Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [verb] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said I 've liked I 've liked most songs he 's put out I 've just never had an al bought an album or anything . |
| 2 | ’ cheery voice and shrill whistle will be sadly missed in Malt Dispatch by all the drivers he has guided back on to the doings ! |
| 3 | So when I got there this morning he was still in his pyjamas he 'd got on quite well , all he wanted me to do was wash his face . |
| 4 | Over his pyjamas he had put on a new Fair Isle pullover which had been his mother 's Christmas present . |
| 5 | The edgy , intense performances he 'd racked up ( as the raging skinhead in Alan Clarke 's Made In Britain , as a retarded teen in Mike Leigh 's Meantime , as a gangster hooligan in ( The Hit ) , the Most Promising Newcomer Award the Evening Standard gave him — none of it really helped . |
| 6 | No , she thought , putting together some of the pictures he had cut out — a refrigerator , a mowing machine , a gentleman in evening dress — children never forget . |
| 7 | When old Aaron Tyson from Limestone Hill sold to the greengrocer 's the turnips he 'd stacked up for his sheep . |
| 8 | Through nominees he 'd bought up a major holding in the company . |
| 9 | He 's won several awards for his radio work and has been praised by top journalists for documentaries he 's come up with for Radio One . |
| 10 | Dauntless had seen nothing remotely intriguing for hours ; this was not one of the most attractive areas he 'd travelled through . |
| 11 | Balcon moved , with several of the scriptwriters and directors he had brought up through Gaumont-British , to the American company , MGM . |
| 12 | Duroc looked over the reports from the engineers he had sent down into the dry sewers . |
| 13 | But William 's grandad was too busy working to notice or care , riding shotgun to a great clattering brute of a knitting machine that reminded him of the Irish cobs he 'd broken in for the brewery ; he could knit thirty fully fashioned stockings an hour , sixteen hours a day . |
| 14 | The next day the Prince was leading a small group of businessmen he had brought over from Britain , including Stephen O'Brien , to look at a scheme called the Boston Compact , evidence that the United States had woken up sooner than anyone else to the dilemma of falling educational standards . |
| 15 | In just a few days he had pushed back the horizons of her world far out of sight . |
| 16 | Later , ashamed , Two-Dogs would picket screenings of the films he had appeared in , although he admitted in private that many times as a young man he had eaten well at a movie commissary when he would otherwise have starved . |
| 17 | The rent on this new place , like the rent on all the places he 'd lived in since he arrived in the city , was paid for by the Social Security . |
| 18 | He took me round all the places he 'd slept in . |
| 19 | He could have basked in the illusion of being a benevolent father-figure to his people , actually loved and appreciated and secure in the knowledge that even after he went , things would go on along the tracks he had laid down . |
| 20 | In this , of the great poet-critics of the past the one he most nearly resembles is Dryden , whose criticism virtually always comes before us as the preface to a volume of original imaginative writing — including translations which , in this too like Pound , Dryden considers no less ‘ original ’ than poems he has made up for himself . |
| 21 | After three years he had saved up enough money to travel to Melbourne where he stayed with his uncle . |
| 22 | For years he had plodded on in a series of jobs on building sites — and at one stage he even played football as a semi-professional in Ireland . |
| 23 | Within five years he had paid back every penny , and by 1960 his ships were making a good deal of money . |
| 24 | For the past 20 years he has sent out a nature news sheet every few weeks , detailing his observations of birds , butterflies and flowers , illustrated with his own hand coloured drawings . |
| 25 | He said 18 parliamentary questions he had put down remained unanswered , after the Prime Minister claimed that all the financial details of the car company 's sale to British Aerospace had been released . |
| 26 | Art is a human activity consisting in this , that one man consciously by means of certain external signs , hands on to others feelings he has lived through , and that others are infected by these feelings and also experience them . |
| 27 | We are kept reading by the promise of an original sin or trauma that will justify — either in psychological or moral terms — the very existence of the story , but stripped of the successive identities he has built up over the years , Philip 's father is revealed as no more than an insecure , over-imaginative little boy . |
| 28 | Talbot and Van Gelder looked at each other in silence , then bent forward over Theodore 's shoulders to look at the figures he had added up . |
| 29 | Professor Robin Murray , of the Institute of Psychiatry and King 's College Hospital , London , told the annual British Association Science Festival , at Keele University , Staffordshire , the flu risk to unborn babies seemed to affect girls rather that boys following four studies he had carried out in England . |
| 30 | In the theatre , he argues , there is ( a ) an internal dramatist — who makes up the characters and their actions ; ( b ) an internal actor — who represents to the reader for his benefit the actions he has made up as dramatist ; and , finally , ( c ) an internal audience . |