Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sat down on his bed while he threaded new laces into his boots , and then paused , one lace suspended in his hand , as he wondered suddenly why the wire service had not given the Advent any news about him . |
| 2 | He made easy copy and journalists loved his accessibility . |
| 3 | He made fourteen suggestions related to the recruitment and deployment of teachers . |
| 4 | He made all sorts of innovations during his short stay — only about a year — before moving on to King 's College , Cambridge , and starting the now famous service of nine lessons and carols at Christmas . |
| 5 | He made all sorts of wild plans . |
| 6 | And then he made all sorts of tactless remarks about the state of the body . |
| 7 | He made that noise that men who drink beer make , and wiped his mouth on the back of his wrist . |
| 8 | He made that sign of two fingers laid across two fingers . |
| 9 | Totally competent in his mind and lucid when he made that decision ? |
| 10 | He made that decision having listened to representations from hon. Members from Northern Ireland . |
| 11 | I 've gone clean off him — ever since he made that pact with Stalin and the ghastly Russians . ’ |
| 12 | trembling when he made that speech when he remember when he , remember when you , you were n't there , no you were n't there he was shaking like a leaf . |
| 13 | ‘ The Admiral was n't able to adduce anything new in evidence when he made that allegation . |
| 14 | Buy by god he made that woman come in there . |
| 15 | It can only be surmised that the Marquis was feeling pretty flush after a good win when he made that entry into his accounts , or the caddie was a highly favoured young man indeed , for four shillings at that time would have been over the top on the percentages that a caddie can expect from his round nowadays . |
| 16 | Because he made that statement when discussing the concentric spheres with which Aristotle had built the cosmos , he was evidently aware that authoritative world-pictures were not inviolable . |
| 17 | Of course after he made that statement he did n't realize that the London Region were gon na put a thousand pound in the bucket ! |
| 18 | Point of order , point of order , can Mr give any written evidence that the leader or Thamesdown Borough Council , in a meeting with him as leader of the Labour group on this council , that he made that statement ? |
| 19 | It 's gone to it 's got to a stage where he made that statement which he very very much means , he will never ever give them another album of his to market worldwide . |
| 20 | He made major contributions to the geology of Dalradian rocks along the Highland border between Callander and Loch Lomond and in the Cowal district of Argyllshire . |
| 21 | He made countless pots of tea , set and washed up tray after tray , helped the night junior hand round tea to the stunned , grey-faced rows of waiting relatives . |
| 22 | Kamara had no great love for Scottish strikers ; in April 1988 he made legal history as the first English League player to be fined in court for an on-pitch assault . |
| 23 | He made uncertain movements , because everything in his head was vague and uncertain . |
| 24 | He made small movements with his body , feinting this way and that , gauging Tuan Ti Fo 's response to each , a low growling coming from his throat . |
| 25 | He made great play of all the tasks in the Casa Guidi he had been left to do — furniture to repair , decorations to see to — but to Wilson 's experienced eye they would not have occupied an energetic person more than a month at the most . |
| 26 | Upon his Roman nose , a tiny pair of gold-rimmed spectacles might have seemed insignificant — but he made great play with them . |
| 27 | He made great play of the Opposition never , as he put it , having supported the consumer . |
| 28 | He made great efforts to include Dexter in the conversation , the sergeant noticed , embracing him in his replies . |
| 29 | In Edward III 's wars in Scotland in the 1330s he made great use of hobelars and mounted archers who were paid more and required more expensive equipment than foot soldiers . |
| 30 | In classifying them he followed Aristotle in considering as many characters as possible ; but he made great use of the ‘ principle of correlation ’ , the way in which all the parts of an animal work together . |