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 | 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 ) . |
| 19 | Man must have been conscious of memories and purposes long before he made any explicit distinction between past , present , and future . |
| 20 | He made these astonishing remarks when he called for a meeting with the Toronto Globe and Mail , much to the surprise of everyone . |
| 21 | He made some good saves or we hit shots straight at him . ’ |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 ? |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Mother asked him to come to Sunday lunch and he made some awful speech about not assuming , or something . ’ |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | At Roche he made some new compounds of the same class , but they were no more rewarding . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 ! |
| 30 | 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 . |