Example sentences of "he [verb] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1815 he visited Paris , in 1820 he made a six months ' visit to Italy , and in 1825 he was in Paris again , having been sent to supervise repairs at the British embassy . |
| 2 | He made a few passes and the castle diminished and shrank , as you see it now , and he made a pass or two more and it was walled with glass as you see . |
| 3 | He made a few records under the name of Joe Ritchie . |
| 4 | I mean , he made a few comments a but nothing that anybody could tell . |
| 5 | Nevertheless he made a few feints out of sheer exuberance , suggested a turn with his hips , moved at right-angles to his forward path with no loss of speed , changed step three times in successive strides , kicking hard on the last change and accelerating away in the joy of being able to run for ever . |
| 6 | He made a few enquiries and was able to track down the thieves . |
| 7 | He made an absolute Bollocks of the job down the road here at Bradford Shitty , and he was one of the most unpopular players at Elland road during the ‘ golden era ’ . |
| 8 | He stabbed a few keypads to make the point . |
| 9 | He chanced a few casts and by the end of the season he had taken more than a dozen good trout . |
| 10 | Ruddock himself , back from a one-match ban after being sent off against Crystal Palace , was blameless as he met a Vinny Samways cross to beat Steve Ogrizovic . |
| 11 | Anyhow , he got a few horses from Besthorpe Hall , and one or two of the little farms ; and he jogged along until the time came when Mr Flowerdew came into Diss on a market day , and he saw my grandfather . |
| 12 | Deane was playing well out of position acting as a left wing , to such an extent that he got a few crosses in during the first half . |
| 13 | He got a few yards down , he said so I said well have yo you have n't come round to view the house today have you ? |
| 14 | At odds of 10-1 he bet a hundred pounds he could complete 200 miles in less than nine hours on horseback . |
| 15 | When Molly Gibson in Wives and Daughters ( 1866 ) has been to visit the Towers , her father declares that he had expected to find her so ‘ polite and ceremonious ’ that he read a few chapters of Sir Charles Grandison in order to bring himself up to concert pitch . |
| 16 | He tried a few jokes to breach their blandness . |
| 17 | He tried a few handles . |
| 18 | Even a 25-year-old male with a couple of speeding convictions leaving the car on the street in a high-risk area can expect to pay only £424 per year , so long as he has a five-year no-claims bonus . |
| 19 | ‘ And I think that if he has a few problems at Liverpool at first , he 'll hang on and try and make things work . |
| 20 | He has a few swigs and then . |
| 21 | He has a few years on me — maybe ten — and sometimes he treats me like the son he never had . |
| 22 | For he has a few ideas of his own . |
| 23 | He has a few suggestions for those tempted to try aerial photography . |
| 24 | Even though the defendant does not regard the nature of his own conduct as being disorderly , he has a sufficient mens rea to satisfy the section by being aware that he is using offensive language , or kicking over dustbins or turning out the lights in the cinema , or whatever else may be alleged to constitute the disorderly behaviour . |
| 25 | This time he carried in one hand , carefully cupped , a broad leaf filled with honey ; in the other hand he grasped a few nuts which he thrust out to Marian with an air of uncertainty as though he feared they might be rejected as the maggots were . |
| 26 | I think he needs a few drinks ! ’ |
| 27 | Paul Dieppe explains how he used a Kuwaiti sports stadium to train for the London event . |
| 28 | He walked down the quay without looking back , but he must have known I was watching him for he stopped a few yards short of his car and very ostentatiously took the incriminating chart from his jacket pocket . |
| 29 | He stopped a few yards away and waited . |
| 30 | But her host 's calm demeanour as he scribbled a few notes and went on to the next call calmed her fears . |