Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Walking on his hands , he made hardly any noise , only a carpet-slipper slapping of palms against the floor . |
| 32 | He made quite a decent job of it too . |
| 33 | He made quite a fuss about it , saying it was time she left the nest , stood up to the forceful Elise and lived her own life . |
| 34 | I do so because he made much clearer the philosophical basis of such a position than Milton Friedman does in , for example , Capitalism and Freedom . |
| 35 | ‘ He made much worse cuts in the ‘ Scenes aux champs ’ of Berlioz 's Symphonie fantastique and in the last movement of Martinů 's Sixth Symphony , though these seem to have been made in live performances only . ’ |
| 36 | He made very few mistakes and so often picked out the right line on the greens , lines which at the time I doubted , that I left the decisions to him . ’ |
| 37 | When Dr A B Granville published his famous and best-selling guidebook , The Spas of England in 1841 , he made very clear in the opening chapters of his mammoth work his distaste for what he regarded as ‘ the lower orders of society ’ . |
| 38 | I say to the hon. Member for Dagenham what the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland ( Mr. Wallace ) said about his speech , which is that he made very heavy weather . |
| 39 | He made very sure she got pregnant . |
| 40 | John also described an incident when he was about ten or eleven which seems to have had a traumatic effect on him , the horror of which , bottled up for many years , can be felt in ballets which he made long afterwards . |
| 41 | The Meadhaven Clinic was , he knew , one of the best in the country , yet he felt immensely frustrated after every visit he made there . |
| 42 | Ashley says it 's hard work at the Institute , but says two of his friends he made there who were also from England encouraged him . |
| 43 | Nigel also told every journalist proudly that he was ‘ married with one son ’ , although he made damn sure they did n't interview him at home , where they might meet his wife , or worse still , her friends . |
| 44 | He had n't said ‘ real coffee , ’ but he made damn sure you got the message . |
| 45 | He made doubly sure I realised I was an outcast in a heavy-handed way — and he could n't get rid of me fast enough . |
| 46 | His formal meeting with the US delegation ignored the pledge he made then only to meet ‘ old friends ’ from abroad privately and not to discuss politics . |
| 47 | Even before he reached his nineteenth birthday , he had begun to make a name as a choreographer , and one of the works he made then is still danced : only a trifle , but full of the wit that was one of his gifts . |
| 48 | I agreed with the points that he made then and that is precisely what we have done . |
| 49 | During his long stay in the south he made only one portrait with an out-of-doors setting ; the pretty shopkeeper , sitting on a chair in front of her shop , looking out with uncomprehending suspicion against a white wall . |
| 50 | After scoring on his Villa debut against his former club , Wednesday , on the opening day of the season , he made only 13 more appearances because of injuries and failed to register another goal . |
| 51 | After scoring on his Villa debut against his former club , Wednesday , on the opening day of the season , he made only 13 more appearances because of injuries and failed to register another goal . |
| 52 | Therefore — rightly claiming that his force was as yet incomplete and most of his field guns not brought up — he made only a token attack on the Russian left , while positioning his troops as they detrained and making his own tactical preparations . |
| 53 | He made only a brief speech to the meeting , described by Bridgeman to Davidson ( who was in the Argentine ) as ‘ a good opening — plain and dignified — and with fewer mannerisms than have recently been apparent , and no apparent nervousness ’ . |
| 54 | He made only 17 and 18 but so weakened himself that he was forced to pull out of the following three-day fixture in Vishakhapatnam . |
| 55 | We both know he made far more from the caravan business than he ever admitted to . |
| 56 | He made far more play than his father ( or other ninth-century Carolingians ) with the penalty of the harmscara — a public humiliation imposed at the ruler 's discretion which involved the victim 's carrying a saddle on his back . |
| 57 | Probably the harshest decision was the need for a new chief executive ( yet to be named ) to replace Andros Stakis — a move he made unhesitatingly , but ‘ with much regret and much personal vexation ’ . |
| 58 | In the next five years he made about forty ascents as a professional balloonist . |
| 59 | He made almost a clean break with the game , except for some local television work . |
| 60 | Since he made swiftly towards the forest , I had not much option but to follow . |