Example sentences of "he [verb] [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat down on his bed while he threaded new laces into his boots , and then paused , one lace suspended in his hand , as he wondered suddenly why the wire service had not given the Advent any news about him . |
| 2 | He made major contributions to the geology of Dalradian rocks along the Highland border between Callander and Loch Lomond and in the Cowal district of Argyllshire . |
| 3 | He made countless pots of tea , set and washed up tray after tray , helped the night junior hand round tea to the stunned , grey-faced rows of waiting relatives . |
| 4 | Kamara had no great love for Scottish strikers ; in April 1988 he made legal history as the first English League player to be fined in court for an on-pitch assault . |
| 5 | He made small movements with his body , feinting this way and that , gauging Tuan Ti Fo 's response to each , a low growling coming from his throat . |
| 6 | He made great play of all the tasks in the Casa Guidi he had been left to do — furniture to repair , decorations to see to — but to Wilson 's experienced eye they would not have occupied an energetic person more than a month at the most . |
| 7 | He made great play of the Opposition never , as he put it , having supported the consumer . |
| 8 | Upon his Roman nose , a tiny pair of gold-rimmed spectacles might have seemed insignificant — but he made great play with them . |
| 9 | In Edward III 's wars in Scotland in the 1330s he made great use of hobelars and mounted archers who were paid more and required more expensive equipment than foot soldiers . |
| 10 | In classifying them he followed Aristotle in considering as many characters as possible ; but he made great use of the ‘ principle of correlation ’ , the way in which all the parts of an animal work together . |
| 11 | He made great promises for future dates but failed to ring the numbers they gave him . |
| 12 | Wyatt 's subsequent work was primarily as a country-house architect and ‘ improver ’ , although he competed unsuccessfully for a number of major public commissions and in 1816 published a Prospectus of a Design for Various Improvements in the Metropolis , in which he made radical proposals for replanning the West End . |
| 13 | He combined a cold approach with references to emotive issues like the Boer War , he spoke in a matter-of-fact way , he made clever use of sarcasm at the expense of opponents , and he recognized the value of a decisive attitude that would be firmly grasped by a party audience . |
| 14 | As well as noting occupations , he made occasional comments on specific instances of poverty . |
| 15 | He made tut-tutting sounds of disapproval through his teeth and fingered the fraying cuffs of his jacket . |
| 16 | He made good progress until February 1992 when he was readmitted with a febrile illness and a tender mass in the right side of his neck , which was thought to be infective , but had not resolved despite treatment with flucloxacillin . |
| 17 | He made good use of every piece of newspaper that he could pick up and every convenient hedgerow ! |
| 18 | He made good use of the opportunity , bringing his horse round the outside of two leaders on the final bends to hit the front before the last . |
| 19 | He appealed to most New Zealand judges simply because he made good use of the blindside , mixed up his passes and kicks and generally gave the impression that he could play the percentages very much in the New Zealand fashion . |
| 20 | Had he been more self-assertive he might have risen higher in politics , but in his chosen field he made good use of his wealth and talents . |
| 21 | Miller won 41 per cent of the total vote , a proportion which reflected the skill with which he conducted a campaign in which he made good use of the experience gained during his 16 years as lieutenant-governor . |
| 22 | I am satisfied that the deceased encouraged the plaintiff in the belief that all the property he possessed at the date of his death would pass to her , and I do not consider that the fact that he made certain gifts during his lifetime , and indicated a wish to make others , including the gift of a legacy to the plaintiff 's son is inconsistent with such a belief . |
| 23 | In his will , made as a parishioner of St Olave Jewry , London , dated 7 January , and proved 28 February 1633 , he made monetary bequests to his four daughters and two sons , allowed the use of his professional papers to his apprentices , and gave a two-volume book of statutes to ‘ my noble friend Sir William Paddy [ q.v. ] … to be by him put and given to the library of St John 's College in Oxford ’ . |
| 24 | He made annual visits to Spain and Portugal in connection with his business and he normally lived several months a year in London . |
| 25 | Waller 's research interests started in the emerging field of electro-physiology , in which he made useful contributions to the study of fatigue in muscle and the nature of cardiac potentials . |
| 26 | It is one of Joe 's great regrets that his father died before he made Raging Bull in 1980 , the film for which he received his first Oscar nomination . |
| 27 | He made close contacts with leaders of popular movements , and it was he who provided the major link between the co-operatives and trade unionism . |
| 28 | IT was Ballymoney who started the game in livelier fashion and with only ten minutes played Willie McNeill almost headed them into the lead when he made perfect contact with McKendry 's cross only to see his header strike the woodwork . |
| 29 | Robbie observed him through lowered lashes as he made hearty inroads on the food . |
| 30 | ROCK drummer Mitch Mitchell won substantial libel damages in the High Court yesterday after a book claimed he made racist comments to Jimi Hendrix when he played in his band , the Experience . |