , so he cleverly pretends that he has no alternative left but to read it . |