Example sentences of "he [vb past] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was followed by Rabbi Moishe , his sallow face with its rippling white beard inclining first to one side and then to the other as everyone did him honour by rising until he had passed , and just behind him came another black-garbed figure , a bespectacled priest , greying head covered by a yarmulkah . |
| 2 | He made that 1-iron talk , hitting it below the wind . |
| 3 | Well Bernie oh maybe twelve months , maybe six months , I do n't know , and er he , he made that big football pitch |
| 4 | He made such noisy protestations that his nervous owner fled back into the waiting-room . |
| 5 | He made such thorough notes that it was then no great labour to produce a similar Biographical Register for Cambridge ( 1963 ) — in 1958 he estimated that such a work could be completed within eighteen months — and a more summary Survey of Dominicans in England , based on the Ordination Lists in Episcopal Registers ( 1268–1538 ) ( Rome , 1967 ) . |
| 6 | I know Emanuel , he made this split skirt for a very good reason ! ’ |
| 7 | He made this strange reply : |
| 8 | After he made this impressive creation he said : |
| 9 | Unsurprisingly Hilliard was in Birmingham when he made this impassioned outburst against machinery . |
| 10 | He made this clear in his University Sermons : |
| 11 | He made this clear in 1099 , when he explained to the pope his objection to the sending of papal legates to any part of the kingdom of England : |
| 12 | He was his own man and he made this clear immediately with his policies and his plans for the future of motor sport worldwide . |
| 13 | This last statement should be noticed — he disliked assemblies and places where speeches were made at length and he did not enjoy being a chairman — but he made this single exception , the Convocation of York ; he always gave a presidential address , about which he took much trouble . |
| 14 | President Roh appointed a former Education Minister , Chung Won Shik , as Prime Minister on May 23 , and , on May 26 , he made several other changes among the senior members of the Cabinet . |
| 15 | He made several internal calls then announced , somewhat relieved , that he had tracked down the porter who had overseen the off-loading of the freight train the previous day . |
| 16 | In a period when ballooning was an activity only for itinerant showmen , any interest in flying invited ridicule , but he made several unsuccessful attempts to form a society to encourage aeronautical developments . |
| 17 | He made several brusque , impatient movements at the table but still she could not stop . |
| 18 | In 1889 he was one of the delegates to the International Congregational Council in Boston , and he made several further trips to North America , including one in 1907 to give the Lyman Beecher lectures at Yale University . |
| 19 | Nevertheless he made few fundamental changes in the system of government he had inherited , and in one important respect , his active and explicit preference for aristocratic ministers and officials as against commoners , his reign sees a definite regression from what had preceded it ( see above pp. 146–7 ) . |
| 20 | Man must have been conscious of memories and purposes long before he made any explicit distinction between past , present , and future . |
| 21 | I do n't think he made any more after Three . |
| 22 | She did not remember anyone inviting Tim , he had just tagged on to them , but she felt it was safer to take him than leave him near Durance in case he made any further blackmail attempts . |
| 23 | So he made these first three senior commissioning editor appointments , effectively heads of big departments , appointing two women and one man . |
| 24 | He made these astonishing remarks when he called for a meeting with the Toronto Globe and Mail , much to the surprise of everyone . |
| 25 | Most notably in concert with Graham Moffatt , as the fat boy , and Moore Marriott , as the old man , he made some seventeen films . |
| 26 | He made some good saves or we hit shots straight at him . ’ |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 ? |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Mother asked him to come to Sunday lunch and he made some awful speech about not assuming , or something . ’ |