Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the poem of his that he most needed reassurance about was Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) , and for that he had to wait a long time . |
| 2 | I vividly remember , although I was in a thoroughly sleepy condition , telling him that in my view the only proper justification for an enquiry about Mr Profumo 's personal life depended on the possibility that some act of his might have compromised security , because he obviously had information which was secret . |
| 3 | Do not fail ’ — he was having to shout now above the stir ( was everything clear ? or had he only thrown water on a fire ? ) — ‘ do not fail to put in a clause calling on the proprietors to undertake nothing punitive against tenants seen at meetings . |
| 4 | That 's right , Peter he 's er he , he just started work in my department about three or four weeks ago , yes . |
| 5 | Had he not taught music , his second choice would have been PE , says Mr Essex , who comes originally from Didcot . |
| 6 | Had he not smoked dope ( if only once ) ? |
| 7 | Why , wondered Senator Rudman at the hearings , had he not taken North into his office and closed the door and put him up against the wall and pushed him and pushed him and pushed him ? |
| 8 | He could have been in a hotel , had he not needed care and supervision which he blatantly did not get . |
| 9 | It is debatable whether he ever envisaged trailer operation in its accepted sense , with trailers being detached at off-peak times . |
| 10 | Mm , mm I 'm sure , has he still got car in garage like ? |
| 11 | Is he is he still got overtime ? |
| 12 | She put aside the guilty thought that he made love as if he had studied it as he had told her he once studied keyboard fingering and Bach 's Innovations . |
| 13 | Although he later affected contempt for the poor , Walters had grown up the son of a working-class Leicestershire Communist . |
| 14 | The fact is , as he later told Boy , O almost quit The Bar that week . |
| 15 | He had not merely failed to interest her in a story , he had found the only thing he had to sell was worthless and he urgently needed money . |
| 16 | Nelson was so impressed he immediately offered Grove a re-match . |
| 17 | In the post-Althusserian context of today it is nevertheless somewhat startling to find the Althusser of Reading Capital citing his debt to Foucault ( along with Bachelard , Cavaillès , and Canguilhem ) as one of our masters in reading learned works'. perhaps even more unexpected , in the light of the fact that a popular British Marxist position on Althusser is that he simply turned history into theory , is the choice of Foucault 's Madness and Civilization ( ’ that great work' ) and The Birth of the Clinic as examples of the kind of history , focused on the necessity of the production of a concept , that he was advocating . |
| 18 | Not only has he again fallen flat on the ground , but his head and his hands have broken off and lie at the entrance of the building . |
| 19 | Although John 's percentage cut depended on the total amount collected , it was known that he never harassed tax debtors , indeed , anyone with genuine difficulty in paying was likely to be entertained to lunch at Henrietta Villa by the sympathetic Comptroller . |