Example sentences of "he [vb past] [noun] of the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was so distraught by the ‘ vernal desolation of avarice ’ after 1809 at Lodore and Manesty that ‘ dreading farther mischief , ’ he made drawings of the lake margin from Stable Hills to Isthmus . |
| 2 | He made transcripts of the fiction , and of all the other major documents . |
| 3 | He made fun of the pseudo-learned , bureaucratic speech of an inspector which began like this : |
| 4 | Back in Scotland , he made measurements of the velocity of light with James Young [ q.v. ] , but their result came out somewhat higher than was later accepted . |
| 5 | Miller 's excursions into architecture were in essence a facet of his active social life — which through his patron at Hagley ( George , first Baron Lyttelton , q.v. ) included contact with the interlocking family ‘ cousinage ’ of the Lytteltons , Pitts , and Grenvilles — and like other amateur architects he made use of the assistance of professionals . |
| 6 | The same horseman , a stallion-leader , gave another instance of how he made use of the horse 's hypersensitive power of smell . |
| 7 | Four Australian cricket-writers and one Australian team manager will never forget the day at net practice in Christchurch on the 1985–86 tour of New Zealand when , during a routine discussion with the journalists on preparation for a one-day match , he made mention of the fact that he intended to resign if his shattered team did not win the match the following Saturday . |
| 8 | He made imprints of the keys in bars of soap before returning them to the sleeping prison officer . |
| 9 | During his early years in London he lived south of the river . |
| 10 | He cultivated members of the aristocracy and sprinkled them among his company boards to impress potential investors . |
| 11 | In Bavaria during the 830s , Louis had established a firm power-base for an enlarged kingdom , and his epithet " the German " , though meant by contemporaries to convey simply that he ruled east of the Rhine , would turn out curiously apt in terms of modern state-geography . |
| 12 | In his vigorous speech , he produced examples of the statements he has made . |
| 13 | In his spare time he sold copies of The Clarion , a socialist newspaper , on street corners . |
| 14 | I would stand on street corners with him while he sold copies of the Morning Star . |
| 15 | He explained without the slightest embarrassment , and while he did so he looped lengths of the rope clothes ' line by his feet . |
| 16 | I think it 's fair to say he 's the first one to acknowledge that but he did win the gold medal and as a result he became yachtsman of the year and at a time when there is very a much heightened interest in the problems of disabled and people with visual impairment it was a real boost for sailors who have those problems that we did so well during the year . |
| 17 | Perhaps again due to Hesilrige 's patronage , he became clerk of the council under the restored Commonwealth of May to October 1659 ; less predictably , however , he seems to have continued to act in this capacity under the ill-fated committee of safety ( October-December 1659 ) , this time committing himself to the service of the generals , notably Charles Fleetwood and John Lambert [ qq.v. ] , rather than the civilian leaders in the restored Rump , among whom Hesilrige was the leading figure . |
| 18 | Neither Fox nor Greville could perform all his duties , and after 1598 , when he became Treasurer of the Navy , Greville had no intention of performing any of them . |
| 19 | Then he became Treasurer of the fund to save St Erks church — and ran off with the £1000 in the appeal fund . |
| 20 | When he became Minister of the Interior and thus boss of the Securitate , its various intelligence activities and methods were explained to him . |
| 21 | A year later he became master of the Stationers ' Company . |
| 22 | However deplorable the level of his abuse , he became master of the insult that stuck to its target and was remembered . |
| 23 | There he became master of the Emma , a brig of 122 tons . |
| 24 | In 1812 he became master of the brig Williams of Blyth , newly built for him . |
| 25 | Of even greater importance , he became Secretary of the South Uist Angling Club . |
| 26 | After service in the RAF he became secretary of the Air Line Pilots Association , secretary of the Football Association and , finally chairman of the UK Olympics Committee . |
| 27 | Liverpool Competition captain Phil Davies ( 39 ) could not have been more impressed when he became part of the statistics in Rennie 's 7–52 haul as Neston made 151 from 55 overs . |
| 28 | Burridge cost the Palace £40,000 when he joined the club from Aston Villa , but he became part of the Palace 's best-ever defence , for the 24 League goals conceded in 1978–79 were the lowest for a single season in the club 's history while John 's 21 ‘ clean-sheets ’ that season was also the best-ever by a goalkeeper here . |
| 29 | There were still rumours that the Caldecott business methods were not above suspicion , but he became part of the establishment . |
| 30 | He had learned two valuable lessons when , in 1924 , he became head of the Bureau of Investigations . |