Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adj] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made 70 1st Division appearances for us — during that time our defence was usually under considerable pressure , most of the matches were tense affairs , and the strain on the captain was that much greater . |
| 2 | He made that 1-iron talk , hitting it below the wind . |
| 3 | Well Bernie oh maybe twelve months , maybe six months , I do n't know , and er he , he made that big football pitch |
| 4 | As usual he made small disappointing discoveries in the kitchen drawers . |
| 5 | In the middle of November the Eliots travelled to America , where he made five public appearances in order to pay for their forthcoming holiday in Barbados after Christmas — as long as he could " hobble up a stage " , he could still pay for such trips . |
| 6 | On 27 and 31 July he made two final appeals to Leopold , who had responded curtly to his son 's enthusiastic descriptions of his recent musical success ; and on 4 August the lovers were married at St Stephen 's Cathedral , with only Constanze 's mother , her younger sister , her guardian , and two other witnesses present . |
| 7 | He made two outstanding saves from Neil Duffy headers to ensure that Airdrie prevailed . |
| 8 | Sisley retained the British nationality inherited from his father throughout his life , although he made two unsuccessful attempts in 1888 and 1898 to become a naturalized French citizen . |
| 9 | He made two more soundings further along the bank and got the same result for both . |
| 10 | He made such noisy protestations that his nervous owner fled back into the waiting-room . |
| 11 | He made such thorough notes that it was then no great labour to produce a similar Biographical Register for Cambridge ( 1963 ) — in 1958 he estimated that such a work could be completed within eighteen months — and a more summary Survey of Dominicans in England , based on the Ordination Lists in Episcopal Registers ( 1268–1538 ) ( Rome , 1967 ) . |
| 12 | After a long and colourful summing up , in which he swelt on the viciousness of the attack and the grievousness of the wounds , the callousness of the defendants and the misery of the surviving relatives , he made one adamant point . |
| 13 | Although he made one final voyage , Columbus was a broken man . |
| 14 | The guard — who has not been named — was told he would be blown up and his family killed if he made one false move . |
| 15 | The guard , who has not been named , was told he would be blown up and his family killed if he made one false move . |
| 16 | He made eight consecutive pars , missing putts of 6ft and 4ft for birdies at the second and sixth respectively , before a bogey at the ninth gave him an outward half of 37 and took him back to level par overall . |
| 17 | During 1785 he made six more balloon flights , notably taking William Windham , MP [ q.v. ] , as a passenger on 5 May , but then gave up ballooning for twenty-five years . |
| 18 | When she emerged , looking tired and exasperated , he made various consoling remarks , most of which she seemed not to hear . |
| 19 | I know Emanuel , he made this split skirt for a very good reason ! ’ |
| 20 | He made this strange reply : |
| 21 | After he made this impressive creation he said : |
| 22 | Unsurprisingly Hilliard was in Birmingham when he made this impassioned outburst against machinery . |
| 23 | This last statement should be noticed — he disliked assemblies and places where speeches were made at length and he did not enjoy being a chairman — but he made this single exception , the Convocation of York ; he always gave a presidential address , about which he took much trouble . |
| 24 | President Roh appointed a former Education Minister , Chung Won Shik , as Prime Minister on May 23 , and , on May 26 , he made several other changes among the senior members of the Cabinet . |
| 25 | He made several internal calls then announced , somewhat relieved , that he had tracked down the porter who had overseen the off-loading of the freight train the previous day . |
| 26 | In a period when ballooning was an activity only for itinerant showmen , any interest in flying invited ridicule , but he made several unsuccessful attempts to form a society to encourage aeronautical developments . |
| 27 | In 1889 he was one of the delegates to the International Congregational Council in Boston , and he made several further trips to North America , including one in 1907 to give the Lyman Beecher lectures at Yale University . |
| 28 | Nevertheless he made few fundamental changes in the system of government he had inherited , and in one important respect , his active and explicit preference for aristocratic ministers and officials as against commoners , his reign sees a definite regression from what had preceded it ( see above pp. 146–7 ) . |
| 29 | Man must have been conscious of memories and purposes long before he made any explicit distinction between past , present , and future . |
| 30 | She did not remember anyone inviting Tim , he had just tagged on to them , but she felt it was safer to take him than leave him near Durance in case he made any further blackmail attempts . |