Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who gossip about him tend to meet with nasty accidents . ’ |
| 2 | On 17 September 1991 Rose J. granted him leave to apply for judicial review and directed that a preliminary issue be determined whether the High Court has any jurisdiction to hear an application for judicial review of a decision of visitors to the Inns of Court . |
| 3 | But Hodkinson admitted last night : ‘ When Colin lost his title to Palecio , I thought a fight against him had gone for good . |
| 4 | I had half expected him to begin raving about cursed women and sending Melinda to Asyut . |
| 5 | Then , too , Colin Watson was particularly adept in the creation of the detective he chose to investigate , or struggle with , the curious crimes he made to happen in everyday Flaxborough . |
| 6 | And Reynolds said he planned to return to indoor competition in the next couple of months and hoped to compete in both the world indoor and outdoor championships . |
| 7 | And he avoided borrowing at penal rates of interest . |
| 8 | On each occasion , he became engaged in long disputes with local reporters , some of whom tried to jostle him out of the room . |
| 9 | For the final two years of his schooling he switched to Kingston College of Further Education , where he became fascinated by British political history ( ‘ I was living in the nineteenth century , ’ he says ) . |
| 10 | It also led to his enjoying a considerable reputation on the Continent , where he became acquainted with leading intellectuals such as Marin Mersenne , Pierre Gassendi , and Rene Descartes . |
| 11 | Kermode is referring to the demise of the man of letters , or the ‘ bookman ’ as he became known in late-Victorian England , and his replacement by the professionalized university critic . |
| 12 | He failed to respond to increased doses of cyclosporin , up to 150 mg twice a day . |
| 13 | Afterwards , oesophagoscopy was repeated twice as he failed to respond to conservative management . |
| 14 | He admitted driving with excess alcohol but said he should n't be banned . |
| 15 | Adish Sadik , 28 , of Chadburn Road , Norton , Stockton , was fined a total of £250 with £40 costs by Thirsk magistrates yesterday after he admitted driving without due care and attention and speeding last June . |
| 16 | He sought to show by ingenious argument that it must be false because he could find thought experiments which circumvented it . |
| 17 | as he tried to explain in rhyming verse |
| 18 | He tried to slip in unnoticed but it was too late . |
| 19 | As it was he tried to think of other things . |
| 20 | He tried to think of other names , and remembered one ; Olivia . |
| 21 | With all of these writers the technical , and apparently neutral , quality of their specialist , language is used to give greater weight and universality to arguments about literacy and objectivity which , when analysed closely , can he demonstrated to rest upon social and ideological presuppositions . |
| 22 | Against this vision of debtors ' prisons , ‘ harm to interests ’ theories merely require a person in default to pay monetary compensation for any harm which he has caused to protected interests . |
| 23 | In this way he has lived in Nazi Germany or sat beside a small girl in Vietnam who gazes into the distance with a fixed stare and cries into the silence with a monotonous , elemental shriek . |
| 24 | Now that he has retired from full time teaching , Guisborough-based John Brelstaff is able to devote more of his time to painting and has been able to resume the work left off when he left the Slade in the mid-Fifties . |
| 25 | He has alluded to existing clinical skills and appropriate postgraduate formal education being necessary before registration could take place and provider numbers granted . |
| 26 | To ask the Secretary of State for Defence what recent representations he has received on low flying ; and if he will make a statement . |
| 27 | But as they analyse what he has said to different people , they begin to see that the question is not really pertinent . |
| 28 | From birth he has suffered from severe physical disabilities . |
| 29 | On the face of things , President Carlos Salinas continues to treat energy as a special case , a no-go area for the free-market reforms he has applied to other parts of the economy . |
| 30 | He has played on Panamanian nationalism to exploit resentment at US interference in Panamanian affairs and met charge with counter-charge . |