Example sentences of "he [vb past] the [noun] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leonard was full-blooded , physically and temperamentally , and these teenage years saw him active in a wide range of sporting interests : cycling ( one of his favourite pastimes then ) , skiing , swimming , canoeing , sailing and ice-hockey ( in which he made the school team ) , boxing and wrestling , though he was very little involved in the last two . |
| 2 | He made the notion sound endearingly old-fashioned . |
| 3 | His main claim to fame was that he made the Chiquita guitar that Billy Gibbons endorsed about ten , fifteen years ago . |
| 4 | He made the zenith sector that Nevil Maskelyne [ q.v. ] took to St Helena in 1761 ; all the larger instruments for the king 's private observatory at Kew , and instruments for St John 's College in Cambridge , Naples , Geneva , Milan , and Mitau in Latvia . |
| 5 | In the morning he picked up the van in Hilderbridge and drove to Jackley the long way round through Byss , having a newly upholstered chaise longue to deliver before he made the Jackley collection . |
| 6 | He said it demanded an immediate custodial sentence , but as Spencer was of previous good character and had already spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence , he made the community service order . |
| 7 | Indeed it is a feature of this scene that the tension is kept up to the very last pizzicato , and of course it is no accident that Britten , when he made the concert version of the fourth interlude , had to jump to the last two pages of the act to get his conclusion . |
| 8 | Yet he made the distinction invalid by admitting that ‘ in the work of the writer who has serious pretensions we often gain a new image of the world , an insight into human character ’ . |
| 9 | The Netherlands regained the lead within a minute through Rob Witschge and he made the game safe with his second goal after 57 minutes . |
| 10 | He claims Simeon Ferrante was suffering from concussion from a previous drop when he made the parachute jump that killed him . |
| 11 | He lowered the lap record by a staggering 11 seconds . |
| 12 | The Colonel inspected the guard and then received from the architects a gold key inscribed " Stockport Grammar School , 1487 " ; with this he unlocked the west door and declared the buildings open . |
| 13 | He unlocked the car door , holding it for her while she slipped inside with a quiet murmur of thanks . |
| 14 | In the style of his father he squandered the Vernon fortune and he alienated his wife . |
| 15 | He commissioned the Aerodynamische Versuchsanstalt in Gottingen , Germany , a foremost centre on aerodynamics , to study the fluid profiles around cylinders at rest and formulated his theory of laminar flow . |
| 16 | After attacking earlier plans , he laid the foundation stone of the National Gallery extension |
| 17 | He laid the foundation stone of the new greenhouse and later gave 150 guineas for its repair . |
| 18 | Wills II possessed no less than 30 silver trowels , one for each occasion when he laid the foundation stone of a Nonconformist chapel . |
| 19 | He checked the Jeddah airport , but only the international departures office . |
| 20 | He checked the police ID cards , and finally had to accept that the police would vouch for the social workers . |
| 21 | Wearily he checked the table china , the hotel staff being responsible for the less venerable Literary Lionisers . |
| 22 | He stabbed the shop assistant at least six times with a knife . |
| 23 | Turning slightly , he stabbed the gun barrel with its fat , cylindrical silencer into the crack between Tessa 's thighs ; she could have only moved away by uncrossing her legs . |
| 24 | Through its columns he attacked the BDDA leadership as " slovenly , slow and cliquish " , and claimed that " properly managed , the BDDA should have a membership of at least one thousand deaf-mutes , not counting missionaries and other sympathisers " . |
| 25 | He attacked the lobby system of political reporting and the increased tendency for critics to hunt as a pack . |
| 26 | In a speech to the Romanian Communist Party Congress earlier this week , he attacked the Stalin-Hitler pact of 1939 that carved up Poland and the Baltic states between them , but also ceded Bessarabia — then part of Romania and now the Soviet Republic of Moldavia — to Moscow . |
| 27 | And he had to put on a brave face as he manned the tombola stall at a primary school Christmas bazaar where his children Adam , seven , and five-year-old Amber were among the revellers . |
| 28 | As Dan pointed out , ‘ Jeff 's an amazing guitar player , but when he branded the T-Ride logo onto his arm , we were sold . ’ |
| 29 | When he went to the zoo he passed the elephant house quickly lest the irreverent onlooker should make comparisons . |
| 30 | Next to his plate was a jotting pad and pen which he must have picked up as he passed the navigation station . |