Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat down on his bed while he threaded new laces into his boots , and then paused , one lace suspended in his hand , as he wondered suddenly why the wire service had not given the Advent any news about him . |
| 2 | The second wicket , like the first , produced 109 runs and he made 85 of them off 77 balls . |
| 3 | He made easy copy and journalists loved his accessibility . |
| 4 | He made 70 1st Division appearances for us — during that time our defence was usually under considerable pressure , most of the matches were tense affairs , and the strain on the captain was that much greater . |
| 5 | He made fourteen suggestions related to the recruitment and deployment of teachers . |
| 6 | The bottom weight , Polyfemus , has done well since joining Michael Robinson 's stable during the summer and he made all the running when beating Charter Hardware 1 ½ lengths over three miles , three furlongs at Chepstow earlier in the month . |
| 7 | One nineteenth century account of him reads : ‘ Strong minded but very illiterate … he made all his calculations by the strength of his memory , and was equally at a loss to explain what he had conceived to any other person , and from being lowly educated he had no means of conveying to paper his designs , yet would cast up the most intricate accounts in his head without difficulty or error . ’ |
| 8 | He made all sorts of innovations during his short stay — only about a year — before moving on to King 's College , Cambridge , and starting the now famous service of nine lessons and carols at Christmas . |
| 9 | He made all sorts of wild plans . |
| 10 | Meanwhile , Anderson says of the president , ‘ Over the years he made all the key decisions on the economic strategies he finally embraced . |
| 11 | He made all the stars too and the world is one of the stars . |
| 12 | But he got a pattern made and had the base of the machine made at a local foundry and he made all the leverage parts and got the , he got the blades made in Sheffield or somewhere and er he made one for himself . |
| 13 | But it just seemed that he held all the cards , he made all the decisions . |
| 14 | Tony Martin increased his lead in the Ulster jockeys championship when he made all the running on Bye For Now to take a division of the Mares Maiden Race . |
| 15 | In the days when income tax was raging at 83 per cent , he made all the preparations , " bar the rubber stamp " , to emigrate to America . |
| 16 | And then he made all sorts of tactless remarks about the state of the body . |
| 17 | He made all the movements of a man apparently answering a desperate call of nature . |
| 18 | There 's this butcher he made all his own and he got varieties in , you know , they got garlic in and herbs , everything , you know |
| 19 | I 've gone clean off him — ever since he made that pact with Stalin and the ghastly Russians . ’ |
| 20 | It can only be surmised that the Marquis was feeling pretty flush after a good win when he made that entry into his accounts , or the caddie was a highly favoured young man indeed , for four shillings at that time would have been over the top on the percentages that a caddie can expect from his round nowadays . |
| 21 | He made that 1-iron talk , hitting it below the wind . |
| 22 | Totally competent in his mind and lucid when he made that decision ? |
| 23 | He made that noise that men who drink beer make , and wiped his mouth on the back of his wrist . |
| 24 | Because he made that statement when discussing the concentric spheres with which Aristotle had built the cosmos , he was evidently aware that authoritative world-pictures were not inviolable . |
| 25 | Of course after he made that statement he did n't realize that the London Region were gon na put a thousand pound in the bucket ! |
| 26 | He made that decision having listened to representations from hon. Members from Northern Ireland . |
| 27 | He made that sign of two fingers laid across two fingers . |
| 28 | ‘ The Admiral was n't able to adduce anything new in evidence when he made that allegation . |
| 29 | Point of order , point of order , can Mr give any written evidence that the leader or Thamesdown Borough Council , in a meeting with him as leader of the Labour group on this council , that he made that statement ? |
| 30 | ‘ He made that very clear to everybody . |