Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made me all wet . |
| 2 | He made his first professional purchase at the age of 16 , while still at art college , when he bought a plate for two shillings at Preston market . |
| 3 | He was on Philip Randolph 's ‘ March on Washington ’ platform in Chicago , and it was whilst lecturing in Boston that he made his first real contact with the Jamaican nationalist movement and significantly with Norman Manley . |
| 4 | The relaxed atmosphere of the sixth form was exploited to the full by Gedge and he made his first naïve steps into a political arena , ones that ended at the school 's perimeter fence . |
| 5 | He made his first important political appearance at the Socialist Congress in Tours in December 1920 . |
| 6 | The ink was scarcely dry on the takeover agreement when he made his first inept move against me … |
| 7 | Next season , when he made his sole first-class century ( 101 against WA at Perth ) , he played in the second Test against South Africa , at Melbourne , and took four wickets . |
| 8 | In 1752 he prepared a catalogue of the contents of his Mill Hill garden and later had this bound with the seventh edition of the Dictionary where he made his own marginal notes on items of interest , including remarkable first flowerings in Britain . |
| 9 | ‘ He made it all simple , ’ said Dick . |
| 10 | He made us some fine sets of playing cards and a neat Monopoly board . |
| 11 | BJORN BORG who , at 36 , is still contemplating a return to Grand Slam tournaments , faces Olivier Delaitre , of France — ranked 44th in the world — when he plays his first official men 's singles match for almost a year in Nice tomorrow . |
| 12 | How does he think his own strident criticism of Group 4 will help his case ? |
| 13 | No man could have been more gracious in victory ; champagne for the journalists ; a special bottle to the sports editor of the Surrey Herald who saved him from being disqualified when he mistook his first round starting-time ; personal thanks to the Royal and Ancient Secretary ; even a tip at the airport of a new sports shirt because he had spent all his pounds . |
| 14 | ‘ Athens , my chiefest joy , ’ he had written several years before he got there in vivid anticipation ; now he experienced its individual dynamic . |
| 15 | He passed his embossed visiting card through the gap . |
| 16 | Yesterday , he produced his second extraordinary escape act in succession by coming from behind to win 10-15 , 9-15 , 15-13 , 15-12 , 15-10 , against an opponent who has been in both of the last two world title-winning teams . |
| 17 | In 1804 he produced his first popular set of aquatints , Sixty Views of the Lakes . |
| 18 | In 1829 he produced his first coloured print , ‘ Butterflies ’ , and achieved popular acclaim in 1834 with the coloured plates for Feathered Tribes of the British Islands by Robert Mudie [ q.v . ] . |
| 19 | To the very last he consulted his own common sense rather than the orders of his doctors whom he detested because they advised him to give up the roast meats that he loved . |
| 20 | He asked my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for Health whether he was prepared to measure the success by the simple test of whether the trusts did more or less work for the national health service . |
| 21 | He led his small Bolshevik party in a St Petersburg putsch in October 1917 which triggered a four-year civil war . |
| 22 | He had to apologise about that young girl Carly because he got it all wrong . |
| 23 | Working on his idea in his kitchen for about five or six years he got his first crude image in 1938 . |
| 24 | ‘ And he got his slurring wrong , too , ’ Benson said . |
| 25 | He owned his own large home and had plenty of capital . |
| 26 | He retained his northern direct honesty of judgement , was absolutely without pretence and intolerant of humbug ; he could be devastatingly acid in deprecating affectation in others , yet was , in so many ways , unfailingly and practically kind . |
| 27 | He develops his own personal mechanism for dealing with it . |
| 28 | The problem here was not the distance , only 28 miles [ 45 km ] , but the intervening ridge of high ground , which rose to a height of 2500 feet [ 760 m ] , and the River Spey , across which he built his first double-arched bridge , 180 feet [ 55 m ] long ; another four single-arch bridges were required elsewhere on the route . |
| 29 | At the end of the last war he found himself some French creature and went to live with her , and so far as we know , he 's still in France . ’ |
| 30 | He found her new white Christmas-present nightdress hanging on the back of the dressing-room door , and heaved her into it , then opened the bed , and pushed her between the sheets . |