Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.

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1 He looks hard done by .
2 He looks hard done by .
3 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 .
4 Well , he has just flown about .
5 ‘ But this year he has just gone out and done the job .
6 He has just walked out into a spectacular summer storm .
7 Either he has just woken up or he has been grinding his face into his pillow .
8 When I quip that he sounds as if he has just come round from anaesthetic , Eva says , ‘ He has . ’
9 He has just come back from Canada and he will go back to Canada . ’
10 He jumps up from the day-bed on which he has just sat down .
11 Since the success of ‘ A Fish Called Wanda ’ , he has largely kept out of the public eye .
12 " 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 " .
13 He has even gone back to old techniques .
14 In fact , he has even carried out a number of burial-at-sea ceremonies with ashes scattered across the waves .
15 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 .
16 Since then he has steadily moved on and mostly up .
17 Which he has completely filled up
18 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 .
19 Last year , a couple of their events were not fully covered by sponsorship income and it is doubtful whether Mark McCormack will want to add to the £2million or so he has already poured in .
20 He has already ruled out the forcing of a by-election by the elevation of a senior Tory MP to the Lords .
21 He says he has already ruled out IBM Corp , and what makes the announcement intriguing is that the number of potential partners is so small .
22 ( In good humour he has already turned back to the mime : the two SPIES awaiting execution at the hands of the PLAYER ) Audiences know what to expect , and that is all that they are prepared to believe in .
23 He has already taken over 12 million paces and worn out six pairs of tough walking boots .
24 He has already put up the four corner posts .
25 He has already laid down a marker by setting the fastest time in history during pre-season testing at the oval track in Phoenix , Arizona , where the next round of the Indycar series will be held on 4 April .
26 In addition to his share of the £136,000 prize fund for his match with Timman , he has already picked up a share ( with Timman ) of around £500,000 from sponsorship by the manufacturers of the Mephisto Chess Computer .
27 He does feel sad about it , that is why he dressed in black , but he has already set out on what he believes to be his destiny , and so he wo n't allow these emotions to stop him .
28 He has also pointed out that the future did not loom so large for them as it did for the Roman historians , who were anxious about the fate of their empire .
29 He has also stumped up some of the cash ( together they contributed 30 per cent of the total package , the rest was provided by banks ) .
30 He has also taken up the case for a market-orientated reform , which has been started , but with far less vigour .
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