Example sentences of "he [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember a little boy , I 've got on a picture with me he was a very very poor child and he made the best gloves in the class and it was a real sort of accolade for him . |
| 2 | France 's Algerian policy was his policy , not only in the sense that he made the critical decisions about when and how to launch an initiative or offer a concession , but because he personified the policy . |
| 3 | He made the usual inquiries about her health and escaped into the kitchen to make the coffee . |
| 4 | He made the appropriate motions . |
| 5 | In this he made the Black Panthers the first significant radical group to recognize gay liberation as a valid political movement , and did so in terms which provoked hostility from some in his own party : ‘ maybe I 'm injecting some of my prejudices by saying that ‘ even a homosexual can be revolutionary' ’ . |
| 6 | He made the following points : |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He made the dead languages into living literature . |
| 10 | ‘ He idolised the professional wrestlers he saw on television , and was determined to get in on action . ’ |
| 11 | And he plays the menacing scenes that follow over-lightly , winking at his wife , giving his half smile and making quips . |
| 12 | If in refusing , he acted as a reasonable man would have done in the same position , because he entertained the same fears , having regard to the character of the proposed assignee , etc , the real purpose of the assignment , the effect of the assignment on the property or other property of the landlord , etc , the refusal will be upheld as reasonable . |
| 13 | He realised the two men would not fight . |
| 14 | As he laid the two pictures aside with the first one he felt that it was a farewell — a farewell to his youth , his youth and the greatest happiness that this youth had given him . |
| 15 | He checked the other windows , knowing at the same time that it was pointless . |
| 16 | It was a warm spring evening and she was sewing by the window while he checked the weekly accounts . |
| 17 | When he comes to the destruction of Carthage in 146 he records the contrasting opinions of the Greeks about Rome 's conduct ( 36.9 ) . |
| 18 | He stuffed the scrawled pages into an envelope and sealed it . |
| 19 | He stuffed the two pieces into Vasili 's anorak pocket . |
| 20 | He attacked the eastern Angles between 649/50 and 652 and expelled King Anna whose unexpected return temporarily checked the Mercian advance , though only until 654 or 655 when Penda invaded East Anglian territory again and this time slew him ( HE 111 , 18 ) . |
| 21 | He divided the negative states of mind into seven groups which corresponded to his seven groups of intestinal bacteria These were : fear , indecision or uncertainty , indifference , loneliness , over-sensitivity to influences and ideas , despair or despondency and over-concern for the welfare of others . |
| 22 | ( Apart from admiring ‘ Doctor Strangelove ’ , he skips the nuclear dilemmas . ) |
| 23 | Not for him the privations of the secret outdoor life ; he stalked the rich carpets of the Ainsworth home like a king and the ornate collar he always wore added something more to his presence . |
| 24 | Although he performed valiantly as a navigator in that most dangerous of all the branches of the armed forces , the Royal Flying Corps , in 1915 , and during his service sustained a serious leg injury , there is little evidence that he experienced the full horrors of trench warfare . |
| 25 | His weeklies were produced by new technology in defiance of union opposition , and he planned the same methods for Today . |
| 26 | With Albert he planned the royal children 's education and systematized the royal household . |
| 27 | He passed the lighted windows of the Incident Room and continued on towards Benson 's . |
| 28 | Abudah , Abudah , Abudah , the name jogged up and down in his mind as he passed the crumbling houses , the rusted railings , the impoverished trees and the occasional blank , black face at curtainless windows . |
| 29 | He passed the barred windows of Edwin 's studio ; the only light in the building came from an upstairs room , the living-room , where Beryl was almost certainly sitting and brooding alone . |
| 30 | He passed the wooden seats , ducked under the willows , and the last they saw of him was his undulating shadow . |