Example sentences of "he [verb] a [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Ebussu'ud Efendi , by this time Mufti , completed his great in 973/1566 , not only was he given a rise in salary and robes of honour to mark the occasion , but also all his students were accepted as . |
| 2 | Later in life he made a trilogy of films about the theatre , of which The Golden Coach is one of the most ravishing . |
| 3 | One symptom of the pope 's embarrassment is that for the first and last time he made a concession to Anselm on the subject of the primacy of Canterbury , which we must deal with later . |
| 4 | Henry and he made a treaty of alliance , agreeing that Richard should be betrothed to one of the Count 's daughters and that , when married , they should be granted the duchy of Aquitaine . |
| 5 | He made a mess of things in the park , but it 's the first time he 's got it wrong . |
| 6 | Oh they 're okay erm just one thing , erm I went to the dentist up over there in Street , and he made a mess of filling two teeth . |
| 7 | He made a likeness of Helen of Troy which convinced all who came to sacrifice there that the Trojan War had been well fought ; and for this famous portrait , Zeuxis had lined up the young women of Croton , and taking an ear from one , the set of chin from another , the legs , the arms and stomach and so forth of others , he had assembled his divine beauty . |
| 8 | Vuk 's next project was a Serbian dictionary , and to help him in collecting words to include in it he made a journey to Serbia in 1816 on his way back to Vienna , calling on his old friend the archimandrite Lukian Mušički in the monastery at Šišatovac in the Fruška Gora . |
| 9 | So he made a couple of phone calls to Osnabrück-he found he 'd been given a room with an Engineer regiment-then sipped a lager until train time . |
| 10 | ’ There could be no doubt that when a garage proprietor sold petrol to a customer he made a contract of sale ( i.e. of the petrol ) with the customer , since the customer agreed to pay a ‘ money consideration , ’ the price . |
| 11 | Then he made a sign to Sikes to tell Nancy to leave the room . |
| 12 | But erm , so she got erm she , he made a bit of money I think , I think I went rash and put a fiver on . |
| 13 | Her father accompanied her into the dining-room and though he made a pretence of eating , he barely touched the food on his plate . |
| 14 | In September of the following year he made a trip to Furness Abbey to sketch , and recorded , ‘ I was treated in a more kind and liberal manner than I have been by any people in the North of Lancashire and Westmorland , by Mr. Atkinson , his mother and sisters ’ ! |
| 15 | He made a click of disapproval loud enough for the young man to hear . |
| 16 | He knows he made a mistake at Ibrox but he will have wiped it from his mind . |
| 17 | He made a noise of agreement . |
| 18 | And he made a number of management changes which reinforced the impression that Eurotunnel had become a company capable of acting in the best interests of bankers and shareholders and standing up to the demands of the Anglo-French contracting consortium . |
| 19 | For example , though he made a number of proposals to increase public participation his overriding concern for expediting procedures forced him to compress these into a impracticable time-scale . |
| 20 | On his first visit to Sir Stephen Fox 's Manor Farm House , King William III described the house as perfectly fine and he made a number of visits there . |
| 21 | Once the regime began to crumble , he made a number of proforma but symbolically important concessions to appease republican sensibilities and to brush up his republican image , which had been tarnished by the RPF adventure . |
| 22 | Stalin 's account also misrepresented the Austro-Marxist case , and he made a number of mistakes indicating his unfamiliarity with the subject . |
| 23 | He made a lot of money there . |
| 24 | Charles no longer bothered to hide his disappointment , but his salute was impeccable and he made a lot of noise with his about turn and exit . |
| 25 | He made a lot of sense talking about that tip and obviously persuaded people to change their viewpoint . ’ |
| 26 | He made a lot of soundings , appointed a special Cabinet committee to go into the subject , and held a special Cabinet to receive its report . |
| 27 | He made a lot of changes . |
| 28 | After that , he made a lot of enemies . |
| 29 | I do know that he outlived Great-Aunt Jane and he made a lot of trouble by claiming items of property to which he had no right . |
| 30 | He was a lot in the news this autumn as he made a lot of goals both in the league as well as in the UEFA-cup . |