Example sentences of "he [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But 'e made a bit o' Welsh rarebit after some coaxing. 'E 's not as incapable as 'e looks , I 've come to 't conclusion . " |
| 2 | ‘ I do n't know what you said to 'im last evenin' , but 'e 'ad a bloke call later and done a bit of a business deal with 'im that earned a fiver , would yer believe . |
| 3 | ‘ Ca n't say much about 'is looks , 'e 'ad a scarf wrapped around 'is neck an' face ; you could only see 'is hooter an' mince pies . |
| 4 | Anyway , I did n't get no trouble from the bloke , 'e plonked a couple of quid into me mitt just before 'e said cheerio . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Aah could wish 'e looked a bit stronger . ’ |
| 6 | And I could see 'e thought a lot of you . |
| 7 | and through him became a founder member of the Fitzroy Street Group , a small society of artists centred on the Soho area who were aware of post-Impressionist developments in France . |
| 8 | Naturally he could n't answer them all himself , so Post Office staff lent a hand and every kid who wrote to him got a reply , postmarked Reindeerland or Santaland . |
| 9 | Everything about him betrayed a man of enormous emotional strength who had never been able to commit himself . |
| 10 | Tolkien too might think of the Norse legend of the ‘ Undying Lands ’ , the Odáinsakr : when King Hadding reached its boundary the witch who guided him killed a cock and threw it over the wall — a moment later he heard the cock crow before he himself had to turn away and go back to mortality . |
| 11 | Above him hung a cellophane bag of yellowy liquid , a tube carrying that vital plasma into his arm , somewhere below the lower extent of his field of vision . |
| 12 | Before him lay a pile of dead Tilean crossbowmen , polluting the sacred soil of Bretonnia with their inferior foreign blood . |
| 13 | Two packages addressed to him contained a book and a magazine full of indecent photos . |
| 14 | Lucy 's colour rose as memory of lying on the bed beside him sent a wave of desire through her , but she pushed the yearning away , making an effort to speak calmly . |
| 15 | Him had a dose of the screaming heebies . |
| 16 | Whoever killed him had a bucket of blood to wipe away . ’ |
| 17 | But Holly and eight hundred with him had a roof over their Kitchen , and there would be a roof over Hut 2 when the freezing night came . |
| 18 | A year later a dramatic attempt to assassinate him left a smoke-trail leading back to Mr Hussein . |
| 19 | Beside him stood a man whose boots had burst asunder at the toes . |
| 20 | Beside him stood a devil in red tights with horns and a forked tail . |
| 21 | Beside him sat a man of such immense proportions that Eddie Stratton wondered how he could ever fit into the seat that had been booked for him on the flight to Heathrow , scheduled to leave in forty minutes ' time . |
| 22 | His tie was badly knotted , his shirt had a crumpled look — everything about him suggested a man hastily summoned out of bed . |
| 23 | Quickly organising the men , he threaded a leading-rein through his belt , passing the free ends to a team of men . |
| 24 | Graeme Woodhatch , 38 , was shot four times at close range as he made a phone call at the Royal Free Hospital in London 's Hampstead in May . |
| 25 | When Miss Harding decided to end the 18 month relationship Assin wrote her letters and poems and when these failed the prosecution alleged he made a phone call and threatened to kill her . |
| 26 | Later in life he made a trilogy of films about the theatre , of which The Golden Coach is one of the most ravishing . |
| 27 | Yet he made a fortune . |
| 28 | Robert Service may not have struck it rich in finding Yukon gold , but he made a fortune from his books of verse , which sold into millions of copies . |
| 29 | He made a fortune from a variety of " rackets " , aided by the corruption of the city authorities that spread from the Mayor , " Bill Bill " Thompson , down to the policemen on the beat . |
| 30 | Wright , a player I 've admired since he made a name for himself at Crystal Palace , was strangely ignored for the European championship finals . |