Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.

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1 Does not he feel that unwise comments such as those that he made do not help an already difficult situation ?
2 Leeds worked hard to use the sources to provide a chronology of the development of brooch types ( 1933 ) and the extremely dubious assumptions he made have coloured a great deal of thinking to this day .
3 ( 57 ) By God , if he dares come here again , I 'll make him damned sorry he did .
4 The air left Penry 's lungs with an audible hiss as he helped disentangle her , his square white teeth biting into his lower lip when she stood naked in front of him , hands behind her back as she eyed him diffidently .
5 Until he died at Hawarden , Flintshire , 8 January 1933 he helped organize the St Deiniol 's Library of Henry , Baron Gladstone of Hawarden .
6 Walker was one of the most active members of the steering committee appointed in 1853 to establish the museum ; and as secretary of the British Association in 1859–61 he helped organize the Oxford meeting of 1860 , which inaugurated the museum but became famous for its discussion of Darwinism .
7 One man , Ivan Masterson , talks about how he helped pull people from the rubble and says : ‘ It must have been the second body I helped to take out … it was an awful shock seeing my uncle there with his wife beside him . ’
8 Although he helped make development a causal science his theories were largely wrong ; even so , his preformationist ideas , in which nuclear determinants were unequally distributed during cleavage did stimulate the key experiments .
9 SUPERMAN artist Joe Shuster , who lost millions by signing away the rights to the comic book hero he helped create , has died in Los Angeles aged 78 .
10 The first school he helped build at Khumjung in 1961 started with 40 pupils and one teacher — it now has 400 pupils and 17 teachers .
11 However , his indisposition was short-lived for in the foursomes later he helped return the lowest gross of 96 , being runners-up to the Club 's Captain and Miss E. Simmons .
12 Between then and 1987 he helped grow the business from three hotels to 63 , becoming managing director of the hotel division in 1985 .
13 She hates even using the meanings the way he helped design them .
14 For all his coinciding with the world of fashion , with the glamour and risks of the pederasty he helped publicise , Mapplethorpe 's pictures remain alien to the canons of American good taste and to meat-and-potato American ideas about art .
15 Graham Hill had already joined the Lotus team a year earlier and he helped lift the gloom by winning the world title in 1968 .
16 He also studied under the successful architect Isaac Ware [ q.v. ] whom he helped prepare a new edition of Lord Burlington 's Fabbriche Antiche , a book of engravings from the collection of Palladio drawings belonging to Lord Burlington ( Richard Boyle , third Earl of Burlington , q.v . ) .
17 The brother of a Tory MP he helped negotiate the merger between the 2 Alliance partners and has chaired the committee running the new party 's annual conference ever since .
18 At the same time , he helped develop Matra Engins , of which he became vice-president in 1957 , into the highly profitable defence , telecommunications and aeronautics firm , Matra .
19 After his release in the mid-1970s he became a successful businessman and hotelier but later went into exile in Rome , where he helped finance the USC , returning to Somalia in late 1990 .
20 Three weeks ago , he helped launch the Northern Milk Partnership , a non-profit-making body dedicated to supplying milk to Northern Foods .
21 The tale is slight ; a voyage on a luxury train during which a down-on-his-luck-but-permanently optimistic producer attempts to regain the services and the affections of the famous actress he helped become a star .
22 ANDY SINTON last night revealed he plans to quit QPR — just days after he helped steer them to the top of the Premier League .
23 Jan Turner says that he helped organise an evererst marathon a few years ago and one sad thing about that was the local runners could not afford the right equipment or did n't have the money to tarin … so he 's here to help them
24 For three years he helped run the ID Gallery , Düsseldorf , which deals in contemporary art .
25 Jane thought she 'd better not offer to shake hands in case he let go of the stick and fell over .
26 He let go Lee 's arm and Lee ran down to the ride .
27 He let go of her arm .
28 He let go of Leila who rubbed her wrist , holding it close to her chest .
29 Then he let go the bow line , jumped on board , and ran aft to the cockpit .
30 Trent waited until the catamaran was pointing downriver , then he let go the stern line , pulling it in and coiling it down .
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