Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | almost every he pass he made had an incorrect address — when back at the side he looked somehow better — a good thing to get £500,000 for the guy if plays like that all the time . |
| 2 | He chanced to find an identical skull in Cambridge which , to his surprise , came not from Egypt but from the Chatham Islands , near New Zealand . |
| 3 | Now they got much the same thing for the dinner , but if the prisoner had got any money of his own , and if he cared to contribute an extra sixpence he got a hot meal at midday . |
| 4 | He failed to hold an innocuous drive from the edge of the box by Gus Caesar and Andy Smith reacted swiftly to despatch the rebound into the net . |
| 5 | Unfortunately the station master was rather deaf and he failed to hear an approaching train in the inky darkness of the tunnel and he was struck down and killed . |
| 6 | Simon was made aware that he might find himself obliged to stand down as a Parliamentary candidate if he failed to make an honest woman out of the Press Lord 's daughter . |
| 7 | He failed to get an expected promotion and started drinking heavily . |
| 8 | France was pushed to the same position in part because of the above considerations , and in part as a consequence of the French presidential election of 1965 in which de Gaulle , because he failed to win an absolute majority and was forced into a second run-off election against his nearest contender , suffered a not inconsiderable loss of prestige . |
| 9 | At that time he admitted controlling an industrial capital of £800,000 . |
| 10 | He tried to live an ordinary life , working as a bus driver , and accounts clerk at Harrods and later studying for a zoology degree , but nothing made him content . |
| 11 | MILLIONS of TV viewers around the world witnessed Mr Mellor as he tried to humiliate an Israeli army colonel who arrested a Palestinian boy . |
| 12 | Nothing , he found , was more effective — as he tried to devise an inner world that at the same time avoided the black hole of dejection — than work , solitary work , work in which one was gladly buried . |
| 13 | At the same time he tried to make an economic case for expenditure in that area : ‘ Moreover , from the trade point of view , this area was probably worth between one and one and a half million employed men to this country . |
| 14 | He tried to assume an amorous but handsome expression throughout the whole . |
| 15 | She wagged her finger at Frank , even for the first week behaving flirtatiously with him — while he tried to hide an obvious mixture of embarrassment and pleasure . |
| 16 | Does the hon. Gentleman believe that when he has created an independent Scottish state it will have a separate currency , or would he go for the ecu ? |
| 17 | ( It 's true , of course , that Sir Fred Hoyle has been writing recently about Earthly plagues that have originated in space , but he has devised an ingenious way of converting this objection into a virtue . |
| 18 | This book is dedicated to his 30 years ' research in the area , and he has contributed an interesting first chapter on his reminiscences . |
| 19 | ‘ I admire Trevor Sorbie because he has contributed an incredible amount to the industry . |
| 20 | He has compiled an illustrated catalogue to accompany the exhibition ( £19.95 hardback , £12.95 paperback ) which is published in the spring . |
| 21 | He has built an estimated £6.7 billion worth of extra taxes into the economy for 1994-95 rising to more than £10 billion in 1995-96 . |
| 22 | He has made an understandable decision to Americanise the story , just as Disney did with European fairy-tales like Pinocchio and English classics such as The Jungle Book . |
| 23 | He has made an impressive start though to DIY , successfully wallpapering a cupboard — inclusive of feature border ! |
| 24 | Although his lecture is curtailed by the fake fire alarm devised by the Czechoslovakian authorities ( itself an indication that the ironic force of his lecture has not been lost on the audience ) , Anderson 's calmness ( significantly indicated by Stoppard in his stage directions , p. 91 ) as he gathers up his papers , not only contrasts sharply with his panic in scene six , but indicates that he feels he has made an effective protest . |
| 25 | Thomas was sent to £2,500-a-term boarding school in Norfolk , where with specialist help he has made an enormous improvement . |
| 26 | He has made an excellent offer to us , and — ’ |
| 27 | Already he has called an extraordinary meeting of directors and supporters to discuss his radical new proposals . |
| 28 | He has ‘ written ’ far more books than any other driver in the history of the sport ; he has given an infinite number of ‘ in depth ’ interviews ; he has been the subject of as much and as adulatory film footage as the Fellini-like Enzo Ferrari , and while everything he says seems absolutely straight , nothing he says is without a sharp edge to it . |
| 29 | He has done an immoral thing because he felt guilty about not taking the children to Disneyland all those years ago . |
| 30 | He has done an enormous amount of hard and soft thinking , but most of it about the stimuli to which he is responding , and the rest about whether he is being honest with himself as to how he is responding . |