Example sentences of "he [verb] [art] [adj] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he kens you too , then it will be a re-union , if not … ’ he made a clicking sound with his tongue . |
| 2 | To return to Lévi-Strauss , the point has been made that emotion need not be seen as obscure and incomprehensible , and that Freud 's importance is that he made a lasting contribution to explicating how the most obscure actions can be seen to make emotional sense . |
| 3 | At the same time , he made a good contribution on the difficulty in which Labour will find itself , if it is ever in government , with its massive plans for overspending . |
| 4 | It became clear to me at Blackpool that there was considerable support for Alec , partly because he made a good speech on foreign policy , partly because he took the chair at my meeting in his capacity as President of the National Union , and partly because of lobbying by back-benchers who saw him as the best compromise candidate . |
| 5 | After that no studio would touch him , although he made a good living as an actor and was even reunited with Gloria Swanson to recount more glorious days in Sunset Boulevard . |
| 6 | He made a good living from his extensive knowledge of breakbeats and old funk records , and eventually Beats International evolved quite naturally out of his love of DJing . |
| 7 | Alan was dominating in the air and solid and reliable in the tackle , so that he was a perfect defender for a team marshalled by Manager Dick Graham and he made a major contribution to Palace 's progress , deservedly becoming Palace 's captain while also earning England Under 23 honours . |
| 8 | Trials at his collieries of new ventilating methods , such as the fan and high-pressure steam jets , were widely discussed , and he made a major contribution to the most efficient method of mining coal simultaneously in adjacent seams . |
| 9 | The few surviving reports of cases heard in King 's Bench during the period he was a justice ( 1295–1316 ) do not suggest that he made a major contribution to the work of the court . |
| 10 | He made a major contribution to production methods in the railway 's workshops and to the use of improved metallurgy , in locomotive and rolling-stock construction , as well as being an advocate of the use of superheated steam and compound expansion to increase locomotive power and efficiency . |
| 11 | To their credit , Malone responded well and grabbed a deserved try from Colin Wilkinson when he made a typical burst into the back line and scored under the posts with aplomb . |
| 12 | He made a complete idiot of himself over that , and I swear it was n't done deliberately . |
| 13 | But last Thursday he made a spectacular return with a speech to party militants in Montlouis , on the outskirts of Tours , in which he called for a political ‘ big bang ’ in order to bring about the emergence of a new centre left party as part of a recomposition of the whole of the French political scene . |
| 14 | Last Thursday , however , he made a spectacular return with a speech to party militants in Montlouis , on the outskirts of Tours , in which he called for a political ‘ big bang ’ in order to bring about the emergence of a new centre-left party as part of a recomposition of the whole of the French political scene . |
| 15 | In City terms he could claim some credit , along with Peter Walker , as the father of modern unit trusts , while he made a personal profit of £1 million from the sale of Cannon Insurance , the UK vehicle of the disgraced Bernie Cornfeld . |
| 16 | He made a loud noise through his cavernous nostrils . |
| 17 | He made a mental note of the number of coaches and freight cars . |
| 18 | Smartly closing the regulator , he made a partial application of the steam brake , paused , released it , paused once again , then when he heard the wagon buffers face up , he made a full brake application . |
| 19 | Although he made a partial recovery in 1926 , he could only conduct the One-Year course at Wells , where he lived . |
| 20 | He made a disgusted noise in the back of his throat and looked away from her . |
| 21 | He made a similar reply to another member who insisted that radio should give better publicity to what MPs said in the House : it was not , he said , the job of his Ministry to build up the reputation of individual MPs . |
| 22 | He made a similar point about a rise in salary for municipal employees : there was no possibility of seriously debating that unless the local Assembly knew what they might otherwise spend the money on , and what the total budget for the municipalities was — and information on both points was not forthcoming . |
| 23 | He made a pathetic attempt at a smile . |
| 24 | Instead , he went to the Gramophone Company 's factory at Hayes , and on 28 April he made a private record of the speech , proposing a toast to the future of the paper . |
| 25 | He made a guilty grimace of assent . |
| 26 | He made a half-hearted move towards me , but I gave him no encouragement . |
| 27 | ‘ I think neither of us had a choice for a while , ’ she offered , and he made a slight movement of denial , as if he did n't want to believe it . |
| 28 | By his own account , after much expenditure of charcoal and years of failure , he discovered a powder through which he made a successful projection of sufficient gold to pay off his creditors . |
| 29 | Just about the best of these over timber , he made a successful debut over fences at Carlisle and further improvement seems likely over today 's longer trip . |
| 30 | And lately , he made a successful debut as an after-dinner speaker on the north of England circuit . |