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 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | After his comeback as a serious musician , he planned to launch a book on the astonished and admiring world . |
| 8 | 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 ] . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He planned to steal a car — although he could not drive — and to strap a knife to his body before crashing the vehicle . |
| 11 | That same month , bowing to pressure , he agreed to appoint a Minister for the Coordination of Defence . |
| 12 | The defendant in Breed v. Cluett ( 1970 D.C. ) entered a contract whereby he agreed to sell a bungalow . |
| 13 | He agreed to send a representative , General Catroux , to negotiate with the giraudists . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He fought to control a sense of panic and reminded himself that he was a priest , a man ordained , sworn to God . |
| 18 | He says that he expected to pay a lot more . |
| 19 | He expected to find a drain . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | It was the way he asked get a cloth , that 's what he was saying , I was howling . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The Finnish official made one of several peculiar decisions when he failed to order a retake . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In doing so , he failed to see a pothole in the driveway , fell off and was injured . |
| 26 | His son was educated at Winchester and Magdalene College , Cambridge , where he failed to take a degree , and preferred fast cars and horse-racing to the solitude of the bush . |
| 27 | He was educated at Harrow , won an exhibition to New College , Oxford , where he failed to take a degree , and finally went to Trinity College , Dublin ( BA and MA , 1919 ) . |
| 28 | He failed to take a wicket at Sydney in the next Test , and helped Gibbs to a reciprocal three wickets in four balls by falling to the first he received . |
| 29 | James was in action again when he failed to hold a Hodgson hook at 67 and at 98 the batsmen also offered a chance to Matthew Maynard at slip that was not accepted . |
| 30 | Solicitations for military promotion could become quite pointed if the politician did not act quickly , as the Earl of Marchmont discovered when he failed to secure a promotion for Lieutenant James Wedderburn , whose uncle complained was |