Example sentences of "he [vb past] [subord] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His war record and the fact that he had never been able to catch him redhanded whilst poaching appealed to his old world code of honour . |
| 2 | Doug felt that , as his head of department , Mary was setting the agenda of the meetings , even though she had not seen the videos he made while teaching : ‘ There may be conflict there . |
| 3 | These he made as aquatints , and the next series followed in 1796 — Series of Picturesque Views of the North of England , where by 1796 , the survey over , he informed the public that he was leaving behind his previous work and going to be a drawing master once again , but at 3 Lad Lane where he was again living with Hartley his half-brother . |
| 4 | My most vivid recollection is a gesture he made when getting me to describe my fiancée . |
| 5 | Petipa 's remark that ‘ without ports de bras the dancer is dumb ’ is only one of the wise comments he made when working on his choreographic designs . |
| 6 | Alan White came from Gloucester and married a nursing sister he met while serving in Cyprus . |
| 7 | He got talking to a man called Mac he met while listening to Vivaldi in Regent 's Park and they agreed to try playing something in one of the Baker Street concourses . |
| 8 | Mr. Gardner , whom he met while staying one Christmas at Chalon Hall near Heversham , is ‘ a good humoured man of great honour and strict integrity ’ . |
| 9 | Bondage — The stories told to cab driver David Hines by the prostitutes he met while driving around Kings Cross formed the basis of this one woman monologue detailing the grim life of a London prostitute . |
| 10 | It was amazing how eloquent he became when talking about his work . |
| 11 | It was the feeling he got while watching out for the bookies when the police were in the area . |
| 12 | He condemned the ruler of Iraq , Saddam Hussein for invading Kuwait , an act which he qualified as violating the principles of international law and of the United Nations . |
| 13 | FIREFIGHTERS yesterday freed a four-year-old who trapped his thumb in the bracket of a car wing mirror he found while playing . |
| 14 | This history of professionalism was prompted by material on the payment of players in the 1930s he found when researching Bodyline . |
| 15 | He refused to consider what he regarded as interfering in the judicial process and what they saw as moderating his policy of harassing the Free Church . |
| 16 | Jamie Blandford admitted things were different for him than for his predecessors , most of whom he described as living in blissful ignorance of the world . |
| 17 | He presided over far-reaching changes , including the abolition of censorship , in a programme which he described as aiming for " socialism with a human face " and which came to be known as the " Prague Spring " . |
| 18 | The Secretary of State therefore made some changes which he described as clarifying and amplifying the Council 's recommendations . |
| 19 | Wölflinn wrote Renaissance and Baroque in 1888 , which in the preface he described as follows : |
| 20 | But a plea for formalised plea bargaining by Bar Council chairman , was strongly repudiated by his successor , , a strong civil rights activist , who told the Criminal Law Solicitors Association conference , ‘ I can think of no greater avenue for injustice than plea bargaining ’ , which he described as mixing ‘ quantum with liability ’ . |
| 21 | Like Schleiermacher , Coleridge rejected any attempt to prove the truth of religion by appeal to rational , philosophical proofs : this seemed to him completely to miss the character of faith , which he described as having to do , not with theory , but with life . |
| 22 | Mr Justice Harman refused to grant an injunction in favour of the plaintiff and strongly criticized the use of an American contract which he described as having odd and inept phrasing . |
| 23 | Thus Marco Polo confidently assures us that the Andaman Islands were inhabited by dog-headed cannibals , while the Amazon women , whom he reported as living on an island near Socotra , turn up again , in identical form , in Columbus ' report on his second voyage to the West Indies , only this time they are inhabitants of Martinique . |
| 24 | Mark , who worked at investment house Foreign & Colonial , evaluates all the ideas with the same attention to the bottom line he used when looking at applications to provide venture capital . |
| 25 | I say that on behalf of the party he beat as opposed to the one that he put into third place — the Conservative party , which was marginalised in that by-election . |
| 26 | The £650,000 signing from Leeds could step into the first team if midfielder Steve Hodge fails to recover from the hamstring injury he suffered while training with England last weekend . |
| 27 | West will again have Paul Pook at lock , with Peter Robinson in the back row , and they expect winger Dave Cooke to have recovered from an injury he suffered while guesting for Middlesbrough last Saturday . |
| 28 | And sadly , Olympic rowers are n't the only ones feeling the pinch … on the eve of a new international rugby season Gloucester 's World Cup hero Mike Teague is seeking compensation from the sport 's governing body Iron man Mike claims the shoulder injury he suffered while playing for England has stopped him from working as a builder and he 's lost between three and five thousand pounds in earnings . |
| 29 | Tolstoy 's evidence for this massacre having taken place comes from three alleged eyewitnesses whom he quotes at length , and whom he interviewed while writing his book 40 years later . |
| 30 | They would wait silently by the roadside for a victim and could only he identified if forced to speak , for then they would emit a loud bray . |