Example sentences of "he [verb] [n mass] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made £60 million as one of tennis 's biggest stars but lost a fortune in disastrous business deals . |
| 2 | I never knew to whom Jean-Claude spoke or with whom he made rendezvous . |
| 3 | He made £2m profit in his first year . |
| 4 | The magistrates told him that he was ignorant , knowing no Greek , and that he made people neglect their calling . |
| 5 | He hates people who do n't ‘ think things through ’ and he does it . |
| 6 | And apart from that he looks he hates people coming into church . |
| 7 | Oh , he hates people coming into church ? |
| 8 | Does he want fruit juice ? |
| 9 | ‘ Why did he want people to cast a cold eye on him ? ’ |
| 10 | Did he think people watched him ? |
| 11 | He passed people in the street without recognising them . |
| 12 | Armed with his Royal Bank of Scotland swipe card , he passed £150 of groceries through the bar code scanner with insouciance . |
| 13 | Twenty-five years earlier , in England , Dr. David Buxton , the Principal of the Liverpool School for the Deaf and Dumb , had published a pamphlet On the Marriage and Intermarriage of the Deaf and Dumb in 1857 , in which he produced statistics to back up his belief that while it should not be forbidden for deaf people to marry , it was highly objectionable that they should intermarry . |
| 14 | He produced works of precise scholarship , especially bibliographical works and studies of painting , and he applied his historical skills to the Dead Sea scrolls , identifying the Qumran sect with the Zealots against the generally proposed Essene identification that is now generally accepted ( 1958 , 1965 ) . |
| 15 | By 1789 he produced sales of between £80,000 and £90,000 per annum , 90 per cent of them fine muslins , which now found customers as distant as Botany Bay . |
| 16 | Ratso gets Buck an introduction to a man ( John McGiver ) who is supposed to put him in touch with some rich ladies , but he begs Buck to get down on his knees and pray with him under a kitschy lit-up Jesus on the bathroom door of his hotel room . |
| 17 | By 1671 he had a nursery near St Martin-in-the-Fields , for from there he sold fruit trees for the gardens at Woburn Abbey . |
| 18 | Blote himself made use of the BKR scheme for twenty-five years ; during the last phase of the scheme 's existence he sold works to the value of DFl.150,000 to the government , most of which he kept at home . |
| 19 | He met people , made friends and absent-mindedly let them drive him home to his parents , forgetting the bride upstairs who was waiting for him to come and claim his ‘ marital rights ’ . |
| 20 | It was seldom , of course , that he met people who did n't already know . |
| 21 | And as if to make amends for the rapacity of his Victorian forebears and their employers , he re-discovered species — notably the holly fern — long thought extinct in Snowdonia . |
| 22 | He makes a bleary-eyed and disorientating living between Rungis , the wholesale fish market on the south side of Paris , and London , where he supplies fish to restaurants such as Tante Claire , Alistair Little and Suntory . |
| 23 | Simon Foster , director of the SMMT , said he expected sales in the final quarter of the year to be below those in the last three months of 1988 . |
| 24 | The best time to see the Lakes he felt was not necessarily high summer , and he recommended people to come at all times of the year so that they might appreciate the great torrents of water after rain and misty light on cloudy days . |
| 25 | ‘ He 's old , but he understands people . ’ |
| 26 | He became FRS in 1864 . |
| 27 | He became MB ( 1851 ) and FRCP ( 1859 ) . |
| 28 | ‘ Are you on a booze-up or what ? he asked belligerently. ‘ that 's what I get for coming to see you and your mother in bed with the flu , ’ his father protested indignantly . |
| 29 | He asked MPs for fair consideration as he said : |
| 30 | Then he asked suddenly. : |