Example sentences of "he [verb] some [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wilson appointed Dick Crossman Shadow Secretary of State for Education and Science , and encouraged him to spearhead some 40 conferences , up and down the country , to encourage an exchange of ideas . |
| 2 | On this evidence I 'd like to hear him conduct some genuine Delius . |
| 3 | In Get Richie Quick ! , the hero 's ex-wife Lola asks him to find some missing family documents and turns out to be setting him up to take the blame for a series of axe murders she 's been committing since she was six years old . |
| 4 | But before we do , I must call Mr Kobold , tell him what I have found out and have him send some more money . ’ |
| 5 | As it is , Elizabeth could perhaps encourage him to do some voluntary work or find part-time employment to redefine his identity and meet new people . |
| 6 | We frequently telephone asking him to illustrate some obscure or abstract concept . |
| 7 | I seem to remember him doing some inane arse wiggling at the time . |
| 8 | ‘ I heard Alain this morning telling him to clear some dead timber . |
| 9 | ‘ If someone threw a bomb at you and ran away , would you shoot him in the back , or would you let him get some more bombs and try again ? ’ |
| 10 | Do try and get him to eat some decent food . |
| 11 | It comforted him to have some definite complaint against her ; everything else he felt was so vague and somehow shameful . |
| 12 | It was as if Marcus were actually waiting for him to effect some magical release or communication . |
| 13 | The real fear that this revolution might overthrow the Tsar forced him to make some political concessions to appease the masses . |
| 14 | Most notably in concert with Graham Moffatt , as the fat boy , and Moore Marriott , as the old man , he made some seventeen films . |
| 15 | He made some good saves or we hit shots straight at him . ’ |
| 16 | Later , he made some corrective statements pointing out that although he had made these observations , he was certainly not advocating the use of any drugs , although he continued to ridicule some of the US government 's attempts to stem the tide as being the wrong way to deal with the problem . |
| 17 | Surely , she thought , her son-in-law must be sadly disappointed by the casual way his wife accepted his courteous gestures , the obvious irritation Liza tried , not very successfully , to mask when he made some ordinary but perfectly reasonable remark ? |
| 18 | Probably he made some useful friends in Bremen ; Mina said he was always asking her if she 'd heard any interesting gossip at her musical soirées . |
| 19 | Mother asked him to come to Sunday lunch and he made some awful speech about not assuming , or something . ’ |
| 20 | But towards the end of the second or fourth repeat he made some small alteration in the ports de bras so that the dancer could move easily into the next sentence . |
| 21 | At Roche he made some new compounds of the same class , but they were no more rewarding . |
| 22 | But Eliot , of whom he made some absurd insinuations , imputing plagiarism , told me later on that he found Belgion an exceedingly tiresome man to deal with . |
| 23 | After struggling with one of Ruth 's imaginative scenes , I was so relieved when Basil let me attempt to paint a spray of wheat and barley stalks that I almost began to enjoy myself when he made some encouraging remark about my very tentative effort ! |
| 24 | Elena Ceauşescu was not without her own ambitions and may well have agreed to the ( temporary ) sidelining of Nicu after he made some mild protests about the state of the food supply in Sibiu . |
| 25 | Anyone who enters the liberal profession so accountancy , medical and so on erm he made some other suggestions which we 'll look at shortly . |
| 26 | Manager Phil Holder enthused : ‘ I was delighted with Benstead 's return , he made some tremendous one-on-one saves . |
| 27 | However , although he made some valuable and technically superb images there , he became disillusioned by travel , and came home to London for good . |
| 28 | He made some lovely records in the '50s but Cedric West ( still around and still playing ) steals this one . |
| 29 | Although he made some magnificent paintings and drawings of it he preferred a milder climate to produce his masterpieces . |
| 30 | He was particularly embarrassing on an occasion when Jennie Lee was sitting alongside him and in his groping fashion he made some amorous overtures . |