Example sentences of "he [vb past] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | One symptom of the pope 's embarrassment is that for the first and last time he made a concession to Anselm on the subject of the primacy of Canterbury , which we must deal with later . |
| 2 | Vuk 's next project was a Serbian dictionary , and to help him in collecting words to include in it he made a journey to Serbia in 1816 on his way back to Vienna , calling on his old friend the archimandrite Lukian Mušički in the monastery at Šišatovac in the Fruška Gora . |
| 3 | Then he made a sign to Sikes to tell Nancy to leave the room . |
| 4 | In September of the following year he made a trip to Furness Abbey to sketch , and recorded , ‘ I was treated in a more kind and liberal manner than I have been by any people in the North of Lancashire and Westmorland , by Mr. Atkinson , his mother and sisters ’ ! |
| 5 | From this position Morris was soon able both to develop a practice of his own and to secure the fruits of public office : as early as 1727 he was referred to in print as ‘ the noted architect Mr. Morris ’ , and in 1731–2 he made a visit to Italy . |
| 6 | She is an elderly person , lives on her own , and er , he made a suggestion to her that she went with him to prison , to face the man , well , I do n't whether it was the actual man , but men that had done burglaries , you see . |
| 7 | One of Ted 's first tasks was to pass on his advice about the installation of the starboard inner engine on Sugar , following which he made a sortie to RAF Catterick where several Shackletons at the Fire School there yielded a number of instruments that were compatible to the Lancaster . |
| 8 | On his recovery he made a pilgrimage to the shrine of Rocamadour in the Quercy . |
| 9 | Mr MacGregor rejected Opposition charges that the Government 's plans had been torpedoed by the banks ' withdrawal when he made a statement to the Commons yesterday . |
| 10 | After his return he made a statement to the UK House of Commons on Oct. 24 , warning that the decision on the use of force was " not one which can be indefinitely shirked " if sanctions were proving ineffectual . |
| 11 | But when Kenneth Bowler was treated at hospital and when he made a statement to the police he said he had fallen on a fishing knife when he was drunk . |
| 12 | Mr Armstrong said : ‘ He made a statement to the police making no complaint against his wife but claiming he had fallen on a knife . ’ |
| 13 | At the time he made a report to the then Keeper of the Indian Section , Robert Skelton , who passed it on to the Indian authorities . |
| 14 | It was , however , not these controversial surface colour applications upon which his reputation was based , but the almost painterly effect of the chisel with which he made an equivalent to human flesh and hair out of hard , cold marble . |
| 15 | He made an attempt to be kind , pointing out places of interest on the way back , but she sat stiff with protest in the small front seat . |
| 16 | He made an offer to Austen , and authorized him to convey one to Birkenhead . |
| 17 | Seeing how closely Weis was watching him , he made an effort to be more warm , more friendly in his greeting there , but all the while he was wondering just how far he could trust the man . |
| 18 | In two weeks he transmitted an answer to the Royal Society in a paper that is often cited as a prime example of the scientific method . |
| 19 | He passed a mug to her and she propped herself up on the pillows to accept it . |
| 20 | Ten years later , with Professor R. Candlish Henderson , he produced an Introduction to the Law of Scotland ( 9th edn. , 1987 ) , a succinct and accurate statement of the law . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , it was my father 's intention to ask Marshal Tolonen to step down from his post of seniority to be general again , and he drafted a memorandum to that effect . |
| 22 | Among many high-level tasks , he drafted an Appeal to the League of Nations on minority rights , and made many approaches to various government authorities through a wide range of memoranda , petitions and similar appeals . |
| 23 | He recommended an amendment to Churchill 's published statement to the other party leaders suggesting this course , to say that the government would ‘ In the meantime … together do our utmost to implement the proposals for social security and full employment contained in the White Papers which we have laid before Parliament ’ . |
| 24 | He smiled ; his broken teeth stung in the icy wind and he clapped a hand to his mouth in pain , his eyes watering . |
| 25 | An ordained clergyman , he became a chaplain to Queen Victoria in 1859 . |
| 26 | Appointed as vicar of St Paul 's , Worcester , in 1914 , a year later he became a chaplain to the armed forces and began the wartime ministry among the troops in France and Flanders for which he is most remembered . |
| 27 | He became a book-keeper to Dom Joâo José da Câmara , one of the largest landowners at that time . |
| 28 | He became a party to household secrets and to Wagner 's cherished artistic plans . |
| 29 | In Moscow he became a convert to Marxism , having seen Capitalism in action in Europe . |
| 30 | In 1770 he became a surgeon to the Liverpool Infirmary . |