Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the patient has poor balance , he sits well supported on the plinth , with his feet flat on the floor . |
| 2 | He became increasingly attached to an almost Greek sense of the hero , but recast in a mould similar to Nietzsche 's superman . |
| 3 | He became increasingly frustrated by his inability to preserve food , especially dairy products , during hot summer months . |
| 4 | Medina trained as a merchant in Amsterdam , moved to London in 1670 , and from 1672 until 1677 lived in Great St Helens , where he became well established as a merchant . |
| 5 | He taught initially at a junior school in Berkshire , then at a grammar school , and later at Downe House , where he became well known on the art-teaching circuit when his pupils won ( for two consecutive years ) a national art competition and their work toured internationally . |
| 6 | He became well known as a music festival adjudicator , working in Canada every alternate year between 1924 and 1938 , and he took the Glasgow Orpheus Choir on tours to Canada , the USA , and half a dozen European countries . |
| 7 | He became highly acclaimed amongst the Irish-American community for his so-called ‘ Morrison visas ’ . |
| 8 | I believe he became dangerously fascinated by the idea of having one sex merge into the other . ’ |
| 9 | As she became more sexually active — to him , frighteningly so — he became seriously disturbed about whether he could keep up with her . |
| 10 | Entering New College as an undergraduate in October 1880 , he became deeply stirred by the social and imperialist ideas current in Oxford at the time . |
| 11 | June and Robert Braithwaite achieved much better intercourse both in and out of bed when she learned to understand and value his greater need of physical sensation and he became less worried by her being different and placing a lower value on physical experience . |
| 12 | Thereafter he became better known as a forensic scientist achieving such professional distinctions as presidency of the Medico-Legal Society and of the Forensic Science Society ( of which Grant was a founder member and secretary ) . |
| 13 | Later that night he became so engrossed in his studies he completely forgot about it . |
| 14 | He became so identified with us that he was the perfect penitent and made the perfect confession to the Father for us . |
| 15 | Although his initial interest had been aroused because of the connection between current problems and events which may have taken place in a former life , he became so enthralled by the topic that he took it up for its own sake . |
| 16 | In attempting to return to Afghanistan in 1840 , he became accidentally embroiled in the Baluchistan revolt and was imprisoned by the British authorities without either charge or good reason ( described in Narrative of a Journey to Kalat , 1842 ) . |
| 17 | no need for painkillers he was that surprised , he was that surprised the way , of the way he did it , he got brutally treated with |
| 18 | The reading of my Botanick Essays and the Experiments he has successfully made in pursuance of what I have advanced there has created in him an earnestness to correspond with me . |
| 19 | Professor Sharp , of the Memorial University of Newfoundland , writes that he has just run across the earwig after having acquired five years ' back numbers of this magazine and to say that the Anglo-Saxons had a word for it , as we are all too well aware from listening to conversations between small children . |
| 20 | He has just emerged from the studio after recording his third album ; there will be many musical surprises in store . |
| 21 | He has just emerged from four months of experimental treatment for skin cancer with assurances of remission . |
| 22 | Milton can not lift Satan to such great heights and put such great speeches in his mouth and then snatch them back denying in his authorial intrusions what he has just proclaimed through his character . |
| 23 | An angler removes a fish he has just landed at Old Windsor . |
| 24 | It 's a route he has just retraced for the character of Fergus , the IRA man who attempts to re-make his life in The Crying Game ] , an experience Jordan understands well . |
| 25 | He has just gone into the first-class departure lounge for flight 205 to Miami , Florida . ’ |
| 26 | I thank my right hon. Friend for what he has just said about the vile allegations and lies against my hon. and learned Friend — I use both words advisedly — the Member for Leicester , West ( Mr. Janner ) . |
| 27 | It is important that I should ask the hon. Gentleman carefully to consider what he has just said about my right hon. and learned Friend the Attorney-General , who set out the legal position as a Law Officer . |
| 28 | Centre : Brutus holds a red colobus he has just caught with the help of several other members of the group . |
| 29 | Particularly when he has just returned from a period of injury . |
| 30 | I believe that he has just returned from his second visit to Nepal — a country with which this country has had good relations for about 175 years . |