Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is convinced this is the best Fermanagh side he has ever played on , and adamant that the county 's emergence is no overnight success . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | A skill he has obviously picked up under the guidance of Dalglish . |
| 4 | He led me into the hut he had just come out of |
| 5 | So he looked behind himself and saw that the passage he had just come down was one of many , all wrinkled and wormy and dripping and tangled with roots , and he thought he could never find his way back so he must perforce push on and see what lay in store . |
| 6 | Friends from the council he had once served on . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Exhausted by the long words and the morning 's adventure in the corridors he had soon drifted off to sleep . |
| 9 | Modigliani arrived with a box of paints and a canvas he had already worked on . |
| 10 | It ranged over many other matters , none of which were pleasant and some of which until he came to Broadstairs he had almost put out of his mind . |
| 11 | I put a lot of it down to Harry Enfield ; just this week he 'd really taken off . |
| 12 | ‘ By nature Paul is a quiet , unassuming lad , but this season he has really come out of his shell and his game has improved no end . |
| 13 | As for that other one , which was how he now alluded to the daughter he had always doted on , she was in her room and there she would stay until she saw sense . |
| 14 | ‘ Please yerself , ’ answered Tom , but before he could warn Zach about the waterlogged floor he had already leapt down inside . |
| 15 | It was the only thing he had ever stood out for . |
| 16 | And I do n't want you touching anything of mine , ’ she added fiercely , wrenching out of his hand a book he had just picked up . |
| 17 | I think er what the county council 's position is in terms of the statement he 's just read out it is that er the county council strategic framework , the structure plan alteration number three , the high fly policy which we discussed yesterday , is an attempt to address the needs of the districts and if we 've got this right then sufficient land should be identified or allocated to the districts within Policy I five . |
| 18 | Richie dialled the number he had never written down but always carried in his memory . |
| 19 | ( 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ But this year he has just gone out and done the job . |
| 21 | It is only a couple of years ago that Jenkins rejected out of hand the Wales involvement he has now taken on , and — until Davies and the Wales manager , Robert Norster , beat their path to his door — he has tended to use the expression ‘ poisoned chalice ’ whenever anyone sounded out his interest or rather the lack of it . |
| 22 | Myles had more understanding and sympathy for this character than for all the others he had ever read about . |
| 23 | Mr Mounsa , 47 , was ordered to strip off the wallpaper he had just put up at the house in Toxteth . |
| 24 | While an expert is often required to give an opinion based on examinations or interviews he has actually carried out , he may also be asked to express an opinion on evidence before the court within his particular area of expertise . |
| 25 | After a chase on foot of over three miles he had finally run out of puff and offered to fight me for the goods . |
| 26 | It was the worst time he had ever lived through . |