Example sentences of "he [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | But towards the end of the second or fourth repeat he made some small alteration in the ports de bras so that the dancer could move easily into the next sentence . |
| 2 | He only knew that the speech had told and that he raised applause , and that he made some jokes which aroused laughter . |
| 3 | He made some very basic country records . |
| 4 | Hopper listened , and was clearly taken by some kind of presence while in Manson 's company because when he recalled the meetings , he made some frank comments about the murders . |
| 5 | Later , he made some corrective statements pointing out that although he had made these observations , he was certainly not advocating the use of any drugs , although he continued to ridicule some of the US government 's attempts to stem the tide as being the wrong way to deal with the problem . |
| 6 | However , although he made some valuable and technically superb images there , he became disillusioned by travel , and came home to London for good . |
| 7 | At Roche he made some new compounds of the same class , but they were no more rewarding . |
| 8 | And , when the light-valve was finally delivered in 1934 , he made some stereo variable-area optical soundtracks almost identical to those adopted by the film industry in the late 1970s . |
| 9 | Although he made some magnificent paintings and drawings of it he preferred a milder climate to produce his masterpieces . |
| 10 | Something was wrong she knew though she could not have said what it was and she was not in the least surprised when he made some excuse about being a bit busy next week and unable to see her . |
| 11 | And then we 'd cycle to Pilton , and I was completely happy beside my big fine-looking uncle with his shiny blue-black hair while he made some dinner , and then we 'd potter about all afternoon in his garden and his little greenhouse . |
| 12 | He made some lovely records in the '50s but Cedric West ( still around and still playing ) steals this one . |
| 13 | He made some of them with solid necks for playing slack-key instead of slide — there were a number of different models . |
| 14 | One day he found himself in charge of the biggest train set in Never Never Land , and so he made some jolly exciting movies about friendly aliens , man-eating sharks , and an archaeologist who zoomed around the world thrashing Nazis . |
| 15 | Manager Phil Holder enthused : ‘ I was delighted with Benstead 's return , he made some tremendous one-on-one saves . |
| 16 | Elena Ceauşescu was not without her own ambitions and may well have agreed to the ( temporary ) sidelining of Nicu after he made some mild protests about the state of the food supply in Sibiu . |
| 17 | Mother asked him to come to Sunday lunch and he made some awful speech about not assuming , or something . ’ |
| 18 | Kirov realized that he was going to be pestered by the man until he made some sort of complimentary comment . |
| 19 | Surely , she thought , her son-in-law must be sadly disappointed by the casual way his wife accepted his courteous gestures , the obvious irritation Liza tried , not very successfully , to mask when he made some ordinary but perfectly reasonable remark ? |
| 20 | He made some kind of deal with Erica Brausen a sort of transfer fee : it was like being a football player . |
| 21 | After struggling with one of Ruth 's imaginative scenes , I was so relieved when Basil let me attempt to paint a spray of wheat and barley stalks that I almost began to enjoy myself when he made some encouraging remark about my very tentative effort ! |
| 22 | When Lou 's dead , the law will work it out he made some deal with Rico and the Battler to unload the girl . |
| 23 | He was particularly embarrassing on an occasion when Jennie Lee was sitting alongside him and in his groping fashion he made some amorous overtures . |
| 24 | He made some measure of pass at me . |
| 25 | He thought he made some kind of strangled gasp ; he knew his eyes would have expressed his emotions . |
| 26 | He made some remark about being surprised to receive Blanche 's request so long after the murder and not being sure what she hoped to gain from viewing the tapes . |
| 27 | he made some changes in his cabinet to assure a favourable vote , and he talked to the Shah . |
| 28 | Most notably in concert with Graham Moffatt , as the fat boy , and Moore Marriott , as the old man , he made some seventeen films . |
| 29 | Probably he made some useful friends in Bremen ; Mina said he was always asking her if she 'd heard any interesting gossip at her musical soirées . |
| 30 | But Eliot , of whom he made some absurd insinuations , imputing plagiarism , told me later on that he found Belgion an exceedingly tiresome man to deal with . |