Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The team physiotherapist , Alejandro Koch , has been banned for a year because , in Fifa 's words , he was ‘ an accomplice of the doctor ’ , as has the kit man , N Maldonado , because ‘ he got rid of the gloves and jersey of the goalkeeper ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Christ , he got rid of the blanket , ’ yelped Billy . |
| 3 | He got rid of the sheets by putting them on a chair near the passage-way to the bedroom . |
| 4 | And his , and he got rid of the beautiful eagle erm you know , reading desk and he got rid of the Bishops 's erm , chair , the Bishop 's what do they call it ? |
| 5 | And his , and he got rid of the beautiful eagle erm you know , reading desk and he got rid of the Bishops 's erm , chair , the Bishop 's what do they call it ? |
| 6 | He tried to think of the worst that could happen . |
| 7 | Jane thought she 'd better not offer to shake hands in case he let go of the stick and fell over . |
| 8 | He let go of the doorknob and thrust his hands back into his pockets . |
| 9 | He let go of the door he was clutching for support and tested the muscles in his legs . |
| 10 | He let go of the handle , and put his large hands round hers , to hold the shears . |
| 11 | The Frenchman 's dark aquiline features and unsmiling silences made him think of history-book pictures he 'd seen of the warrior heroes of ancient Greece and Rome , and the dismay he had felt at first when their car had struck the Annamese villager had increased his sense of awe . |
| 12 | He 'd heard of the place . |
| 13 | He thought he 'd heard of the Box . |
| 14 | In short he 'd heard of the last minute vacancy a sort of electoral bucket shop familiar to Hexham Conservatives through Tony Blair , a friend through Cranston 's sideline as a Labour front bench trade and industry adviser . |
| 15 | Way back , he found the sketch he 'd made of the hide . |
| 16 | Returning to his old job , he 'd learned of the opportunity . |
| 17 | Under such pressure the hacker broke down and confessed : ‘ … he began to talk of the pleasure he got out of playing the weirdest experimental games with the computer … |
| 18 | He shuddered to think of the gold coin escaping from his life . |
| 19 | He decided to kill of the beloved character while still at the height of his popularity . |
| 20 | In 1801 he wrapped the plain and pleasing ashlar face around what little he decided to retain of the earlier house . |
| 21 | He kept thinking of the girl in Mu Chua 's House of the Ninth Ecstasy ; the singsong girl , White Orchid , who had looked so much like Vesa . |
| 22 | He liked to think of the problems their unpaid bills might cause Gina . |
| 23 | They were slanted somehow , and he recollected pictures he had seen of the early ancestors of the Manchu . |
| 24 | Moreover , Walpole , described in the same book ( p. 83 ) as someone who " thrived on gossip , and on playing at loo or at hazard with a duchess or two " , could very well have been a sufficiently astute observer of social mores to deduce that the first manifestations which he had seen of the new way of dressing constituted the beginning of a major trend . |
| 25 | He had heard of the loss , on her following voyage of HMS Reading . |
| 26 | Mr MacKinlay said he had heard of the existence of a list of services , some of which appeared in The Observer newspaper yesterday . |
| 27 | In it he told the king that he had heard of the outbreak of war in Wales while ‘ ordering and attending to the state of my affairs in Champagne ’ . |
| 28 | But that had been before he had heard of the shootings . |
| 29 | He had decided to take this , the most spectacular , way round to Buttermere principally because of what he had heard of the rich wadd mines in Borrowdale valley — opened up only once in seven years , so he had heard , in order to control the market in this unique mineral which was useful over a remarkable range , from gunpowder to dyes . |
| 30 | It was less than seventy-two hours since he had heard of the finding of Riddle 's clothes , but it seemed much longer . |