Example sentences of "he [verb] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mr Raisin says he doubts the Labour Party 's criticism that the budget itself is too small . |
| 2 | He made the simple introduction with formal precision . |
| 3 | Yet before he made the astonishing leap from Paupers ' Alley with Cambridge United to Millionaires ' Row with Manchester City Dublin , 23 , had to learn his lessons the hard way . |
| 4 | In presenting the report to the national church extension committee , he made the astonishing statement that there is no longer any dire poverty in Scotland . |
| 5 | Born the son of a bank official , he was 23 when he made the five-week voyage to Britain aboard the Northern Star armed with an Auckland University degree to take up his scholarship place at Balliol College , Oxford , in the early 1960s . |
| 6 | I heard Duncan on the 606 show and he made the classic comment about Jimmy Armfield that ‘ the manager 's indecision is final ’ . |
| 7 | History has shown that he made the right choice . |
| 8 | And , as he enters the last week of a career which spans more than 30 years , he knows he made the right choice . |
| 9 | Anfield 's record-breaking striker is certain that neither Blackburn Rovers ' financial clout nor their present League position can ever console the Scot that he made the right decision on that dramatic day in February 1991 . |
| 10 | Obviously , I think he made the right decision . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ No , it is n't Matthew , although I pray he made the right decision . ’ |
| 12 | His new house , built of hammer dressed limestone , with Westmorland slates for the roof , abutted on to the remains of the original house which he made into a service wing , and on the south side he made the grand entrance . |
| 13 | In the Herdman case the taxpayer argued that s739 could not apply if the taxpayer was not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom when he made the relevant transfer . |
| 14 | He made the Eastern breakthrough via his Yugoslav publishers , who thought the non-violent message would be well received by Russians . |
| 15 | In turn he made the polite mistake of asking her what she believed socially and politically . |
| 16 | Thereupon he made the surprising comment that the agitation about his List was inspired by anti-Semitism . |
| 17 | Dissatisfied as he was , it was while Bishop of Bristol that he made the moral stand which guaranteed that his name would be heard for three centuries whenever Cornish men were gathered together . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Later I ask if the years of drug abuse — he made the lost classic ‘ On The Beach ’ using honey slides ( lumps of hashish melted in honey ) , he almost did n't appear in The Band 's Last Waltz movie because there was a massive , subsequently disguised , lump of cocaine hanging from his left nostril — are still wearing heavy on him . |
| 20 | He made the usual inquiries about her health and escaped into the kitchen to make the coffee . |
| 21 | He made the appropriate motions . |
| 22 | 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' ’ . |
| 23 | After the line , ‘ gradually the parrot began to take on a rare significance in his mind ’ , he made the following annotation : ‘ Change the animal : make it a dog instead of a parrot . |
| 24 | He made the following points : |
| 25 | Then he made the small finger-gesture , as among professionals , for ‘ switching clients ’ . |
| 26 | However , he made the great mistake of not living to collect it . |
| 27 | He made the short journey to sample the fare of the proud dinner ladies from Wheatley Park School . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Farmer Chris Slatter was spraying a crop of flax when he made the grim discovery . |