Example sentences of "he [vb past] [vb pp] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once or twice he 'd gone to great lengths to deceive me but , more often , he 'd taken little trouble to cover his tracks . |
| 2 | Police charged Lashley after he 'd confessed to fellow inmates in prison while he was serving 18 years for rape . |
| 3 | He 'd returned to flying duties gradually , working as an instructor , not directly involved in any action . |
| 4 | Paul Bedworth , 19 , allegedly found a way to pay for the thousands of hours he spent connected to transatlantic computer networks . |
| 5 | By the end of the year he had converted to twin-engined fighters , joining 252 Squadron to fly Blenheim IVFs and Beaufighters . |
| 6 | When an army investigator went to interview Ronald Haeberle , the army photographer who had been with Charlie Company , Haeberle produced some horrific colour slides of the killings and said that he had included some of them in an illustrated talk about the war he had given to various clubs , teachers ' associations and youth groups . |
| 7 | Yes , that was the card he had given to old Jackdaw to post but he really did n't want all this aggravation , he was happy the way he was . |
| 8 | By the time the news reached Lyons , Anselm would have been Hugh 's guest for about six months , and the letter which he wrote to the new pope shows a remarkable advance on the letter he had written to Urban II two years earlier . |
| 9 | Commenting on Mr Hutchison 's decision Professor Raymond Miquel the Council Chairman said they would be sorry to see him go and paid tribute to the contribution he had made to Scottish sport over the past 26 years . |
| 10 | Since then he had succumbed to sporadic drinking binges . |
| 11 | His representative told a London tribunal it was now clear he had consented to medical retirement . |
| 12 | He had gone to great trouble to ascertain ways in which my knowledge of Italy and especially Libya might be put to use : As I was once again unemployed and earning no money , I needed to obtain some work . |
| 13 | Ellen 's father , Jack , had greeted his daughter with the testily expressed hope that she had not left the safe position at the royal castle that he had gone to considerable trouble to obtain for her . |
| 14 | When we got him out and he felt refreshed and better about it , he also felt worse because he realized the harm he had done to other youngster and he set about , therefore , trying to help other parents rescue their youngsters out of it . |
| 15 | He had taken to employing Jews and whores , after all . |
| 16 | He made me a desk with a roll-top and secret drawers and a matching leather stool ; a huge Tudor doll 's house with leaded windows and roses round the door , filled with hand-carved furniture ; a bow-windowed shop with a sign saying ‘ Lynne 's Store ’ and shelves stocked with dozens of tiny tins of Heinz products — it had taken him a year to cut out all the miniature Heinz logos from magazine adverts , which he had stuck to one-inch lengths of silver-painted dowelling . |
| 17 | He was laboriously attempting to sort out the financial details of the scheme he had put to Christian . |
| 18 | He had come to national and international notice in June when , in interviews first with the United States and then with the Soviet press , and at a conference of the CPSU 's radical reformist Democratic Platform faction , he had alleged that , in collusion with the CPSU , the KGB was continuing illegal covert operations against Soviet citizens . |
| 19 | Even when they had been little more than babies he had started to corrupt them . |
| 20 | But Hermens said he was confident Krabbe would be cleared after he had talked to leading athletics officials and heard about another report from the World Health Organisation ( WHO ) which also classifies the drug as a stimulant . |
| 21 | Roby 's fears of what that might mean weighed against the fact that John Simpson , the BBC diplomatic correspondent , reported that he had spoken to senior Iranian politicians and was convinced that the British hostages were alive . |