Example sentences of "he [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Well Bernie oh maybe twelve months , maybe six months , I do n't know , and er he , he made that big football pitch |
| 32 | The only sounds in the room were the scratching of his pen-nib as he made each entry , and the chink of coins as he counted them out of the cash box — and the heavy breathing of Marcus Judge , who sat at the other side of the desk , his eyes fixed upon his son . |
| 33 | He made such a fine job of the earth , the sea and the hills ; He made an equally fine job of the creatures , large and small that run around on the land ; He even gave us the best crags in the world … |
| 34 | Senior counsel Edward Targowski had already proved that when he made such an effort to travel to Orkney for the first Children 's Hearing . |
| 35 | Coaching is his big strength and that 's why he made such a phenomenal start , taking a bad side all the way to Wembley . |
| 36 | Although he made such an excellent impression on the journey that it was suggested that he should remain with the Princess as her secretary , he left the royal party at Utrecht . |
| 37 | He made such a great hole in my gum that he had to stitch me up afterwards . " |
| 38 | He made such thorough notes that it was then no great labour to produce a similar Biographical Register for Cambridge ( 1963 ) — in 1958 he estimated that such a work could be completed within eighteen months — and a more summary Survey of Dominicans in England , based on the Ordination Lists in Episcopal Registers ( 1268–1538 ) ( Rome , 1967 ) . |
| 39 | Mustakimzade alone of the biographers tries to identify the medreses at which Fahreddin Acemi taught , naming two : the Darulhadis of Mehmed Sah Fenari , presumably a ( though none of the standard biographical sources mentions that he made such a benefaction nor is any such medrese or darulhadis mentioned in Baltaci 's and the Darulhadis of Murad II in Edirne . |
| 40 | He made such an impact that Laughton soon admitted : ‘ He 's better than I ever dreamed . ’ |
| 41 | I wonder why he made such a thing of that . |
| 42 | He made such noisy protestations that his nervous owner fled back into the waiting-room . |
| 43 | I think they 're too alike but after saying that , they 're quite nice and he made such a bugger of them ai n't he ? |
| 44 | It was in this way that he made many of his policy decisions . |
| 45 | He made many a false attempt , standing on one leg tottering like an overweight stork before he could trap a dangling foot and pull the wool over it . |
| 46 | In the process he made many enemies . |
| 47 | In 1950 Hoffnung began a career as a broadcaster , during the course of which he made many appearances on the radio as both raconteur and panel member . |
| 48 | He made many observations of atmospheric electricity , and tried to relate them to the weather . |
| 49 | He made many journeys on a bicycle , including a honeymoon trip the length of the north island of New Zealand . |
| 50 | In the winter of 1895–6 he built another machine , the Hawk , equipped with the world 's first sprung-wheeled undercarriage , in which , often with the assistance of a towed take-off , he made many ‘ flights ’ including his record glide of some 750 feet on 20 June 1897 . |
| 51 | He was later Head of the Unemployment Benefit Service , which he managed with great skill , and where he made many friends . |
| 52 | Although I have fundamental disagreements with the Minister on many issues , I acknowledge that he made many concessions to the logical arguments of hon. Members from the three Opposition parties involved . |
| 53 | Mr Stan Cardwell MBE , co-founder of the North-East ramblers ' association , said : ‘ His style was one of cooperation , not confrontation , and through this he made many friends , not least among the farming community , where he was regarded highly for his expertise on rights of way matters . |
| 54 | But he made little effort to develop this outside his own definitions of the genealogical method , while his shift into the problematics of power seemed to lead him into a labyrinth from which it was virtually impossible to extract himself . |
| 55 | He made little attempt at conversation and showed no surprise that he should be asked to drive to Boulogne in the middle of the afternoon to pick up a well-dressed but grubby Englishman . |
| 56 | It is unlikely that he made much money , but he had an activity and his shop was a meeting-place for other young men who dropped in to discuss the events of the day and to plan entertainments and visits for the evening . |
| 57 | ‘ I think Michael was probably miscast in The Importance of Being Earnest , ’ he recalled , ‘ but , in Coriolanus , he made much of a small part . |
| 58 | In a lengthy report on his first ten years in office he made much of the fact that , whereas " Russian was scarcely to be heard " in the western provinces at the time of his appointment , it now had " an indisputable primacy " . |
| 59 | This last statement should be noticed — he disliked assemblies and places where speeches were made at length and he did not enjoy being a chairman — but he made this single exception , the Convocation of York ; he always gave a presidential address , about which he took much trouble . |
| 60 | He made this strange reply : |