Example sentences of "he [vb past] [to-vb] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At an OEEC Council meeting , Harold Macmillan , then Chancellor of the Exchequer , is reputed to have said that he had become aware of some archaeological excavations at Messina about which he expected to hear no more . |
| 2 | He failed to make a wholly satisfactory career . |
| 3 | He rose to become the most capped goal keeper in the history of Scottish football and was chosen to represent Scotland in three consecutive World Cup Finals . |
| 4 | Having worked his way through the Spartan mill of St. Cyr , he opted to join the newly formed Chasseurs Alpins . |
| 5 | He seemed to lose a little of his clumsiness when he was beside her . |
| 6 | Gooch recalled playing against Waqar at Chelmsford : ‘ The first impression was that he seemed to have a very long run-up but he is obviously a very fine fast bowler with the ability to swing , particularly the old ball . ’ |
| 7 | In his Sacrae cantiones of 1573 Joachim a Burck ( 1646–1610 ) had employed chromaticism and the other devices of musica reservata to underline the sense of the Biblical texts , but when he began to set the very personal religious verse of Ludwig Helmbold — Latin odes and German Liedlein — the relationship between text and music became much closer , even madrigalian , and he himself claimed he had provided the 40 deutsche christl . |
| 8 | He enjoyed these very much , and eventually he began to appreciate the more doctrinal portions of the Bible as well . |
| 9 | From the late 1730s he began to develop a more ambitious career in cartography . |
| 10 | He ate a little and drank more of the rum , then he began to look a little better . |
| 11 | He struggled to match the already competent Dave Fielding , but was soon applying himself to pecuniary areas . |
| 12 | He would live for ever with the torchlight glimpse of a wide-eyed corpse dribbling blood from a broken neck and see Miss Tuckey 's eyes above the gag that smelled of vomit and was stained with more blood from he had to realise a deliberately bitten tongue … |
| 13 | He was at Ibrox in 1971 when 66 fans died in a crush on the steps of the stadium ; in September 1980 , he had to watch the pathetically outmatched Welsh bantam-weight Johnny Owen die at the hands of Lupe Pintor , after writing beforehand ‘ this fight could end up in the intensive care unit ’ ; and he saw the heart-bursting tension of a World Cup qualifying match kill the man with whom he had an almost filial relationship , the Celtic and Scottish national football manager , Jock Stein . |
| 14 | And as he climbed into the car and started the chilled engine , he had to make a very strong effort indeed to close the door on the compartment of his mind where Marjorie belonged and open wide the door to careful logical thinking about the project and this newest complication . |
| 15 | Here was a student who overworked for more than a year and needed rest ; who was already in an emotional condition by the recognition of the highest ideals and their obligation upon him ; and then , instead of the rest which he needed , he had to endure the utterly unexpected death , in very distressing family conditions , of the person in the world to whom he felt nearest . |
| 16 | His own aim was to return to the message of the Bible via the teaching of the Reformers , and on that basis he wished to outline a very different conception of the nature of Christian faith and life . |
| 17 | He continued to take a very active interest in its affairs , and he was also a member of the Institutions of Mechanical Engineers and Naval Architects and of the London Chamber of Commerce . |
| 18 | In yet another shop , a lad told me that he hoped to obtain a more powerful model in about a month but he did n't have any literature I could look at . |
| 19 | His major criticism of Murder in the Cathedral had been that it contained too much obvious " poetry " , and in the new play he wanted to create a more flexible and less ostensible verse line which could handle demotic or rarefied material equally well . |
| 20 | He wanted to find a readily available synthetic polymer that could do the job . |
| 21 | She could see her grandfather was keeping his hands to himself , standing quiet and still , as if he wanted to make the least contact possible with the room . |
| 22 | After the lesson he told me that he wanted to buy a really good shirt he 'd seen somewhere , and I enquired into the resale potential of the item with a view to recovering my outlay in case of bankruptcy , which amused him further ; and then I gave him my terms . |
| 23 | The last act had been unsatisfactory and he wanted to provide a more effective resolution ; he was also concerned that he might have gone too far in removing the " poetry " from his dramatic verse . |
| 24 | This was admittedly an exaggeration , but he wanted to emphasize the potentially disruptive effect of Robyn Penrose 's presence . |
| 25 | True , he attempted to look a little more learned by wearing silver-rimmed spectacles that were dwarfed by his large face but were , he thought , all the more pedagoguish because they did n't flatter . |
| 26 | A.C.G. Hastings was reprimanded by High Commissioner Girouard for using military means to effect the subjugation of the cannibal Tula tribe ; to redeem himself he volunteered to subdue the equally unruly Awok without firing a shot , and did so — by reminding them of the fate of the Tulas and giving them two hours to surrender their weapons . |
| 27 | Then he stayed to hear no more . |