Example sentences of "he [verb] [art] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made a few political speeches , mainly in his father 's constituency . |
| 2 | He made a few gamey remarks to his first Hollywood leading lady , Olivia de Havilland , and she announced to the world that he was ‘ a coarse-grained man with a coarse-grained charm and a talent not completely developed ’ . |
| 3 | For Tremayne , though he made a few self-deprecating jokes about it , the event gave proof of the substance of his life , much like the biography . |
| 4 | He expected a few dozen people . |
| 5 | There was plenty of praise and some prizes for Ben when he became the All British Champ . |
| 6 | If he truly believed there was more to her actions , if he had married her to protect her life or reputation , why could n't he spare a few insignificant minutes to listen to her now ? |
| 7 | This remained only a vague idea until he read the same Soviet paper from the 1970s as Chatterjee had seen and which dealt with the abundance of helium-3 and helium-4 in minerals . |
| 8 | Hyatt , a Canadian case which was decided by the Privy Council , it was held that where a director holds himself out to be the agent of the shareholders , then he owes the same fiduciary duties as would an ordinary agent to his principal . |
| 9 | He has a few sharp words to say about smoking on page 18 — definitely NOT an ingredient of a healthy lifestyle in his professional book . |
| 10 | He has a few lucid moments every now and again . |
| 11 | He has a few modish novels , a collection of articles by Paul Bordieu , a copy of the New York Review and some scripts lying on the table in front of the sofa where he sits with a bottle of Yorre — never Perrier — and an ice bucket of champagne , sacramental , in front of him to greet the actresses as they are shown in . |
| 12 | ‘ Otherwise I 'll make sure he has a few more broken bones , ’ she warned . |
| 13 | He has a few more shocks coming his way yet . |
| 14 | He has a few basic routines which he sticks to . |
| 15 | The social anthropologist is equally , of course , an entrepreneur whose special expertise lies in mediating between exotic cultures and his own , and he has the same vested interests as other go-betweens . |
| 16 | He looks like Sir Hugo , and he has the same evil character . |
| 17 | He used the same foul language and coarse expressions the big Glaswegian would have used and , of course , McEllhoney laughed and made the expected ribald comment . |
| 18 | Very likely he used the same precise manner ; she could n't imagine him doing otherwise . |
| 19 | He says the all male event is probably not an appropriate way to celebrate the club 's centenery . |
| 20 | After a request for stamps , he describes a few enjoyable , healthy hours out of doors walking with Dad from ten to three without a rest : We met a country girl , pale faced , delicate , tall , wrapped up to her neck in winter clothes & feeling cold in spite of all ; her eyes were timid & weak ; evidently she was suffering as girls do , & was going out to get the fresh air . |
| 21 | It seems that the potential of this new method was not realized in petrology for another forty years , for the first printed account did not appear until 1831 , in H. T. M. Witham 's Observations on Fossil Vegetables , when he published an account of how he prepared the many thin slices of fossil wood of which a microscopical description is furnished in the text . |
| 22 | Before that he caused a few raised eyebrows among physicists and astronomers with his calculations that a working time machine could be built , or arise naturally , within the framework of relativity theory . |
| 23 | Then he slipped into a deep sleep , and all at once the warm feeling of happiness deserted him and his stomach heaved as he recognised the same old nightmare returning : the walk along the jetty , the cruel hands dragging him to the edge , the utter helplessness as they lowered him into the icy water , the wave that broke over his head — and at last , that terrible choking sensation . |
| 24 | There is not , however , among those he quotes the same unambiguous acceptance of the private ownership of the means of production as appears in the pronouncements by the continental Socialist parties . |
| 25 | He showed the same scant respect for other agents of central power . |
| 26 | He wears the same sixty quid sweatshirt and Nike Air to school every day . |
| 27 | However , in August 1734 , a month after their first son was baptised , Philip Miller appears in the Parish Rate Books as occupier of a house in Swan Walk , for which he paid a half yearly rate of 14/- , reduced to 10/6d. two years later . |
| 28 | Here he creates the many happy and not so happy incidents that can occur on a skating rink where even a professional can ‘ miss a trick ’ . |
| 29 | He smiles a few secret smiles and shakes his head when Anne and Millie look at him . |
| 30 | He exposed the many devious ways in which Governments bent the rules of free trade in their favour , while flying the free trade banner . |