Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 So he made up a bed in the front of the byre there , and he was sixteen year in it .
2 He liked the Latin name so much that he made up a sort of rhyme about it and chanted this as he went upstairs :
3 When Kevin O'Reilly , who runs the only pharmacy in Ederney , returned to the province , he made up the product for one psoriasis victim .
4 He made out a case for dressing down rather than up .
5 To his left wing he made out a line of higher hills and headed for it .
6 On 4 July 1933 he made out an application to the Passport Office .
7 Carson hoped not , as he made out the shape of something like Liawski 's diaries over by the skirting board of the opposite wall .
8 In a March speech at the Hotel Cecil he laid down a plan of submitting food taxes — the most controversial item — to a referendum .
9 He laid down the letter at breakfast with a white face .
10 He anticipated the later work of Humphry Repton [ q.v. ] by creating flower gardens adjacent to the house , as at Sandon in 1781 , where he laid out a garden under the windows of the drawing-room , planted with flowers and flowering shrubs and with a central basin of water with goldfish .
11 He laid out a fiver — and went home counting the cash after Dowie scored twice .
12 At the same time , offering low rents to those who would agree to build in stone , he laid out a town which after seven years had a population of 25,000 , served by a free port .
13 He laid out the newspaper on the carpet and stripped off the bowl 's clingfilm covering .
14 He laid out the argument : the Mirror had gone to Maxwell and dived downmarket , along with its Sunday counterpart ; the Mail on Sunday was repositioning itself after its disastrous launch , but had still not recovered .
15 There is a deep aviation history in the Red Lake area , Romeo Vachon is credited with the first flight into Red Lake in 1924 , when he checked out a fire for Ontario Provincial Air Service .
16 No one was really surprised when he checked out a week later after an argument about drinking beer in his room .
17 He plunged up the embankment , taking a grateful breath of fresh air , then turned and extended a large imperative hand to Catherine Crane and pulled her up beside him .
18 Without waiting for the others he plunged down the bank into the stream , slipping and slithering heedlessly over the protruding roots and rocks .
19 Madeleine , however , had insisted he bring along a girl to make up a foursome and Primrose was the only girl available at the last minute .
20 But with 15 minutes left Dyer gave the visitors some hope when he chested down a cross and struck a strong shot past Muggleton from close range .
21 In one letter to Susanna Highmore , he turns down the offer of a sonnet to be prefixed to Leapor 's second volume :
22 Charles 's territories could already have been described as an empire , in the sense that he ruled over a collection of different political units held together by the allegiance his subjects felt they owed him rather than through a sense of common institutions or common language which could serve as the foundation for a unifying national spirit .
23 He ruled out an alliance with either the FLN or the FIS for the second round .
24 He ruled out the idea of travelling just as batsman .
25 He ruled out the deployment of ECOMOG in areas under his control , arguing that this " amounted to the abandonment of Liberia 's sovereignty to a foreign force controlled by a military command " .
26 Unconcerned that it took him more than a year to prepare for , he points out the record wait for a first speech is 40 years and even Margaret Thatcher took 18 months before she made hers .
27 In fact , he passed round a hat filled with old , used mantras and I 've used the one I picked ever since .
28 He passed over a camo poncho , which I told Kaptan to put on , after I removed his blood-stained shirt .
29 As he approached the coastline he passed over a merchant ship .
30 He passed down the gallery , the sound growing fainter .
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