Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [art] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | That is the implication of a very suggestive comment that he made at the time to Edgar Faure : " At certain periods there are some problems that have no solution . " |
| 2 | He made for a line of scrub between two gates and waited until the street outside was fairly clear , then climbed the railings and dropped down . |
| 3 | As soon as we had cleared customs he made for a bank of telephones , and when he rejoined me he was smiling . |
| 4 | A snow-covered hedge loomed up ahead of him and he made for the shelter of it . |
| 5 | Then , ignoring her indignant gasp , he made for the chest of drawers with the clear intention of searching that also . |
| 6 | Smuts 's own notes for the great speech he made on the occasion of the dinner in the Royal Gallery ( see above ) of which over 1 , 000 , 000 copies were sold in the English language alone . |
| 7 | All this on top of the irony of an innocent request he made to a man with a radio listening to the cricket immediately he arrived in England after spending time with his family in Barbados . |
| 8 | Will he tell the House a little more about what representations he made to the Government of India on those important matters ? |
| 9 | Is that what he has been seeking to negotiate in the references that he made to the limitations on deficits ? |
| 10 | The unrivalled versatility of ‘ The Brig ’ was shown by the contributions he made to the solution of a number of machine ciphers during World War II . |
| 11 | In the third of our series on major Scottish architects , David Walker describes the career of William Burn ( 1789–1870 ) and the important contribution he made to the planning of the Victorian country house |
| 12 | Defeated election candidate Paul Rayner has honoured a pledge he made during the campaign to members of Middlesbrough 's Muslim community by writing to the new Home Secretary with details of long delays experienced by would-be immigrants . |
| 13 | He took with him a recording of the female whales at play which he made off the Azores as part of his post-graduate efforts to analyse sperm whale sounds . |
| 14 | He was tall , very fair , reasonably attractive , and when he made with the charm at hospital parties they lapped it up . |
| 15 | ULSTER Unionist MP John Taylor today refused to apologise for controversial remarks he made about the murder of Roman Catholics by loyalists . |
| 16 | Er , I think it would be far better to have a streamlined regulatory system which would make the much cheaper and more efficient and I 'm glad that the honourable gentleman seems to be agreeing and perhaps he could try and persuade his honourable mefem member on the front bench that legislation , primary legislation is needed , I 'm glad to hear he 's working on it erm on on the second on the second point he made about the number of regulations , I 'm not sure I would agree with him that the best way of resolving this problem is to have less regulations er er though I would agree with the general er thrust of what he might be saying and that is that if the regulatory system was to concentrate on promoting higher professional standards and have less emphasis on rules and regulations then I think that would help . |
| 17 | The points he made in an address to the Royal African Society in London in 1975 are worth summarizing here . |
| 18 | The Slovak Prime Minister , Jan Carnogursky , confirmed a statement he made in an interview with the French paper Libération that Slovakia aimed to be in the European Communities as an independent state by 2000 . |
| 19 | Besides , it makes more sense to me to believe your brother was the victim of one of the many enemies I 'm sure he made in the course of his life . |
| 20 | It was an entry to international football as perfectly timed as any of the crisp , balanced tackles he made in the course of his remarkable playing career . |
| 21 | In the speech which he made in the House of Lords debate on the bill , Lord Brougham pointed out that one half of the cases where ‘ serviceable process ’ had been used were settled before even an appearance was entered . |
| 22 | The German escapement action Stein employed in all the pianos that he made after the piano in the vis-á-vis instrument can be seen as a transformation of the Cristofori-Silbermann piano action . |
| 23 | As a boy he lived through a Depression inside an industrial monster clanking and heaving its passage through an increasingly ungrateful century . |
| 24 | For four years of his early life he lived at the court of King Philip II , to whom he did feudal homage in 1214 . |
| 25 | He lived at the settlement for helping London boys , Cambridge House . |
| 26 | He reckoned he lived at the corner of or something , so , when I asked him where he lived ? |
| 27 | David Nicholson says he lived on the end of the racecourse for 22 years and his father lived there longer than that … for him Cheltenham is the best three days racing anywhere in the world and he loves it |
| 28 | It began : 'About 100 years ago there was a small boy called Fred and he lived on an island with his father and mother and nearby lived his uncle and aunt . |
| 29 | He lived with a farmer at Berkhamsted , Hertfordshire , but in 1785 the farmer died and soon afterwards Peter died too . |
| 30 | When this second marriage broke down in 1963 , Simenon was already having an affair with another maid , Teresa Sburelin , with whom he lived for the rest of his life . |