Example sentences of "he [vb past] a [noun sg] at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He made a mistake at the top of the hill in the Gold Cup , ’ Gaselee said , ‘ but you can take it from me , he did n't have a hard race . |
| 2 | Also , all of seventeen , he made a pass at the attractive , sophisticated casting director , Daphne Rye — the most influential casting director in Great Britain . |
| 3 | He made a birdie at the next , but just missed one at the last and lost by a shot . |
| 4 | After the ultimate collapse of the last-minute French initiative [ see below ] , he made a statement at the request of the Security Council on Jan. 15 , saying : " As … the world stands poised between peace and war , I most sincerely appeal to President Saddam Hussein to turn the course of events away from catastrophe and toward a new era of justice and harmony … |
| 5 | ‘ We 're staying ! ’ shouted one man in the crowd that greeted the Soviet leader when he laid a wreath at the Eternal Flame . |
| 6 | He laid a wreath at the tomb of the Ayatollah Khomeini . |
| 7 | The president was heckled by ex-servicemen as he laid a wreath at the Vietnam memorial . |
| 8 | Walesa also travelled to Bavaria , where he laid a wreath at the Dachau former Nazi concentration camp , and to Berlin , and left via Frankfurt-an-der-Oder where he held talks on the problems of delays at the border crossings . |
| 9 | He passed a year at the new University of Marburg , whose ruler favoured the Reformation and where , in order to proceed to the translation of the Old Testament , Tyndale studied Hebrew , which was not then taught in Oxford or Cambridge . |
| 10 | Gleeson equalised for London when he met a cross at the far post from his fellow winger Wyke , but Ralph then gave Oxford their first win since they beat Cheam on October 21 . |
| 11 | He became a horticulturalist at the White House in Washington , ‘ among the Bushes ’ , Bloch remarks . |
| 12 | The naval officer was based on an ancient Greek actor Euripedes , because he became a god at the end of his plays and settled all the disasters which had taken place . |
| 13 | When he came here from Russia , he was penniless , which is why he became a doorman at the Ritz . |
| 14 | He became a student at the Royal Academy in 1868 . |
| 15 | He got a job at the grocer 's shop , dogsbody work , sweeping up and delivering , but he saved every penny he could till he had enough to put down , with a loan from the Bank , to buy the place up . |
| 16 | He found a place at the end of AA ( for Ash ) near the door . |
| 17 | ‘ Recognise that ’ — he jerked a thumb at the nearby flint-faced water tower poking its head above the railway line , the pride of its engineer , Thomas Crampton . |
| 18 | ‘ Yer man here — ’ he jerked a thumb at the bath' — lost most of his fingernails trying to hang on . |
| 19 | ’ He jerked a thumb at the Intensive Care doors . |
| 20 | With a flourish he drew a line at the bottom , screwed on the top of his fountain pen and hooked it into a buckle on his braces . |
| 21 | His eyes made a swift study of her face , before he cast a glance at the sky . |
| 22 | He played a song at the end of the interview , and all he said to the band was : ‘ When I kick , that means I 'm going to start , and when I kick my leg again , that means I 'm going to stop . ’ |
| 23 | Three months later , after his First was announced with the other Oxford and Cambridge examination results in The Times , he received a telegram at the house at St-Cloud . |
| 24 | A POLICE officer wept yesterday as he told a jury at the Old Bailey , in London , of the night his colleague was shot dead at point-blank range . |
| 25 | Kasuya 's fears proved to be well founded , and he dropped a bombshell at the 1989 meeting of the IWC 's Scientific Committee , when he revealed to the Small Cetaceans Subcommittee the staggering increase in the number of Dall 's porpoise killed in the harpoon fishery based on Iwate Prefecture . |
| 26 | He dropped a fellow at the bat of an eyelid . |
| 27 | He spared a glance at the ragged specimens of humanity crouched against the wall and wondered how many of them had once been prosperous farmers or innkeepers or tradesmen . |
| 28 | He threw a fig at the flying angel which Gabriel was quick witted enough to catch one-handed . |
| 29 | He opened a cupboard at the far end to reveal a dartboard . |
| 30 | Around 1839 the family moved to Coniston where , in 1840 , he obtained a start at the copper mine doing sundry or day work and renting one of the mine cottages . |