Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the planners he hates watched unscathed as he mistakenly attacked the housing department 50 yards away . |
| 2 | None of the items he checked affected the probe — though he gave the chess set a suspicious glance — until he moved to the wall hangings . |
| 3 | Would he 've had time to take it home in between stealing it and me finding him ? |
| 4 | Once , when umpire Leeman gave the German a second serving chance because of unfair din after he doubled faulted , several minutes elapsed before play could resume . |
| 5 | He thought that fascism was played out in England and that the IFL should merge into a new organization that he planned called the ‘ National Union of British Workmen ’ . |
| 6 | Hume 's moral philosophy is mainly a development , on an effectively non-theistic basis , of Hutcheson 's and Hutcheson had already advocated a kind of utilitarianism , for in identifying moral goodness with benevolence , he had seen the goodness of a man as essentially the amount of happiness he produced divided by his opportunities . |
| 7 | ALAN Hickman from Derbyshire became worried about the advice he was receiving over his pension transfer when he realised that each expert he consulted recommended a different course of action . |
| 8 | For example , Peter Matthiessen 's account of his astonishing journey on foot , with limited supplies in the face of overwhelming winter snows , from Nepal to the Crystal Mountain in Tibet where he goes fired with the hope of seeing the rare , almost mythical , snow leopard , expresses a pattern of experience that is at the heart of the awareness of the medieval mystics with whom this book is concerned . |
| 9 | The opposition leaders he met agreed that the question of reunification of Germany was not one for the German people alone , but was the rightful concern of their European neighbours . |
| 10 | He sits wreathed in smoke , taking my confession like a Catholic priest . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , Irwin appears to have reconciled the two to his own satisfaction , though the arguments to which he resorted owed more to the theological aptitude displayed in his youthful biography of Keble than to ordinary practical intelligence . |
| 12 | The local authority to which he applied refused to provide the necessary grant , and the person was sadly compelled to turn down a place on a one-year post-graduate course which had already been offered to him . |
| 13 | And then he became irritated by Lineker 's ‘ goody two-shoes ’ image , because he felt it was not necessarily justified . |
| 14 | However , when subsequently he became employed solely by an audit firm established in Germany , and thus ceased to fulfil the conditions described above , his authorisation to practise in Luxembourg was cancelled . |
| 15 | With Jenny Blyth nowhere to be found — vindictive press reports claiming that the marriage of the decade was on the rocks — he became embroiled in an unseemly dispute with his own club . |
| 16 | If he was a difficult friend , he could also be a loyal one — the most notable example , of course , is that of Ezra Pound whom he continued to support and defend even though it meant that he became embroiled in the kind of public controversy which he detested . |
| 17 | In the town of Newton Stewart , not too far from Annan , a solicitor , Giles Davies , lost £1.8 million from his clients ' accounts because he became embroiled in a similar deal . |
| 18 | He became absorbed in the task , grumbling at the stiffness of the holding screws . |
| 19 | Grainne , listening , watching , saw how his eyes darkened when he became absorbed in something , and how the planes of his face shifted so that at times the eagleblood was more strongly marked than others … how the cap-like golden hair shone beneath the light from the wall sconces … |
| 20 | She always felt rather uneasy when he became absorbed in anything like this . |
| 21 | He became involved at a much more personal level , playing cricket at Horton . |
| 22 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates , generally regarded as the wealthiest person in the US , is no longer the country 's most eligible bachelor — he became engaged over the weekend to 28- year-old Melinda French , a Dallas-born product manager at Microsoft who joined Microsoft in 1987 and is now product manager for the Microsoft Publisher desktop publishing programme . |
| 23 | On each occasion , he became engaged in long disputes with local reporters , some of whom tried to jostle him out of the room . |
| 24 | There was also the crazy lifestyle , in particular , with Bettye Fulford , the woman he became disengaged to when he learned she was 39 not 29 and who served a parternity order on him at this year 's US Masters . |
| 25 | Gerard confined himself to documentaries and it was while making a 90-minute update on South Africa , Back On The Frontier , for ITV in 1986 , that he became fired up to press ahead again single-mindedly with the feature . |
| 26 | Next , making the grand tour to Rome , he became inspired by the landscapes of Claude Lorraine , Nicolas Poussin , and Salvator Rosa . |
| 27 | The Grenadiers and Chasseurs , finding that the town was impassable , crossed the little River Dyle to the west , and it would seem that he became separated from them . |
| 28 | It is typical of Richard that he accepted the task with alacrity and succeeded with such brilliance that almost overnight he became recognized as a famous warrior . |
| 29 | In his most recent book , The Essene Odyssey , he describes how , after reading our book in 1982 , he became intrigued by the mysterious principle allegedly worshipped by the Knights Templar under the name of ‘ Baphomet ’ . |
| 30 | In The German Ideology Marx had used Tacitus as his source for tribal German society , but by the time of Formen he became influenced by the nationalist and romantic nineteenth-century tradition of German historiography , a tradition which was to influence him even more later on , and which was to have a dramatic and harmful effect on Engels . |