Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet when he made to take a line of stones he had surrounded from the board , the boy placed his hand over Tuan 's , stopping him , lifting his hand so that he might study the position , his face creased into a frown , as if trying to take in what he had done wrong . |
| 2 | He made to shine the torch into her face , but she pushed his hand down . |
| 3 | As he made to leave the chamber , Deems said , ‘ If you perceive that the Emperor does not trust you , why continue faithful ? ’ |
| 4 | He made to close the door . |
| 5 | Look at the mess he made making a cup of tea . |
| 6 | He also — as a by-product of the grant he made to repay the monks for the loss of their plate following his aid to Rufus in 1095 — provided money for the rebuilding of the cathedral choir on a greatly enlarged scale . |
| 7 | The difficulty with writing it down was that it became real to the extent of being in a book , there were two lives , the one in the book and the one which he lived to collect the details for the book one ; he could go further in his head than on the page , the words slowed him down . |
| 8 | Author of The Road to Serfdom , published — impossibly ill-timed — on the eve of Labour 's great victory in 1945 , he lived to see the crumbling of communism ; the destruction , as no doubt he saw it , of collectivism 's inner citadel . |
| 9 | He lived to see the headquarters of the organization to which he had devoted his life established in purpose-built premises on the site at the National Water Sports Centre . |
| 10 | Deteriorating eyesight compelled him to give up painting in 1975 , but he lived to see the beginning of a major revival of his reputation . |
| 11 | He lived to tell the tale . |
| 12 | I do n't think he realised learning the facts of life was precisely what most of us would do if we stopped demonstrating and went back to bed . |
| 13 | But I said I knew you and did he want to leave a message . |
| 14 | None of the items he checked affected the probe — though he gave the chess set a suspicious glance — until he moved to the wall hangings . |
| 15 | Some time afterwards he chanced to see a hobby-horse being ridden along a nearby road , and was struck with the notion of making one for himself . |
| 16 | I replied to him that if he cared to submit the List to any representative group of Jews , he would hear their ‘ no ’ from Downing Street to Golders Green . |
| 17 | Outside in London , if he cared to leave the flat , he would have found an atmosphere , an edge , that any man of twenty-five with money in his pocket and an afternoon like that behind him should have delighted in . |
| 18 | Long may he remain to provide an exemplar . |
| 19 | The following night the moon would be full and he planned to take a force of eighteen jeeps directly on to the airfield in two columns and shoot up anything they found . |
| 20 | He planned to play the Florida mini-tours , did so without much success , tried some events in and around New England in the summers , bounced around some more , then finally got his USPGA Tour card on his third try . |
| 21 | Cover up … how he planned to burn the evidence . |
| 22 | In 1936 Trinity gave him a scholarship and he planned to study the Elizabethans , but when the Spanish civil war broke out on 18 July 1936 , on a sudden impulse and without even saying goodbye to his family he left for Dieppe . |
| 23 | Waldegrave said that the need to promote the public understanding of science would be addressed in the forthcoming White Paper ( policy document ) on science and technology and that he planned to launch a campaign to ‘ evangelize ’ science . |
| 24 | After his comeback as a serious musician , he planned to launch a book on the astonished and admiring world . |
| 25 | Shen had returned from exile in the USA in August and had been arrested on Sept. 1 as he planned to launch a Beijing office of the US-based Democracy for China Fund [ see p. 39095 ] . |
| 26 | General Nocenzi had offered his office for the young Prince 's use , and it was there , at the very top of the vast , three-hundred-level fortress , that he planned to meet the boy . |
| 27 | There were plans to revive it and turn it into an Ulster Loyalist pressure group when a leading member , Archibald Whitmore , an ex-member of the Ulster Volunteer Force , announced to influential people at the Bath Club that he planned to develop the BF in Ireland along the same lines as the movement in 1914 . |
| 28 | He said he planned to write a book about the 1989 protests and that he had no plans to go overseas , as several other released political prisoners have done . |
| 29 | He planned to steal a car — although he could not drive — and to strap a knife to his body before crashing the vehicle . |
| 30 | On the whole , the unpleasant carvings and occasional disjointed skeletons he passed held no fears for Hrun . |