Example sentences of "he [verb] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leonard was full-blooded , physically and temperamentally , and these teenage years saw him active in a wide range of sporting interests : cycling ( one of his favourite pastimes then ) , skiing , swimming , canoeing , sailing and ice-hockey ( in which he made the school team ) , boxing and wrestling , though he was very little involved in the last two . |
| 2 | He made the notion sound endearingly old-fashioned . |
| 3 | His main claim to fame was that he made the Chiquita guitar that Billy Gibbons endorsed about ten , fifteen years ago . |
| 4 | He made the zenith sector that Nevil Maskelyne [ q.v. ] took to St Helena in 1761 ; all the larger instruments for the king 's private observatory at Kew , and instruments for St John 's College in Cambridge , Naples , Geneva , Milan , and Mitau in Latvia . |
| 5 | In the morning he picked up the van in Hilderbridge and drove to Jackley the long way round through Byss , having a newly upholstered chaise longue to deliver before he made the Jackley collection . |
| 6 | He said it demanded an immediate custodial sentence , but as Spencer was of previous good character and had already spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence , he made the community service order . |
| 7 | Indeed it is a feature of this scene that the tension is kept up to the very last pizzicato , and of course it is no accident that Britten , when he made the concert version of the fourth interlude , had to jump to the last two pages of the act to get his conclusion . |
| 8 | Yet he made the distinction invalid by admitting that ‘ in the work of the writer who has serious pretensions we often gain a new image of the world , an insight into human character ’ . |
| 9 | The Netherlands regained the lead within a minute through Rob Witschge and he made the game safe with his second goal after 57 minutes . |
| 10 | He claims Simeon Ferrante was suffering from concussion from a previous drop when he made the parachute jump that killed him . |
| 11 | THE chasing bunch have their eyes on the bend ( top ) while Alexandre Nadobenko takes the applause as he crosses the finish line |
| 12 | He lowered the lap record by a staggering 11 seconds . |
| 13 | Actually he hates the music business , and that whole London scene . |
| 14 | You get , I mean , Dave and Steve , alright , they 've never been my favourite people but all this pious goings-on with Dave , how much he hates the town clerk , and whatever opportunity he could get he would |
| 15 | The Colonel inspected the guard and then received from the architects a gold key inscribed " Stockport Grammar School , 1487 " ; with this he unlocked the west door and declared the buildings open . |
| 16 | He unlocked the car door , holding it for her while she slipped inside with a quiet murmur of thanks . |
| 17 | With the co-operation of Sir Landon Ronald and the LSO he plays the E flat Concerto as a work of true musical substance and stature , not as a mere vehicle for heart-on-sleeve display . |
| 18 | He plays the shipping company boss Mr Jaeger : |
| 19 | No , I do n't get bored at all with it , er because snooker is not er like American pool , where you go out there with a stick and just knock balls all over the table ; snooker is snooker , and the name of snooker is to play this , you know , this game of chess on the green baize , and er that 's what , you see this is where Davis has been so good for so long , a ) he 's a supreme professional , he once apologised for only practising for two hours on Christmas Day rather than four , er and if you look at Davis ' score sheets and his matches , which I 've done over the years , you 'll see a lot of breaks of around sort of fifty five , sixty , sixty five , and then he stops , he plays the safety shot and says to his opponent ‘ okay , your turn ’ , plays the percentage game , the occasional knock in the very big ones , but that 's why he 's won so much , because he thinks it out so well , and knows the averages , knows the percentages and plays the game that way . |
| 20 | In the style of his father he squandered the Vernon fortune and he alienated his wife . |
| 21 | He commissioned the Aerodynamische Versuchsanstalt in Gottingen , Germany , a foremost centre on aerodynamics , to study the fluid profiles around cylinders at rest and formulated his theory of laminar flow . |
| 22 | After attacking earlier plans , he laid the foundation stone of the National Gallery extension |
| 23 | He laid the foundation stone of the new greenhouse and later gave 150 guineas for its repair . |
| 24 | Wills II possessed no less than 30 silver trowels , one for each occasion when he laid the foundation stone of a Nonconformist chapel . |
| 25 | He checked the Jeddah airport , but only the international departures office . |
| 26 | He checked the police ID cards , and finally had to accept that the police would vouch for the social workers . |
| 27 | Wearily he checked the table china , the hotel staff being responsible for the less venerable Literary Lionisers . |
| 28 | He moulds the ash frame with boiling water , then covers it with calico waterproofed with bitumen , tar and linseed oil . |
| 29 | He stabbed the shop assistant at least six times with a knife . |
| 30 | Turning slightly , he stabbed the gun barrel with its fat , cylindrical silencer into the crack between Tessa 's thighs ; she could have only moved away by uncrossing her legs . |