Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] a [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 Look at the mess he made making a cup of tea .
3 But I said I knew you and did he want to leave a message .
4 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 .
5 Long may he remain to provide an exemplar .
6 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 .
7 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 .
8 After his comeback as a serious musician , he planned to launch a book on the astonished and admiring world .
9 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 ] .
10 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 .
11 He planned to steal a car — although he could not drive — and to strap a knife to his body before crashing the vehicle .
12 That same month , bowing to pressure , he agreed to appoint a Minister for the Coordination of Defence .
13 The defendant in Breed v. Cluett ( 1970 D.C. ) entered a contract whereby he agreed to sell a bungalow .
14 In fact he was so impressed he agreed to make an allowance towards James 's student fees at St Bartholomew 's , but it had not stretched to comfortable accommodation .
15 He agreed to send a representative , General Catroux , to negotiate with the giraudists .
16 Liberal Democrat MP Simon Hughes on the Lamont affair WHEN he goes to see a Shakespeare play he wants to know what happens at the end .
17 And then Jason yeah and they 're like saying , they say look it was an early seventies crime you 've got ta help us , how would you handle it because they 're not allowed to use fast cars and guns and he goes find a country house
18 As a gesture of goodwill , it should be suggested to the purchaser that he offers to sign a confidentiality undertaking in favour of the vendors covering such information .
19 He fought to control a sense of panic and reminded himself that he was a priest , a man ordained , sworn to God .
20 He says that he expected to pay a lot more .
21 The Labour spokesman called for a quick decision on RUC requests for more manpower and Mr Brooke replied that he expected to make an announcement very soon .
22 He expected to find a drain .
23 Head full of academic knowledge but nothing else — and before anybody could bat an eyelid , he applied to sit an exam in London , and the next thing he was in the Metropolitan Police .
24 While still working on the second volume of the Society 's guidebook , at a meeting of the Zoological Society on 16 June 1830 , he applied to undertake a series of drawings of the parrot collection .
25 It was the way he asked get a cloth , that 's what he was saying , I was howling .
26 Gabriel obeyed at once , and while riding along was thinking so hard about the shooting that in the darkness he failed to notice a man walking along the road to Casterbridge .
27 The Finnish official made one of several peculiar decisions when he failed to order a retake .
28 Lennie Lawrence , Middlesbrough 's manager , confirmed his interest at the weekend , saying he was prepared to take the matter to a transfer tribunal if he failed to agree a fee with Keegan .
29 He faced growing opposition , even among those who had been his closest supporters , particularly when he failed to honour an undertaking made in 1979 to his party supporters that he would relinquish office in 1990 after the first 10 years of independence .
30 In doing so , he failed to see a pothole in the driveway , fell off and was injured .
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