Example sentences of "he [vb past] a [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One of my best-known remarks was when I was Chancellor and Geoffrey Howe was my opponent , and he made a rather damaging criticism of what I was doing and I did n't want to spend time on that . |
| 2 | He did not immediately contemplate any drastic change in his filmmaking aesthetic , since his first Hollywood picture , Rebecca ( 1940 ) , was based on a British book and used British actors , and it was some time before he made a completely American picture . |
| 3 | Over the next few days he made a remarkably swift recovery . |
| 4 | I regret the fact that I was not in the Chamber for the speech of the hon. Member for Pudsey ( Sir G. Shaw ) , but my hon. Friend the Member for Durham , North-West ( Ms. Armstrong ) , who was here , told me that he made a heavily veiled criticism of Government policy for its lack of recognition of progress as a key measure of the effectiveness of schools , and expressed concern about the morale of teachers who , he said , were not sufficiently recognised by society . |
| 5 | Accompanied by Sophia Rahman , he made a most imaginative choice of programme — the surprisingly neglected Schumann A minor Sonata , Dallapiccola 's Two Studies and , best of all , Szymanowski 's Nocturne and Tarantella . |
| 6 | He made a surprisingly comfortable pillow , she thought bemusedly . |
| 7 | The high point of this campaign came in the autumn of 1964 , when he made a highly publicized tour of ten Latin American countries , in which he repeatedly denounced the imperialist tendencies of the superpowers . |
| 8 | I just do not know what aircraft this was , I had never seen such a type before , but he made a very cautious circuit and then to my amazement an approach to land despite the red Very lights pooped off from the control tower . |
| 9 | For H. G. Wells , the change to Bonar Law marked a distasteful new attitude by the Unionists ; when Balfour 's " essential liberalism came face to face with this new baseness of commercialized imperialism , with all its push and energy , he made a very poor fight for it . |
| 10 | I saw three movements and told him the Sonata would sound better if he made a very flashy last movement , but with content . |
| 11 | No doubt about it , he made a very timely exit one way or the other . ’ |
| 12 | He made a very exciting companion for the evening ! ’ |
| 13 | Personally , I think that in choosing to wed a nice girl like Eunice Gray and have a son he made a very sensible move . |
| 14 | He made a very sound case that only the Pathfinders should receive the benefit of H.S developments and that it was wrong for the Main Force to have the device . |
| 15 | Alan sat down again , knotting his legs around one another so that he made a dangerously tight parcel . |
| 16 | He made such a fine job of the earth , the sea and the hills ; He made an equally fine job of the creatures , large and small that run around on the land ; He even gave us the best crags in the world … |
| 17 | In 1604 he made an apparently excellent marriage but within a year his wife revealed her reversion to Catholicism , whereupon their estates were soon either sold or sequestrated . |
| 18 | He lived a very retired life ; gave up games , and took exercise by occasional short sharp runs ; and concentrated . |
| 19 | He lived a very wilful life , and the fear of chaos had always haunted him from childhood . |
| 20 | He lived a very isolated existence and was something of a recluse . |
| 21 | At last he unlocked a heavily carved door , and after a moment Meredith saw that he 'd led her into a large office with plaster frescos and a glorious ceiling of painted angels hung with gilded chandeliers . |
| 22 | With one of these he unlocked an ornately decorated tantalus . |
| 23 | His personal appreciation of Adam 's help , however , did not prevent him from strongly criticizing his cynical principle of teaching , by which ( according to John ) he cultivated an unnecessarily complicated approach to dialectic in order to enhance his own reputation ; and John took care to stress that Adam was not his teacher . |
| 24 | He planned a very large church but only the baptistry was ever completed ( in 1856 ) . |
| 25 | At Gold Hill ( later Dunstall Priory ) , Shoreham , Kent ( 1806 ) he produced a notably early example of a villa in the Italianate vernacular style of Nash 's Cronkhill , and at Balloch Castle , Dunbarton ( 1809 ) , he was amongst the first to introduce the picturesquely asymmetrical castle form into Scotland ; but he was a designer of only limited ability , frequently reducing the process of picturesque composition to a meagrely detailed routine formula of only marginal asymmetry . |
| 26 | Of these he produced a remarkably large number , in almost all the counties of the region , becoming unrivalled as the leading master builder there and establishing a reputation which extended well beyond it . |
| 27 | In 1652 he produced a more sophisticated system , in The Ground-work or foundation laid … for the framing of a new perfect language , in which he proposed the establishment of conceptual classes to which ‘ radical ’ symbols were assigned , with regular diacritics denoting subclasses . |
| 28 | A prolific and lively writer on art , he produced an almost continuous stream of articles in daily and weekly papers covering descriptions of visits to artists ' studios , collectors , auctions , dealers and museums . |
| 29 | He met a particularly unpleasant death . ’ |
| 30 | Eventually he met a rather feckless man who had seven children . |