Example sentences of "he [verb] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | SOCCER player Mickey Thomas was attacked with a hammer and screwdriver as he made love to a married woman in his car , a court heard yesterday . |
| 2 | She had seen his face when he made love to the piano . |
| 3 | SOCCER player Mickey Thomas was attacked with a hammer and screwdriver as he made love with a married woman in his car , a court heard yesterday . |
| 4 | The first thing he did he made friends amongst the young men in the college . |
| 5 | He made jibes at the expense of more energetic writers , saying that they were cheap and did not rewrite enough . |
| 6 | The College 's first Principal ( or Professor , as he and his more immediate successors were called ) published his first proposals for a veterinary school in England in 1788 , but it was not until two years later that he made contact with the Odiham Agricultural Society . |
| 7 | Through his research in Norway he made contact with the former secret agent Bernhard Bergersen who was keen to ensure that the Norwegian facts were correct . |
| 8 | He made contact with the ANC and struck a deal . |
| 9 | Through the intercession of the Serbs in Vojvodina he made contact with the representative of the European powers , and especially with the Austrians and Russians . |
| 10 | Yeah delayed reaction and I 'll tell you Gemmell was lucky then because he er he made contact with the referee in making his protest and they normally stamp down on that one but Mr Kirby has been er a lenient official today . |
| 11 | It 's claimed he made contact with the KGB on a vacation trip to Moscow during his second year at Oxford ; an argument that certainly does n't wash with Jesse Malkin . |
| 12 | When Lindbergh flew the Atlantic , he made notes with a Waterman ; Admiral Byrd 's expedition to the Antarctic was equipped with Watermans filled with non-freezing ink ; and Lloyd George signed the Versailles Treaty with , you guessed it , a Waterman . |
| 13 | He was so distraught by the ‘ vernal desolation of avarice ’ after 1809 at Lodore and Manesty that ‘ dreading farther mischief , ’ he made drawings of the lake margin from Stable Hills to Isthmus . |
| 14 | Similar preoccupations were at the back of the mind of Hilary Frome himself , as , with the front of his mind , he made conversation with the overdressed parents of one of the boarders . |
| 15 | West Ham 's first-team coach angrily refutes the charge that he made V-signs at the lout during the 5-1 victory . |
| 16 | He made transcripts of the fiction , and of all the other major documents . |
| 17 | He made patterns in the space , first up and down , then diagonally across , always within the open area between the stream and the thicket . |
| 18 | And the examiner was arrested only after he made passes at a military policeman 's wife . |
| 19 | He made rounds throughout the night , checking on the oxen and buffaloes tethered in the field . |
| 20 | He made fun of the pseudo-learned , bureaucratic speech of an inspector which began like this : |
| 21 | The next day he made enquiries about the journey . |
| 22 | He made policy with the aid of an Executive Council which was composed entirely of senior officials . |
| 23 | He did n't tell long stories like Patsy did , or wistful tales like Dekko Moore about the time he made harnesses for the Lords of the Soil somewhere down in Meath . |
| 24 | Back in Scotland , he made measurements of the velocity of light with James Young [ q.v. ] , but their result came out somewhat higher than was later accepted . |
| 25 | Coleridge was overwhelmed , as he made plain in a letter to Joseph Cottle : ‘ T. Poole 's opinion of Wordsworth is — that he is the greatest Man , he ever knew — I coincide . ’ |
| 26 | How he was so oppressive , how he was so strong and hairy and his voice was so loud and when he washed of a morning he made splashes in the wash-basin and blew his nose into the water , both nostrils at once into the soapy water and … |
| 27 | Shanaz 's relations asked their MP to intervene , and while he made representations to the Minister with special responsibility for Immigration ( Shirley Summerskill , Britain 's representative at the United Nations Status of Women Conference ) she was kept in detention . |
| 28 | He made use of the Cabinet-committee structure as a filter for business , though he chaired very few committees himself ( the main exceptions were the Economic Policy and Defence committees ) . |
| 29 | The same horseman , a stallion-leader , gave another instance of how he made use of the horse 's hypersensitive power of smell . |
| 30 | He made use of the new Dover–Calais cable to transmit information , which he sold to clients , between the London and Paris stock exchanges . |