Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got so fed up with it that he even tried a salmon shepherd 's pie to make it more interesting . |
| 2 | The four-year-old has always been highly strung and Hiner added : ‘ He got so worked up that the French vets could n't examine him . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ He got so worked up he had to ask to use the toilet . |
| 4 | He looks hard done by . |
| 5 | He looks hard done by . |
| 6 | In particular circumstances a director may owe a duty directly to shareholders ; that duty will not derive from his status as a director but from particular responsibilities he has voluntarily taken on . |
| 7 | Well , he has just flown about . |
| 8 | ‘ But this year he has just gone out and done the job . |
| 9 | He has just walked out into a spectacular summer storm . |
| 10 | Either he has just woken up or he has been grinding his face into his pillow . |
| 11 | When I quip that he sounds as if he has just come round from anaesthetic , Eva says , ‘ He has . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ He has just come back from Canada and he will go back to Canada . ’ |
| 13 | He jumps up from the day-bed on which he has just sat down . |
| 14 | Since the success of ‘ A Fish Called Wanda ’ , he has largely kept out of the public eye . |
| 15 | " I have been connected with different unions for this last twenty years " , he declared to the Royal Commission on Labour in 1892 , " but I am sorry to state that they have been formed for the benefit of one man , for he has generally cleared out with the funds " . |
| 16 | He has even gone back to old techniques . |
| 17 | In fact , he has even carried out a number of burial-at-sea ceremonies with ashes scattered across the waves . |
| 18 | Anthony Summers specialises in works of investigation , with the assassination of John F Kennedy , the life and death of Marilyn Monroe and the Profumo scandal among the subjects he has previously taken on . |
| 19 | Since then he has steadily moved on and mostly up . |
| 20 | Which he has completely filled up |
| 21 | He has since gone on as librarian and as professor of art history to write standard books on eleventh-century illumination in Normandy , Flemish illumination in the 1480s , Italian illumination of the Renaissance , insular illumination from the sixth century , English illumination of the thirteenth century , and many other far-ranging studies and catalogues and exhibitions . |
| 22 | Last year , a couple of their events were not fully covered by sponsorship income and it is doubtful whether Mark McCormack will want to add to the £2million or so he has already poured in . |
| 23 | He has already ruled out the forcing of a by-election by the elevation of a senior Tory MP to the Lords . |
| 24 | He says he has already ruled out IBM Corp , and what makes the announcement intriguing is that the number of potential partners is so small . |
| 25 | ( In good humour he has already turned back to the mime : the two SPIES awaiting execution at the hands of the PLAYER ) Audiences know what to expect , and that is all that they are prepared to believe in . |
| 26 | He has already taken over 12 million paces and worn out six pairs of tough walking boots . |
| 27 | He has already put up the four corner posts . |
| 28 | He has already laid down a marker by setting the fastest time in history during pre-season testing at the oval track in Phoenix , Arizona , where the next round of the Indycar series will be held on 4 April . |
| 29 | In addition to his share of the £136,000 prize fund for his match with Timman , he has already picked up a share ( with Timman ) of around £500,000 from sponsorship by the manufacturers of the Mephisto Chess Computer . |
| 30 | He does feel sad about it , that is why he dressed in black , but he has already set out on what he believes to be his destiny , and so he wo n't allow these emotions to stop him . |