Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the patient has poor balance , he sits well supported on the plinth , with his feet flat on the floor . |
| 2 | If Moby became nervous or anxious , I suggested Jeanne and John tried to ignore it and simply jolly him along unless he became overtly upset , in which case they were to offer short , protective verbal reassurance , insist gently on a ‘ sit ’ , then gradually lead him off again toward the object or person which had spooked him . |
| 3 | Ghatak wanted to combine insights from Marxism with elements from India thought , as well as the work of Jung , with which he became increasingly fascinated . |
| 4 | He became increasingly agitated . |
| 5 | He became increasingly attached to an almost Greek sense of the hero , but recast in a mould similar to Nietzsche 's superman . |
| 6 | He became increasingly embittered , alienating both his family and personal friends . |
| 7 | He became increasingly frustrated by his inability to preserve food , especially dairy products , during hot summer months . |
| 8 | Vale built up his reputation as a ‘ low comedian ’ in the provinces , playing mostly in farces and adaptations , among them the musical comedy , The Boarding House , or Five Hours at Brighton , by Samuel Beazley [ q.v. ] , in which he played the comic militiaman Simon Spatterdash , a propounder of curious comparisons , a role with which he became completely identified off-stage , so that his fame spread far and wide . |
| 9 | My master was like that : once his mind probed a mystery or problem , he became physically agitated , gnawing away at it until he had satisfaction . |
| 10 | In 1910 he became partially paralysed , losing the use of his legs , but he continued to drive about his garden and woods . |
| 11 | Medina trained as a merchant in Amsterdam , moved to London in 1670 , and from 1672 until 1677 lived in Great St Helens , where he became well established as a merchant . |
| 12 | He taught initially at a junior school in Berkshire , then at a grammar school , and later at Downe House , where he became well known on the art-teaching circuit when his pupils won ( for two consecutive years ) a national art competition and their work toured internationally . |
| 13 | They were exotic , impoverished days for Nicholson and , above all , big experiences for the boy from Neptune who had by now left the protective custody of his sister/mother and was sharing an apartment with one of a group of friends who he met at the time and with whom he remained close when he became well known . |
| 14 | He became well known as a music festival adjudicator , working in Canada every alternate year between 1924 and 1938 , and he took the Glasgow Orpheus Choir on tours to Canada , the USA , and half a dozen European countries . |
| 15 | He became highly acclaimed amongst the Irish-American community for his so-called ‘ Morrison visas ’ . |
| 16 | I believe he became dangerously fascinated by the idea of having one sex merge into the other . ’ |
| 17 | A few months later , he became fully detached . |
| 18 | He became quite carried away as with dexterous strokes he carved a particularly exquisite right breast and set to work on the delicate fluting of the ribs . |
| 19 | As she became more sexually active — to him , frighteningly so — he became seriously disturbed about whether he could keep up with her . |
| 20 | He became seriously agitated . |
| 21 | He became very withdrawn and died there not long after wards . |
| 22 | Entering New College as an undergraduate in October 1880 , he became deeply stirred by the social and imperialist ideas current in Oxford at the time . |
| 23 | Manager Dick Graham immediately went back to his former club , West Bromwich Albion , and purchased Welsh International , Tony Millington to take over but , by the end of the year it was Jackson who was earning praise in the Palace goal after standing in for the injured Welshman and making his home debut against Cardiff on 28 November 1964 , and by the end of the season ‘ Jacko ’ , as he became popularly called , was in undisputed possession |
| 24 | He became less agitated . |
| 25 | June and Robert Braithwaite achieved much better intercourse both in and out of bed when she learned to understand and value his greater need of physical sensation and he became less worried by her being different and placing a lower value on physical experience . |
| 26 | Of course we knew he was a celebrated painter , everyone did , and I think the neighbourhood felt quite disappointed when by moving down here he became less celebrated . |
| 27 | Thereafter he became better known as a forensic scientist achieving such professional distinctions as presidency of the Medico-Legal Society and of the Forensic Science Society ( of which Grant was a founder member and secretary ) . |
| 28 | Another field in which he became actively involved was wireless , his interest being aroused by a lecture on Hertzian waves given by his friend ( Sir ) Oliver Lodge [ q.v. ] in 1894 . |
| 29 | Later that night he became so engrossed in his studies he completely forgot about it . |
| 30 | He became so identified with us that he was the perfect penitent and made the perfect confession to the Father for us . |