Example sentences of "he [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He made the following points : |
| 32 | Then he made the small finger-gesture , as among professionals , for ‘ switching clients ’ . |
| 33 | However , he made the great mistake of not living to collect it . |
| 34 | He made the short journey to sample the fare of the proud dinner ladies from Wheatley Park School . |
| 35 | After he had taken his fill and sampled everything , he would then collect a jug of ale from the pantry and depart along the hallway with the tap-tap of his walking cane making an ominous rhythm on the tiled floor ; the sound becoming muffled as he made the difficult journey up the wide ornate staircase to his bedroom . |
| 36 | As he made the conventional response , Robert felt a curious exaltation , as if the phrase had made such unpleasant things as Dr Ali melt away . |
| 37 | He made the same promise nine years ago , during the siege of the Grand Mosque at Mecca . |
| 38 | Everything had changed and , when he gave two readings at Columbia University and the University of Texas , on both occasions he made the same disclaimer — that he had almost lost contact with the young man who had written the earlier poetry . |
| 39 | To all complaints about his conduct he made the same answer : he was bound by the decree of 1099 , which obliged him to withdraw from the communion of all who had taken part in ceremonies of investiture or homage . |
| 40 | As each door opened to him , he made the same statement . |
| 41 | Farmer Chris Slatter was spraying a crop of flax when he made the grim discovery . |
| 42 | In fact , he made the initial call for me , as he has a lot of contacts at the station because of his job . ’ |
| 43 | Dangerous driving cos he made the old woman give over and overtook somewhere totally stupid and probably find he had no brake . |
| 44 | In any case , he made feeble efforts to help me get him to his left foot , and with my almost total support he made the few hops to reach the boat , though I could see it hurt him sorely . |
| 45 | Wyn-rajathuk shook the pouch , then banged it on the ground , then struck it against his shoulders ; he chanted softly as he made the rhythmic movements , and the words were nonsense words . |
| 46 | He made the hard decision to abandon the Old World . |
| 47 | If he made the wrong decision , Anselm would leave England and resign the archbishopric into the pope 's hands . |
| 48 | Of course if he made the wrong decision he could pay for it by loss of his command , as we have seen , or even with his life , as happened to Timagoras , the ambassador who accepted humiliating terms at a peace conference in 367 ( Xen . |
| 49 | ‘ He was a big man , but I had studied martial arts and felt confident that I could get away if he made the wrong move . |
| 50 | He made the dead languages into living literature . |
| 51 | He made the top score in the match , and his team won a unique tournament . |
| 52 | Mr Dixon , who is Labour 's deputy chief whip , said he made the public allegation because he was tired of Tory MPs using Commons Points of Order to accuse opposition MPs of misdemeanours . |
| 53 | It was a good case he wanted us to remember that there 's a hunger for the word of God and that what we should be worried about was poverty in the things of the spirit but he made the blank statement and it shocked one young man called John who at the time was the minister of a church extension charge in one of our deprived housing situations . |
| 54 | For the next four years or so he lived the nomadic life of the minstrel , heading off in his car round the well worn folk circuits of Germany , Italy and Brittany and playing everywhere from cafes to pizza parlours . |
| 55 | Thing is , he was christened that way , and he hates the whole moviestar bit . |
| 56 | He hates the old bill anyway . |
| 57 | He unlocked the relevant locker and removed the pale-blue Adidas holdall ; but when he turned away he found his path blocked by an attractive teenager in scruffy jeans and a baggy floral T-shirt . |
| 58 | He unlocked the small side door and stepped into the darkness . |
| 59 | His tall house loomed over him as he unlocked the front door . |
| 60 | He unlocked the other cupboard , opened both doors and ran his finger along the top shelf . |