Example sentences of "[adj] he made [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Stan Cardwell MBE , co-founder of the North-East ramblers ' association , said : ‘ His style was one of cooperation , not confrontation , and through this he made many friends , not least among the farming community , where he was regarded highly for his expertise on rights of way matters . |
| 2 | He was given an ancient , unreliable car and in this he made long journeys and addressed crowded meetings . |
| 3 | As dean of Winchester he was an active servant of James I. Between 1616 and 1621 he made repeated visits to Scotland on royal business , accompanying the king in 1617 , and attending the general assembly in Perth ( 1618 ) in support of the king 's ‘ Five Articles ’ of ceremonial reform . |
| 4 | In 1963 he made few changes to Adenauer 's cabinet and emphasised the element of continuity in government , though his personal style was very different to that of ‘ the old man ’ . |
| 5 | From 1920 he made regular appearances on Broadway and on tour in America , finally achieving fame in 1921 as the temple priest in The Green Goddess with George Arliss [ q.v . ] . |
| 6 | Between June 1958 and December 1960 he made eight trips to Algeria . |
| 7 | A federal appeals court judge here has affirmed a 1990 lower court decision and ruled that Koons illegally copied a photograph from a greeting card when in 1987 he made four sculptures of a couple holding eight German shepherd puppies . |
| 8 | Dressed up in his fireproof overalls , he was certainly going to earn some of the millions he made this morning . |
| 9 | Then in 1773–4 he made two designs for a bridge to cross the Severn in Stourport , Worcestershire , the first to be of timber with stone abutments and the second a single arch of brick but resting on a cast-iron centre . |
| 10 | In Edward III 's wars in Scotland in the 1330s he made great use of hobelars and mounted archers who were paid more and required more expensive equipment than foot soldiers . |
| 11 | Kamara had no great love for Scottish strikers ; in April 1988 he made legal history as the first English League player to be fined in court for an on-pitch assault . |