Example sentences of "he [verb] a [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rebuked a young Miles Davis for his dress sense , played with the greats , and recorded some classic albums . |
| 2 | He appointed a German-born Harvard professor of international relations , Henry Kissinger , as special adviser on National Security Affairs , and these two men dominated American international relations for the next six years . |
| 3 | He became a formal CIA asset in 1966 or 1967 . |
| 4 | Not only did he catch a crestfallen Kelly , who had started a minute ahead of him , but he socked the hopes of Frenchman Charly Mottet and the Swiss powerhouse Thomas Wegmuller . |
| 5 | He has a 1932 Avro 631 Cadet under restoration at North Shore aerodrome , and currently flies a taildragger Cessna 152 instead of the Concordes he used to captain . |
| 6 | He has a chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce and lives in a sixbedroomed , five-bathroomed house complete with heated , indoor swimming pool . |
| 7 | Nine laps later , he was thirteenth ; at the halfway mark , eighth ; seventh came when Niki Lauda went off spectacularly ; sixth when he overtook a faltering Mike Hailwood ; fifth when on lap fifty-five he overtook Reutemann after many laps of cat and mouse with the Argentine , never an easy man to get by ; fourth , his finishing position , when his team-mate François Cevert gallantly waved him by . |
| 8 | Kennedy was 43 when he beat a lacklustre Richard Nixon to the White House . |
| 9 | He has indicated that this may be his last year on the tour , and he finishes a five-time Davis Cup winner . |
| 10 | It seems likely that the condition of the roads had begun to grow uneven after Aberdeen : today , upon leaving the main road , the castle , now ruined , may only be approached on pockmarked and muddy lanes , and if these approximate to the surfaces upon which Johnson had to travel once he entered a remoter Scotland , his pace may be understood and excused , and his courage further applauded . |
| 11 | He arrived in Britain , where he soon found supporting roles in the cinema , notably in Victoria the Great ( 1937 ) , Herbert Wilcox 's vehicle for his future wife , Anna Neagle ; then as a schoolmaster in Goodbye Mr Chips ( 1939 ) ; and finally in Carol Reed 's Night Train to Munich ( 1940 ) , in which he played a treacherous Gestapo agent with a telling degree of coldness . |
| 12 | He told a packed Frankfurt news conference that during the flight ‘ I gave him my pilot sunglasses . |
| 13 | He told a surprised Buckingham , who greeted them in the hallway , that he wanted to see Sir Richard and Lady Isabella and other members of the household in the hall immediately . |
| 14 | For printing , he uses a wall-mounted De Vere enlarger , with which , to get the size , he shoots literally from ceiling to floor — with many pairs of worn jeans to prove it . |
| 15 | He had grown a moustache in order to look like Ian Botham and he drove a 1960s Jag like Inspector Morse . |
| 16 | He drove a chocolate-brown Rolls Royce . |
| 17 | He informed a white-faced Hugo that the boy almost certainly had meningitis . |
| 18 | Blind from infancy , he followed a well-established Dublin occupation that suited his disability and temperament , covering in his circuit an area from the river quays to the old city , where he lived with his wife and children . |
| 19 | In January 1673 , he began a regular Friday lecture in a church near Fetter Lane , and at Easter time , the Baxters moved to a house in Bloomsbury . |
| 20 | The last time Gerber wore the famous black and white hooped shirt in 1983 he smashed a powerful Cardiff side with four tries . |
| 21 | … and he shoved a petrified Gilbert ahead of him towards the stairs . |
| 22 | He pulls a rubber Dudley face , like he 's wondering where the rest of the moose is , or he 's thinking of licking the lips of Bo Derek . |
| 23 | ‘ Hank Stych ! ’ he hailed a startled Boyd , who had half risen from an easy chair , scattering the papers on which he had been working . |
| 24 | Finally , however , he ejected a denuded Ms Lewis from their estate . |
| 25 | He saw a shaky-looking Halberstadt turn eastwards and went after it . |
| 26 | In his earliest poems from the front , such as ‘ At a Calvary Near the Ancre ’ , he imagines a maimed Christ and his fellow soldiers as equal victims of warmongering ‘ pulpit professionals ’ . |
| 27 | It was almost , he stood at the window , the host below , as if he felt a new St Francis . |
| 28 | He looked a right Charlie in those tails and striped trousers . |
| 29 | THE Home Secretary has told colleagues that he expects a fresh Commons debate on the death penalty before the next election and that he would speak and vote for its restoration as a deterrent for some murders . |
| 30 | Then last February he bought a second-hand Gemini FlashIIA microlight , a weight-shift control aircraft , direct from the manufacturer . |