Example sentences of "he [verb] [art] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Danny was heavier by at least two stone , and his upright stance made him appear the taller of the two . |
| 2 | It was usual for him to wheedle a few from any European who stopped . ) |
| 3 | Spencer managed to persuade Tony Bianchi to let him have an hour-and-a-half in a Harvard , by way of working up to his most impressive taildragger to date … |
| 4 | He was pleasant enough in general , though most people who met him formed the vaguest of ideas that he might be dangerous in some unspecified way . |
| 5 | ‘ Looks like it , ’ Sarella returned , trying not to let him get the better of her this time . |
| 6 | I urged him to have a few of the young daughters of the gentlefolk before he established the provisional government at the Smolny Institute . |
| 7 | It enabled him to ask the bluntest of questions in the politest of tones and to disguise his opinion behind the blandest of smiles . |
| 8 | The first reason for McElroy 's unease is that President Reagan has just told him to prepare a brief for doing away with his own job — and that of most of the other 1100 people on the administrator 's staff . |
| 9 | And then , he made the first of his mistakes . |
| 10 | Pérez escaped from his residence just before it was surrounded , and went to a private television station from which he made the first of four broadcasts to the nation repudiating the coup . |
| 11 | Next door , the Archdeacon 's shower was not quite hot enough , but he made the best of it . |
| 12 | Whether Gould greeted all of his contacts with a similarly gauche introduction or not , he made the best of his time in Sydney and called on , among others , the missionary Bishop of Australia , William Broughton , and Alexander MacLeay , first President of the Australian Museum at Sydney . |
| 13 | In 1910 he made the last of his great journeys across China , travelling from Honan in Central China to Russian Turkestan , a distance of 3,750 miles in 174 days . |
| 14 | He made the last of his 51 appearances against Scotland in 1984 . |
| 15 | He made the most of his superb wind section , used the extra clarity of the strings to underline the richness of the harmony , and encouraged the brass to cut through the texture and pin down the rhythm as , for example , in the exhilarating chorus ‘ Achieved is the Glorious Work ’ . |
| 16 | He made the most of the clear patches of brilliant blue sky fleetingly appearing through the white storm clouds . |
| 17 | Now he made the most of the proffered opportunities , even putting the notion of a third book to the back of his mind meantime . |
| 18 | With neighbouring diners sitting too close to have a conversation without being overheard , D'Arcy contented himself with the family small talk whilst he made the most of the lobster fricassée . |
| 19 | Lord Charles Beresford continued his campaign against the Admiralty that had originated in his personal feud with Admiral Fisher , and he made the most of Churchill 's unhappy relations with his admirals . |
| 20 | He made the most of things . ’ |
| 21 | Maxwell-Fyfe replied that virulent anti-Americanism was confined to a small minority , but he made the most of the opportunity to spell out the extent of British alarm over what the Americans were doing or might do in the Far East . |
| 22 | He succeeded the latter as auditor of the exchequer of receipt and writer of tallies . |
| 23 | ( Perhaps he mistook the seven on his DME indicator for a three ? ) |
| 24 | He offers the following among paraphrases of " After dinner , the senator made a speech " : [ 1 ] When dinner was over , the senator made a speech [ 2 ] A speech was made by the senator after dinner . |
| 25 | And playing alongside white men he endured a decade-and-a-half of bitter scorn from people of his own race , in what he now recognises as racism in reverse . |
| 26 | He expected no less for the children in the classroom . |
| 27 | It all went according to plan for her and I think he expected the same for me . |
| 28 | He said it was important that the pace of change was ‘ right ’ but refused to say when he expected the last of the doomed homes to say goodbye to its last resident . |
| 29 | He became a regular for lunch and dinner after his wife died of cancer three years ago . |
| 30 | He became the first from his club to be capped , in the Second Test of the recent tour of Australia in Hastings ' injury absence , and he played for Scotland ‘ A ’ against Spain in Madrid on September 12 . |