Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adj] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would he tell us then what he believes the impact of the er pay settlements will have on the spending he 's allowed local authorities because it seems to me there must either be a cut in staff er and a cut in services if they 're gon na keep within the the money that he made available at the time when he was n't aware of these settlements . |
| 2 | He made available to the newcomers he employed all the mechanism required to make films . |
| 3 | ‘ I think Michael was probably miscast in The Importance of Being Earnest , ’ he recalled , ‘ but , in Coriolanus , he made much of a small part . |
| 4 | In a lengthy report on his first ten years in office he made much of the fact that , whereas " Russian was scarcely to be heard " in the western provinces at the time of his appointment , it now had " an indisputable primacy " . |
| 5 | He made several of the two-week journeys to northern Russia aboard the sweeper , HMS Hussar . |
| 6 | And if it be thought that Mr Hunte retains a soft spot for Pakistan ever since he and Garry Sobers had a stand of 446 against them at Sabina Park 34 years ago , we have ascertained that he made clear to the 1992 management that any further offence would be met with punishment noticeably more severe . |
| 7 | He talked of the future ; he made light of the present and its difficulties until Lucy lost sight of them too . |
| 8 | In 1961 he travelled to Brazil where he lived first under the name Peter Hochbichler until taking the name Gerhard in 1976 . |
| 9 | He lived next to an Animal Welfare Sanctuary . |
| 10 | ‘ He lived alone on the hillside and spent most of his time praying . |
| 11 | He lived alone in a log cabin beside the lake , his only company a portable radio and television . |
| 12 | One was apt to overlook Bill Lawrence , who nevertheless was there on the spot like all the rest , and able to move even more privately , since he lived alone in the lodge cottage , further along the Silcaster road . |
| 13 | He lived hard by the cathedral . |
| 14 | He lived cheek-by-jowl with the peoples of the region , absorbing their environment and languages . |
| 15 | We went quietly up to the top floor , where he unlocked one of the small black doors . |
| 16 | He unlocked one of the desk drawers , and brought out a battered tin cashbox . |
| 17 | He commissioned much of the interior decoration from Alfred Stevens [ q.v. ] : there was a special relationship between patron and sculptor , under which Stevens was given a very free hand . |
| 18 | ‘ Of course , ’ he whispered close as a lover into her ear , ‘ we 're just gon na plant the bombs . |
| 19 | He laid much of the blame on the growth of incomes outstripping that of consumer goods production , and attributed this primarily to mistakes in granting autonomy to state enterprises and in regulating the co-operative sector . |
| 20 | He laid some of the foundations of the Newtonian mechanics that was to replace Aristotle 's . |
| 21 | He knew that he would be rash to expect everyone to obey him all the time ; he had secured the Moghul throne for himself by the skill with which he had played off his brothers against one another , and he distrusted most of the people around him . |
| 22 | He gleamed blue-yellow in the night . |
| 23 | Then , for the eighteen months until March 1931 , he experienced one of the roughest passages which has been the lot of any party leader this century . |
| 24 | He produced one of the officials as proof . |
| 25 | He produced one of the most remarkable designs of his day . |
| 26 | Then when he took to chasing he produced one of the best performance by an Irish horse at Cheltenham when going down narrowly to Garrison Savannah in the 1990 Sun Alliance Novices Chase — and Garrison Savannah the following won the Gold Cup and finished second in the National . |
| 27 | He produced many of the beautiful hybrid varieties that are still sought after by tropical waterlily enthusiasts — although now devoted tropical water-lily growers are developing new strains every year . |
| 28 | His 35 tour wickets came at 32.40 , and he averaged 19 with the bat , his top-score 70 coming at Taunton . |
| 29 | He agreed some of the material was ‘ dubious ’ but did not think children should be protected by law against being photographed in the nude . |
| 30 | He sold many of the rights to MGM 's film library to help finance his takeover . |