Example sentences of "he [verb] a [adj] [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he made a partial recovery in 1926 , he could only conduct the One-Year course at Wells , where he lived . |
| 2 | He made a disgusted noise in the back of his throat and looked away from her . |
| 3 | After only playing a couple of games for the Anglo-Scots , due to injury , he made a successful impact in the ‘ B ’ game at Murrayfield , where the back row went well enough to be picked en block for the Reds , the junior side in the Scottish trial . |
| 4 | Underlining the British government 's commitment to link aid and democratic practices , he made a strong statement in favour of multiparty democracy , but appeared to hold back from criticism of Kenya 's human rights record , saying at a press conference that " when you look at other countries in Africa , Kenya 's record is good " . |
| 5 | ‘ He made a serious noise in the Gold Cup and was operated on . |
| 6 | He made a useful start in helping his club to victory in the Cardiff High School Old Boys Sevens where they beat a Nationwide VII 40–14 in the final . |
| 7 | Rudd admits that he made a big mistake in designing an H16 engine , a layout previously used only in aviation , for the new three-litre formula in 1966 . |
| 8 | He made a quiet debut in 1959 in Pilote , a comic magazine , and a book was published in 1961 . |
| 9 | The caressing hand stilled , as he stared down into her face , reading the message of its new and raw vulnerability , and he made a harsh sound in his throat . |
| 10 | For one who was nervous with aristocrats , it was unusual that he made a special friend in the diocese of the hereditary lay leader of the Anglo-Catholics in England : the Earl of Halifax at Garrowby , whom he would have preferred to Churchill as a war leader . |
| 11 | He made a special entry in his journal about ten unemployed men marching from Bootle to London , with seven who were going from London to Leeds ; they stayed for one night and were provided with tea and breakfast . |
| 12 | He lived a great deal in his fantasies and he enjoyed these . |
| 13 | Therefore , in the bleak aftermath of war , he lived a hand-to-mouth existence in the less attractive areas of London . |
| 14 | The idea which has swallowed Kirillov is suicide , not suicide for the common cause of the quintet as Dostoevsky first proposed , but to achieve a metaphysical and religious purpose ; and thus he plays a big part in the transformation of a neat political generation-gap story into a larger , more complicated object . |
| 15 | From his position at the Paris museum , he promulgated a new approach in which animals would be classified not by their external appearance but by internal resemblances that could only be revealed by dissection . |
| 16 | He consulted a dun-coloured file in front of him . |
| 17 | Without any proper party organisation he fought a brilliant campaign in 1965 , canvassing the French throughout August ‘ on every beach from Dunkirk to Menton ’ . |
| 18 | Mr Ebbert warned that the company would have to continue operating at reduced output levels for the immediate future , even though he expected a modest improvement in total UK new car sales this year — a rise of perhaps about 7 per cent to 1.7 million . |
| 19 | He announced a significant improvement in city-wide maths scores in 1991 , a decline in the drop-out rate from 20.8% to 17.2% which at least made a bad situation less appalling . |
| 20 | It was the great fire of London in 1666 which gave him his opening , however , and he became a prominent figure in the rebuilding of the city over the next decade . |
| 21 | In 1926 he became a commissioned officer in the Salvation Army , a commission he resigned in 1944 when his interest in spiritual matters had developed beyond the bounds of Salvationism . |
| 22 | He was undermanager ( 1841 ) and manager ( 1844 ) at Monkwearmouth , then the deepest mine in Britain ; c .1845 he became a managing partner in Washington colliery , and sole owner of Unsworth . |
| 23 | He became a key figure in the early 1970s when the public employment service was modernised and Jobcentres as we know them today were first established . |
| 24 | He became a civil servant in Jordan and then part-owner in a Beirut hotel . |
| 25 | He became a civil servant in Milan , and died in 1858 , aged 74 . |
| 26 | He became a junior official in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in 1840 , but was never a promising candidate for promotion in the government service . |
| 27 | He became a supreme story-teller in dance , but kept his passion for experiment , too , often disconcerting his admirers and yet still gaining their acceptance . |
| 28 | He became a Swedish citizen in 1937 in order to take up the offer of teaching posts in the Royal Opera School and the Music High School ( later renamed the Royal Academy of Music ) , Stockholm , where he had great influence on a generation of singers , including Birgit Nilsson and Jussi Björling , whom he taught privately . |
| 29 | After university , he became a free-lance journalist in London , writing articles for most of the leading literary magazines . |
| 30 | He admitted receiving a total of DM500,000 since he became a double agent in 1982 . |