Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was Prime Minister he made little personal impact on television , bared his teeth at the cameras like an old dog , and was generally aloof and buffer-like . |
| 2 | He brought out all the papal arguments and the curial forces from legates to censures , but while he obtained acknowledgement of his final authority in matrimonial matters , he made little other headway . |
| 3 | He made just 20 League appearances for Orient but had already done enough to convince Wednesday to splash out £350,000 for his services last November , quite a sum for a player who was just 17 at the time . |
| 4 | He made similarly rapid progress when he switched to Formula Ford , the nursery of single-seater car racing , taking the British title . |
| 5 | Friends remarked that it was a measure of Branson 's single-minded approach to conversation that you could be regaling him with the most scandalous piece of tittle-tattle in London and he would turn on his heel and walk away , leaving you talking to thin air , while he made yet another telephone call about business . |
| 6 | In February 1981 , after fifteen months hors de combat , he made yet another reappearance , this time in the valuable Whitbread Trial Chase at Ascot . |
| 7 | The fake beggar ran off , turban unspooling from his head as he made pretty good time for someone unused to having two legs under him . |
| 8 | His wrong-headedness resided in his failure to recognize that the attitudes and expenditures of which he made so much fun were merely symbols of achievement , the kind of achievement which has in fact given rise to every civilization and marked stages in the development of each one . |
| 9 | Pete must have dropped onto his bed without undressing , he made so little sound . |
| 10 | Walking on his hands , he made hardly any noise , only a carpet-slipper slapping of palms against the floor . |
| 11 | I say to the hon. Member for Dagenham what the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland ( Mr. Wallace ) said about his speech , which is that he made very heavy weather . |
| 12 | During his long stay in the south he made only one portrait with an out-of-doors setting ; the pretty shopkeeper , sitting on a chair in front of her shop , looking out with uncomprehending suspicion against a white wall . |
| 13 | He made far more play than his father ( or other ninth-century Carolingians ) with the penalty of the harmscara — a public humiliation imposed at the ruler 's discretion which involved the victim 's carrying a saddle on his back . |
| 14 | Then he lived about half way and , and er , one or two more he lived at the top house on the right and somebody over the other side . |
| 15 | At eighteen , because they would n't let him read Polo at Yale , he chucked up any thought of an academic career . |
| 16 | We may have had from him an attempt at Opposition fury , but , on occasion , he experienced pretty heavy weather in trying to make distinctions between his party and the Government on an issue on which , in essence , they agree . |
| 17 | I 'd say there was at least 4/5 clubs on the phone this morning , including Blackburn , as they were about to swoop down on Sharpe for 3.5 M until he re-signed late last week . |
| 18 | Originally , he planned only one show but demand was so high for tickets that an extra night was added to the tour . |
| 19 | ‘ But that feeling of solidarity really came through , ’ added Nick , who was overwhelmed by the friendliness of the people he met there last summer . |
| 20 | At the same time , he realized how much poster artists had derived from the ‘ fine ’ artists of the past . |
| 21 | ‘ He did , once , but he threw them out of his house ; he thought he wasted too much time telling his two youngest sons bed-time stories . ’ |
| 22 | But then he applied just last summer for the Metropolitan . |
| 23 | He applied hard left rudder and left aileron , attempting to pull the aircraft back to the left . |
| 24 | Parsons left the NME before he became just another hack , taking with him memories like this : |
| 25 | He had performed so brilliantly on other expeditions he became fully fledged climber . |
| 26 | The hon. Gentleman asked whether the funding council would be the creature of the Scottish Office and he asked where public accountability would be . |
| 27 | I ONCE read a book by Bertrand Russell in which he said that at the age of seven years ( as I remember ) he got up one night to see whether there were , in fact , four angels round his bed : |
| 28 | Well he got up that railway track , I mean , bloody hell , they might 've thought well that 's one way he 's gon na go . |
| 29 | ‘ Forgive me , Marshal , but it seems unlikely he got out this way . |
| 30 | When he got home that evening he could smell that Val was in a mood . |