Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , clutching his belly with both hands and sucking his buttocks tightly together , he made one more panic-stricken dash for the little cubicle . |
| 2 | Lord , he made her so off-balance , like no one else she had ever met . |
| 3 | He made her as comfortable as possible on the back seat of the car and drove off into the night . |
| 4 | After this he made them both some cocoa and began the first of the Just So stories . |
| 5 | And yet in these , he made himself so ridiculous as to become an entertainment . |
| 6 | He went out to work by day , conveniently , at a firm of accountants ; in the evenings and at weekends he made himself as unobtrusive as possible . |
| 7 | He made himself as meek as a lamb , hoping perhaps that they would give him an extra morsel of food or some other favour . |
| 8 | The most romantic period of the whole adventure now followed as , often resembling a ragged beggar more than a would-be king , the young prince moved across to the west coast , hiding in caves and foresters ' huts , until at the end of June he made his most famous journey , ‘ over the sea to Skye ’ , posing as an Irish sewing maid . |
| 9 | On Easter Saturday 1982 he made his most famous deal , picking up troubled Chelsea Football Club when it was in danger of closure — for £1 . |
| 10 | Carter had already excavated on behalf of Lord Amherst in the 1890s , but it was during his period with Lord Carnarvan that he made his most spectacular and significant finds , digging at Thebes and in the Valley of the Kings . |
| 11 | I was so downhearted and at such a low ebb because he made it painfully clear I did n't figure in that great club 's future , however much I loved the place . |
| 12 | He made it as easy as possible for his clergy to take the oath , and he acknowledged that his friends who did so acted in as good conscience as he had in refusing it . |
| 13 | He therefore leaked his deepest , darkest secret , but selectively , to those half-way in the know already ; and he made it deliberately dramatic , so that there was still a good chance it would fall within the wide range of hyperbole or blarney that his listeners already allowed for . |
| 14 | I watched a man working on a special cookery book for a mother who is both blind and diabetic ; he made it so obvious that he valued the opportunity to make some reparation that I wonder whether more opportunities like this could not be created . |
| 15 | He made it very clear . |
| 16 | He made it quite clear that he could see no other way out of the situation . |
| 17 | He made it quite clear , I remember , that he wanted no references at all to his real name , Gerry Dorsey . |
| 18 | ‘ I said it was terrible , to ruin one of Lehar 's most wonderful love songs like that , and Ingrid , he made it quite plain that if I did n't fall in with Therese 's wishes — exactly — I would be thrown out of the company . ’ |
| 19 | The hon. Gentleman seems to be totally ignorant of and unable to adjust to President Yeltsin 's announcement in which he made it absolutely clear that our determination to maintain a minimum deterrent is no obstruction to the determination that he and President Bush have to reduce the nuclear arsenals of the super-powers . |
| 20 | Would he think her very rude and stand-offish now ? |
| 21 | Did he think it more important to get back to his life work ? |
| 22 | In order to finance an 11 month trip around the world shooting anything and every thing that caught his well-honed eye , he sold his most treasured and expensive possession , his home . |
| 23 | In order to finance an 11 month trip around the world shooting anything and everything that caught his well-honed eye , he sold his most treasured and expensive possession , his home . |
| 24 | In the two months Coleman spent at Eurame , he met him there three times , including one occasion when ‘ Nazzie ’ volunteered the information that he was on his way to Houston with a load . |
| 25 | On the ramshackle desolate station at Latimer Road he met them dutifully changing cars , but instead of joining the Safeguards , found himself offering Jed and Abelard , his pet Harris hawk , a home at the School . |
| 26 | Sometimes he irritates me so much that I could scream at him . |
| 27 | He drinks it too quick . |
| 28 | He drinks it too quick Jonathan , as I said that ai n't the drink you should drink |
| 29 | It was characteristic of him that his last work , and his greatest apart from Justification and Reconciliation , was a three-volume History of Pietism ( 1880–6 ) , in which he applied his very considerable erudition to demonstrating that Pietism represented the improper infusion into German Protestantism of alien , Roman Catholic conceptions of the Christian life . |
| 30 | Never , in all his life , had he witnessed anyone as clumsy or more dangerous to himself than Maltote with a weapon . |