Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adj] [noun] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made countless pots of tea , set and washed up tray after tray , helped the night junior hand round tea to the stunned , grey-faced rows of waiting relatives . |
| 2 | He combined a cold approach with references to emotive issues like the Boer War , he spoke in a matter-of-fact way , he made clever use of sarcasm at the expense of opponents , and he recognized the value of a decisive attitude that would be firmly grasped by a party audience . |
| 3 | He made tut-tutting sounds of disapproval through his teeth and fingered the fraying cuffs of his jacket . |
| 4 | From his vantage point in Worcester House he became involved in the speculative buying of soldiers ' bills , with which he made fifteen purchases of Crown land , mostly on behalf of other men . |
| 5 | He made immediate inquiries by telephone , but felt that there was insufficient evidence to justify his intervention . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | When interviewed by complaints department officers he made similar allegations about fabrication of admissions . |
| 8 | He made some kind of deal with Erica Brausen a sort of transfer fee : it was like being a football player . |
| 9 | He made some measure of pass at me . |
| 10 | Last Saturday he made another debut for Grove Steels in the Vaux Bluebell Over 40s League . |
| 11 | Lancaster meanwhile was encamped near Bedford , and seeing his support ebb away he made another offer of submission . |
| 12 | If Coel or Coilus was the original of Old King Cole , he lived many centuries before smoking was practised in Britain and before fiddles had been conceived . |
| 13 | Although he is often characterized as retiring and eccentric , he entertained distinguished visitors in style , and studio staff were frequently welcomed to Old Place and treated with considerable generosity . |
| 14 | He battered 43-year-old Jane to death with a bottle at their £275,000 weekend home at Middleton-on-Sea , Sussex . |
| 15 | He chucked this bit of glass , it cut him so we ran over here . |
| 16 | He passed one fragment to Oak , the elder . |
| 17 | Returning through Bologna he passed various tests for membership of the Accademia Filarmonica and was awarded a diploma , the conditions of entry , stipulating that members must be over the age of 20 , having been waived on this occasion . |
| 18 | In 1859 he passed first class in botany in the first examination for teachers organized by the Department of Science and Art , and this was his sole academic qualification . |
| 19 | He produced another sheet of paper on which he had typed some notes . |
| 20 | The door opened and the Adjutant entered with a large file out of which he produced several sheets of foolscap . |
| 21 | He produced this piece of information with a certain dim self-satisfaction , as if it were a sort of moral American Express card . |
| 22 | The local ice-cream shop is run by a Norwich man who informed all who would listen that he sold more types of ice-cream than Sainsbury 's . |
| 23 | Days Of Thunder star Cruise made the list because he has rejected ‘ hunky ’ roles in favour of films like recent outing Far And Away in which he shared top billing with wife Nicole Kidman . |
| 24 | He recommended some training for hotel staff to be a bit more professional in their attitude . |
| 25 | He announced that growth in GDP during 1989 had totalled 4.6 per cent , a figure higher than many had predicted . |
| 26 | Most controversially he announced sweeping cuts in commodity subsidies which he said were unavoidable as government subsidies on wheat and petrol had previously amounted to £S1,000 million and £S7,700 million respectively , which simply could not be sustained . |
| 27 | He announced more investment in rail links from the Channel Tunnel through Kent , a new one point five billion pound east-west train link across London . |
| 28 | Having switched to engineering , he became technical director of Blease Anaesthetics Equipment and two years later was appointed managing director . |
| 29 | He became honorary lecturer in microscopy at King 's College , London , in 1909 , a position he held for sixteen years . |
| 30 | He became special assistant to Syme for five years and was held in high esteem by his master and mentor . |