Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] [noun] [conj] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nails had woken up abruptly and been angry at being discovered , and had gone out into the grey morning without any conversation beyond the threat about pulping Hoomey if he split . |
| 2 | The People 's Assembly ( parliament ) , sitting on Sept. 17 , voted to dismiss the Attorney General , Maksim Haxhia , after hearing allegations that he had failed to carry out his duties properly and had falsified state documents . |
| 3 | He 's got a pair of shearing scissors and he 's been doing like , this boy 's African , so he 's got , you know , Afro hair , which you can do curly-wurly signs on the back of him , it looks pretty neat . |
| 4 | Also absent was Taylor , to the anger of some delegations who accused him of delaying proceedings while he strengthened his bid for the interim presidency . |
| 5 | It was basically the same old idea of stripping kissograms but he had one or two speciality lines . |
| 6 | A courting stallion stays out of kicking range while he smells the mare cautiously . |
| 7 | James Coats , junior ( 1841–1912 ) , was a member of the Paisley family of industrialists J. & P. Coats , whom most of us know best as the makers of sewing cotton but he appears to have made the presentation of these libraries Personally and not through a trust established in connection with the firm . |
| 8 | Undoubtedly , he was a conservative captain rather than an adventurous one — James records that Worrell once said to him ‘ In cricket you leave well alone ’ , which , James felt , went deep into his method as a captain — but , for all that , he was not afraid of making changes if he felt they were needed . |
| 9 | In nineteen eighty three from nineteen fifty three after thirty years of making cheese , they changed his job , I think many of you are ahead of me already , he said I was given a job change and I began working in landscaping , how nice while being interviewed some time ago I was asked what I thought about being giving a job change after thirty years of making cheese and he said well it did n't bother me , I noted , frankly because I did n't like making cheese anyway |
| 10 | Goma did not show the gratitude towards the Comrade expected from someone given the privilege of leaving Romania and he continued to agitate against the regime from Paris . |
| 11 | The inspired stroke of telling Othello that he has been witness to one of Casio 's incriminatingly erotic dreams is here popped into Iago 's head because Casio does , at one point , actually hug him in his sleep . |
| 12 | Fama , who had been found guilty of shooting Hawkins as he entered the predominantly white area of Bensonhurst , ostensibly to buy a used car , was sentenced to 33@2/3 years to life . |
| 13 | Philip tells me they fight like cats every time they come within sight of each other , and Count Geoffrey is so occupied with annexing Normandy that he refuses to help her cause here . ’ |
| 14 | She watched with mounting fury as he danced the night away with Camilla Parker-Bowles at a polo ball held at Stowell Park , the Gloucestershire estate owned by Lord Vestey . |
| 15 | Wolves may not howl here in the moonlight , as they did in the journal of Jonathan Harker , but I have no difficulty in seeing Slains as he saw Count Dracula 's castle in Bukovina , the tall black windows from which not a glimmer of light came , and the jagged battlements glimpsed when the moon came out from behind the fitful clouds . |
| 16 | ‘ I thought you 'd proved your point , ’ she panted , watching him in rising panic as he moved towards her . |
| 17 | But he was going to have to wait until reaching England before he had the chance to branch into opera production . |
| 18 | He was only interested in making recordings and he had a legal base in Switzerland , which also helped him avoid a lot of problems . |
| 19 | Norman , however , recollects that at first Minton did not take it very seriously ; but one evening , when the two men had arranged to meet in a pub before going to the opera , Norman arrived late , having spent the afternoon with Henrietta , and realised on seeing Minton that he had begun to feel left out . |
| 20 | A music teacher who turned his hand to writing books after he suffered a stroke yesterday presented the Mayor of Darlington with some of his works . |
| 21 | The warrior Wottolen protested in vain to Looking Glass that he had seen a vision of disaster at this place . |
| 22 | On asking Louis if he had seen my letter he withdrew his pipe from his mouth , his eyes narrowed , and he replied : |
| 23 | But he 'd trained himself in the craft of grief with the same commitment to feigning humanity as he had learning to shiver ; his tutor , the Bard ; Lear his favourite lesson . |
| 24 | He has had only sporadic , unskilled labour work since leaving school but he did have , for 18 months , a job as a taxi driver with a friend . |
| 25 | He has had only sporadic , unskilled labouring work since leaving school but he did have , for 18 months , a job as a taxi driver with a friend . |
| 26 | He had n't played rugby football since leaving school but he tackled the girl as if he were a wing-threequarter playing for Ireland at Lansdowne Road . |
| 27 | One clue unfinished in a Listener puzzle , and he would strain the capacity of every last brain-cell to bursting point until he had solved it . |
| 28 | For instance , Piers 's unforthcoming remark about avoiding love because he had once tasted it and it had left a bitter after-effect . |
| 29 | He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station . |
| 30 | John has also become quite adept at treating fish and he has bought several with faults and restored them to full health . |