Example sentences of "he [vb past] [pron] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made himself agreeable to the earl 's squires in the stableyard , and kept his ears open for any revealing mentions of Robert Bossu 's tastes , temperament and interests , and what he garnered was encouraging . |
| 2 | He made himself ill with the worry . |
| 3 | He made it 6-3 with a 90 break , and after 52 minutes of tactical battling potted the pink for 7-3 and ran away with the next to go five up with six to play . |
| 4 | He made it 6-3 with a 90 break , and after 52 minutes of tactical battling potted the pink for 7-3 and ran away with the next to go five up with six to play . |
| 5 | But Under-21 boss Craig Brown said : ‘ I felt Darren was unfortunate , but he made it easy for the official by a slight push . |
| 6 | He made it possible for the duke and his eight-months pregnant duchess to rush back from Germany to Kensington Palace for the birth , putting up the royal cavalcade at his home in Shooter 's Hill on the way . |
| 7 | That was how he built something extra into the programme . ’ |
| 8 | Although making mo' movies is his main focus now , the comedian recently returned to stand-up comedy because , he said , he found himself unhappy without an outlet for his anger at social injustice . |
| 9 | He found himself involved in an argument about silver wrapping-paper only serving to accentuate the paltriness of a gift . |
| 10 | he found himself deep in the shit ! |
| 11 | Benn was so impressed with Ceauşescu 's Romania that he found nothing odd in the following suggestion from Bruno Pittermann , the former chairman of Kreisky 's Austrian Socialist Party : ‘ Pittermann said he would like to see parliamentary links with Romania , Poland and Yugoslavia , and to study their election process and procedure . |
| 12 | Hackney racing manager Michael Marks , who said he found nothing wrong with the running of the race , will remember Black Thursday for other reasons . |
| 13 | Churchill was prime minister , and though he found it politic in the face of American and Labour pressure to allow negotiations about India 's constitutional future to go on , at the same time he ensured that all such negotiations came to nought . |
| 14 | When he replaced the receiver he regarded his subordinate for a moment and then smiled . |
| 15 | Without missing a wing beat , he bore her high above the city and flew on . |
| 16 | He used it all on the pond , I reckon . |
| 17 | He beat me 3–0 in a five-frame match , 2–0 when we doubled the money and then we played a final frame for double-your-money again and when he reached the yellow he had already won the match . |
| 18 | Pressed more closely he told me that for a number of years Laura had lived an almost schizophrenic life , symbolized by two quite different wardrobes — one for her parents , ‘ the Goody-Twoshoes suits ’ , the other for what she believed to be her real self . |
| 19 | He told me all about the background to the picture , what Rembrandt probably felt like at that time , what he was trying to say , how he said it . |
| 20 | When I was getting better , he told me some of the local news . |
| 21 | He surveyed it all from the safety of the trees . |
| 22 | And he listened , he would n't really say what he had been doing , but later he showed me some of the things he 'd done in the Hebrides . |
| 23 | His pictures vary in style : in his later days he showed himself capable of the common sort of conventionally flattering portrait , but , particularly from his earlier years in London , there exists a body of work demonstrating his great talent for lively detail and natural rather than conventional compositions . |
| 24 | There was only the French chef Pierre , whistling between his teeth as he pounded something aromatic in a pestle , and a couple of aproned maids bustling about with what looked like preparations for breakfast . |
| 25 | He stated himself pleased with the general appearance and appointments of the unit . |
| 26 | Once , he threw them wide in a gesture of protest . |
| 27 | As he handed her one of the glasses their eyes met briefly , and it occurred to Lisa , for just a fleeting instant , that he was feeling almost as nervous as she was . |
| 28 | He shook himself free of the hood and pulled the shawl off his head , his face burning in humiliation . |
| 29 | Deeply attached to it , he served it first as a scholar , obtaining first-class honours in both parts of the historical tripos ( 1933 and 1934 ) ; second , as research fellow ( 1938–45 ) , receiving a Ph.D . |
| 30 | He folded it open at a page of stocks and shares , and as he was looking down the lists he gave the man two dollars . |