Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was Prime Minister he made little personal impact on television , bared his teeth at the cameras like an old dog , and was generally aloof and buffer-like . |
| 2 | He recognized his limitations , but he made little attempt to develop another technique . |
| 3 | Only last year , on the instructions of Luther Reynolds , David had brought the boy out of the mines and begun to teach him the way of business ; Matthew often accompanied him on his rounds , and though he made little attempt to befriend David , the boy worked , and learned , and spent so many hours closeted in the ‘ den ’ with the old man , that Beth was obliged to voice her concern . |
| 4 | He brought out all the papal arguments and the curial forces from legates to censures , but while he obtained acknowledgement of his final authority in matrimonial matters , he made little other headway . |
| 5 | He joined Ipswich Town , for whom he made over 150 appearances , helped them to gain League status and re-appeared at Selhurst Park with them in 1938–39 , and then again after the war . |
| 6 | Lemon is best known for his involvement with Sunderland ; he made over 100 appearances for the Roker men . |
| 7 | If , later on , he made rather too much of his lucky escape from one of Hitler 's flying bombs , describing the eerie cutting out of the engine noise seconds before it dropped , the blinding flash , the tall plume of smoke as it came to its final resting place in what was known as Bomb Alley — the route from bases in the Pas de Calais , via Kent to the capital — it was , perhaps , understandable . |
| 8 | A native Russian of genius , L. Tolstoy , had been blinded by his feelings in the famine of 1891–2 when he made mildly inaccurate statements about the Tsarist relief administration . |
| 9 | When he came back from Livorno in the late summer of 1913 he made straight for the Café Rotonde , to be greeted rapturously by artists and models on the terrace . |
| 10 | He made straight for the big warhorse , mounted , said something to Will , and started along the street . |
| 11 | Building on the Warsaw Philharmonic 's pre-war advocacy of such Polish composers as Szymanowski ( of whose Third Symphony and ballet Harnasie he made particularly strong recordings ) , Rowicki moulded the orchestra into a responsive vehicle for an exceptionally talented native generation : collaborations with Penderecki , Gorecki , Lutoslawski and a dozen other composers were a regular feature of the National Philharmonic 's concert season and not just confined to the Warsaw Autumn festival of contemporary music . |
| 12 | He made just two birdies . |
| 13 | He made just 20 League appearances for Orient but had already done enough to convince Wednesday to splash out £350,000 for his services last November , quite a sum for a player who was just 17 at the time . |
| 14 | He made similarly rapid progress when he switched to Formula Ford , the nursery of single-seater car racing , taking the British title . |
| 15 | In February 1981 , after fifteen months hors de combat , he made yet another reappearance , this time in the valuable Whitbread Trial Chase at Ascot . |
| 16 | Friends remarked that it was a measure of Branson 's single-minded approach to conversation that you could be regaling him with the most scandalous piece of tittle-tattle in London and he would turn on his heel and walk away , leaving you talking to thin air , while he made yet another telephone call about business . |
| 17 | And the following visit he made here he brought with him Miss Virginia she was one of the personnel at Stepney Causeway she was the Miss Virginia , the niece of the line and she came and she said that she would help in erm doing some organisation and and giving us some insight as to what we had to do , because we had never run a fete in all our lives ! |
| 18 | If the Minister attended and attempted to make the type of speech that he made here he would be laughed at . |
| 19 | When he said " Give us free speech " in the first number of The Polar Star , he made plain one of the two main things which Russia lacked . |
| 20 | When he asked the new tsar to give land to the peasants he made plain the other . |
| 21 | He made fast the rope round Trent 's neck to the handhold beside the companionway leading down to the head in the port hull . |
| 22 | The fake beggar ran off , turban unspooling from his head as he made pretty good time for someone unused to having two legs under him . |
| 23 | Yesterday , he said he ‘ forgot ’ about the trip which he made shortly after the break-up of his second marriage to Dr Who actress Janet Fielding . |
| 24 | My mother was so dazzled she never even thought to question him about his job , but she grew to live for the visits he made daily to the shop . |
| 25 | The pilot could n't lift the plane higher , for its engine had petered out , but he glided away from the deceptive green expanse of bog as he made further deep circling movements earthward . |
| 26 | His wrong-headedness resided in his failure to recognize that the attitudes and expenditures of which he made so much fun were merely symbols of achievement , the kind of achievement which has in fact given rise to every civilization and marked stages in the development of each one . |
| 27 | He made so many plans for this wedding . |
| 28 | Pete must have dropped onto his bed without undressing , he made so little sound . |
| 29 | Somehow he managed to make it fun , the way he made so many things fun , and , now he was either dead or else taken over by some force I could not even begin to understand , there was nothing whatsoever to keep me in the Church . |
| 30 | Thus a buyer 's legal position is better if he made no examination than if he made merely a superficial one . |