Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He studied acting under the GI Bill and after touring in summer stock he began landing parts in television as heavies . |
| 2 | In resisting rationalism he risks emphasising paradox to the point where it can seem sheerly irrational ; his insistence on the otherness of God and the sinfulness of man , and his fondness for some of the more arbitrary-seeming accounts of God in the stories of Abraham and Job , leave much too little place for a positive grasp of grace and mercy , goodness and love , though he does attempt to give them place ; his stress upon the centrality of the incarnation of God in Jesus commonly seems to reduce to the bare repetition of the claim that Jesus was also , paradoxically , God , but not fully to work through the implications and purpose of this identification of God with man ; his bitter attacks upon ‘ Christendom ’ in his latter years reveal rather too much of the solitary individualist who has little sense of the nature of community . |
| 3 | As a result he kept bumping into everybody . |
| 4 | DETECTIVES in Paisley have been ordered to check new evidence presented to the Scottish Secretary , Ian Lang , by a man appealing against his conviction for a murder he denies committing . |
| 5 | STAR Trek star Patrick Stewart was so upset by an episode dealing with torture he studied harrowing tapes of interviews with victims . |
| 6 | In interview he denied having interfered with the computer . |
| 7 | During his time at college he started modifying Austin Sevens and on 1 January 1952 his famous Lotus Engineering Company was registered , thanks to a loan of £25 from Hazel Williams , who later became his wife . |
| 8 | The moment Joseph stepped through the doorway he began coughing uncontrollably . |
| 9 | ‘ He buys me panties , bras and garter belts that are really sexy , ’ she said before going on to reveal , ‘ When I was designing underwear he kept saying , ‘ Make sure there are some sexy bits . ’ ’ |
| 10 | In the next record gap he came trundling into the studio to tell me that the phone call was from the bride 's stepmother . |
| 11 | When his three-year-old son saw the rods he started crying and said he wanted to go fishing , and was still upset the next morning . |
| 12 | No wonder he kept losing the battles . |
| 13 | At two hundred feet he began firing . |
| 14 | Viewers latched on to , and sympathized with , a vulnerable character who was unable to keep a job — as a security guard he lost his dog and as a fireman he kept missing the fire engine — and roared with laughter as his world collapsed around him . |
| 15 | Sometime after we began work he started talking about the King 's Cross railway station fire that killed so many and about the fact that he was on an underground train going through the station at that time . |
| 16 | Look at the mess he made making a cup of tea . |
| 17 | About the second week in December he began taking his still into the night lavatory every evening . |
| 18 | Because they 're bringing this bloke he goes fishing with |
| 19 | L. he intends sending home a large case of skins , skeletons , eggs , etc . |
| 20 | He were tired anyway , minute his head hit pillow he started chuffing snoring . |
| 21 | He had been just too young for the Korean War , and one day he told me that it was one of the experiences he regretted having missed . |
| 22 | Whilst living at Bedford Gardens he began taking Bobby Hunt around his favourite haunts . |
| 23 | Now if he makes the swap he risks reducing his ultimate claim from , say , a $1,000 face value to the $400 market value . |
| 24 | On reflection he advised consulting the foreign ministry . |
| 25 | Despite the loss of all external stimulus he continued painting throughout his life , working in both oil and water-colour . |
| 26 | At the first morning of rehearsal he began yawning and looking at his watch , wanting to be off for a drink . |
| 27 | She was a type he found threatening . |
| 28 | During the campaign he suggested appointing a peace envoy to the troubled province an idea that angered and appalled the government . |
| 29 | After the war he began commentating on radio then moved to television in 1951 . |
| 30 | After the war he contemplated becoming a District Officer in Rhodesia but decided to rejoin the Consular Service . |