Example sentences of "he [verb] [noun] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lord Denning said that it could be implied that the Minister had been given this power to enable him to revoke licences obtained illegally . |
| 2 | A letter from the Secretary of State had arrived withdrawing his approval for the closure in order to allow him to consider views brought to his attention by a Regional Councillor and by the local MP . |
| 3 | A relief to Léonie , not to have to observe him sitting knees crossed in the best armchair daintily sipping his apéritif , one hand going up to smooth his shining black hair . |
| 4 | He had been persuaded to have them there and it did n't please him to have journalists foisted off on him . |
| 5 | Even so , while being ahead of his time and younger than his age , the form of theatre he produced remains rooted in the past , owing infinitely more to Victorian and Edwardian styles than to the mainstream of 20th-century modernism . |
| 6 | These included the treeless spaces north and south of Brocklebeck ; he recommended places sheltered from the northern blast and with ‘ commanding prospects of that noble lake , ’ ‘ the hollow between Derwent Park and Castlehead , and the fields extending from Castlehead to Keswick . ’ |
| 7 | But he got things done , he was a weighty man to have in the village , no doubt of that . |
| 8 | Even Art finds himself overcome at times by incredulity or revulsion , especially in the section of this second volume , where he confronts problems posed by the first 's inordinate success in 1986 . |
| 9 | He tried tar made from the distillation of coal and in the distillation process became interested in the gas given off . |
| 10 | He symbolizes man liberated by reason from the fear of death , the optimist for whom all truth is rationally accessible and knowledge of the truth a panacea . |
| 11 | In Hilbert 's dictionary he found coypu defined as a South American aquatic rodent , myopotamus coypus , somewhat smaller than a beaver . |
| 12 | ‘ Somersetshire born ’ , but he bore arms associated with the Whitakers of Lancashire . |
| 13 | He has be- mused with some of his tactical ploys . |
| 14 | As far as the Shiite ulama were concerned any Shah ruling before the return of the hidden Imam does so unlawfully , unless he has ben licensed by the chief priests , the ayatollahs . |
| 15 | He has Policeman written all through his body . |
| 16 | ‘ And we are guarding the injured man in the William Harvey Hospital , Ashford , where he has pellets removed from his leg . |
| 17 | Describing the mechanism by which ideology works is the only way that we can be convinced by Althusser 's institutions since he has de fined them theoretically by their functions . |
| 18 | He has blood caked round his mouth , a blindfold over his eyes , and his shoulders are hunched . |
| 19 | If you 're paying rent , then it 's the landlord 's responsibility — make sure he has appliances serviced . |
| 20 | John Aiken , who wrote in 1797 , was also a doctor and he described apprentices brought in batches from distant workhouses to toil in " injurious " air by day and night . |
| 21 | He dismissed claims published in pamphlets that the King 's powers had been usurped , and said that " some members of the Council harboured secret ambitions for unbridled personal authority and power " and had wanted to elevate the King to the position of absolute monarch . |
| 22 | ( He says people smoked in secret before anyway ) |
| 23 | He asked me whether I was a country person I asked what the qualifications were he said country born and bred , well I was born in Liverpool spent my childhood and early adolescence in rural Nottinghamshire , moved to Highfields , emigrated to the West Indies and now live in sub rural Blavey so I do n't know whether I qualify as a country person or not , but I 'd like to bet that I 've milked more cows by hand than he has if that 's any qualification . |
| 24 | Every time he went abroad with the company he came back loaded up with western goods . |
| 25 | In support of this contention he quotes research done by Thorpe , who found in a study of long-term foster-children that only 27 per cent had contact with their parents every six months or more frequently and that over 60 per cent of natural parents did not know where their children were living , with only 21 per cent feeling encouraged by their social worker to maintain contact . |
| 26 | There were other things he added herbs sent to him from friends on the Plantations , and other , special things . |
| 27 | Souness , diverting publicity away from his side 's inept display , insisted he would quit football if more clubs adopted the tactics he claimed Palace used in Tuesday 's clash at Anfield , which finished 1-1 . |
| 28 | Since the Minister is so concerned about the gold belonging to the Baltic states , will he see justice done for the poorest country in Europe , Albania , whose gold is in the Bank of England and was stolen from that country four decades ago ? |
| 29 | He welcomed reforms proposed by the Financial Reporting Council and its satellites and supported moves to introduce a British version of the American-style management discussion and analysis in the annual report . |
| 30 | With a wave of his hand he ordered chairs brought for us , and tea . |