Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was Prime Minister he made little personal impact on television , bared his teeth at the cameras like an old dog , and was generally aloof and buffer-like . |
| 2 | He brought out all the papal arguments and the curial forces from legates to censures , but while he obtained acknowledgement of his final authority in matrimonial matters , he made little other headway . |
| 3 | Lemon is best known for his involvement with Sunderland ; he made over 100 appearances for the Roker men . |
| 4 | He joined Ipswich Town , for whom he made over 150 appearances , helped them to gain League status and re-appeared at Selhurst Park with them in 1938–39 , and then again after the war . |
| 5 | A native Russian of genius , L. Tolstoy , had been blinded by his feelings in the famine of 1891–2 when he made mildly inaccurate statements about the Tsarist relief administration . |
| 6 | Building on the Warsaw Philharmonic 's pre-war advocacy of such Polish composers as Szymanowski ( of whose Third Symphony and ballet Harnasie he made particularly strong recordings ) , Rowicki moulded the orchestra into a responsive vehicle for an exceptionally talented native generation : collaborations with Penderecki , Gorecki , Lutoslawski and a dozen other composers were a regular feature of the National Philharmonic 's concert season and not just confined to the Warsaw Autumn festival of contemporary music . |
| 7 | He made just two birdies . |
| 8 | He made just 20 League appearances for Orient but had already done enough to convince Wednesday to splash out £350,000 for his services last November , quite a sum for a player who was just 17 at the time . |
| 9 | He made similarly rapid progress when he switched to Formula Ford , the nursery of single-seater car racing , taking the British title . |
| 10 | In February 1981 , after fifteen months hors de combat , he made yet another reappearance , this time in the valuable Whitbread Trial Chase at Ascot . |
| 11 | Friends remarked that it was a measure of Branson 's single-minded approach to conversation that you could be regaling him with the most scandalous piece of tittle-tattle in London and he would turn on his heel and walk away , leaving you talking to thin air , while he made yet another telephone call about business . |
| 12 | When he said " Give us free speech " in the first number of The Polar Star , he made plain one of the two main things which Russia lacked . |
| 13 | The fake beggar ran off , turban unspooling from his head as he made pretty good time for someone unused to having two legs under him . |
| 14 | He made so many plans for this wedding . |
| 15 | Somehow he managed to make it fun , the way he made so many things fun , and , now he was either dead or else taken over by some force I could not even begin to understand , there was nothing whatsoever to keep me in the Church . |
| 16 | His wrong-headedness resided in his failure to recognize that the attitudes and expenditures of which he made so much fun were merely symbols of achievement , the kind of achievement which has in fact given rise to every civilization and marked stages in the development of each one . |
| 17 | Pete must have dropped onto his bed without undressing , he made so little sound . |
| 18 | Walking on his hands , he made hardly any noise , only a carpet-slipper slapping of palms against the floor . |
| 19 | I do so because he made much clearer the philosophical basis of such a position than Milton Friedman does in , for example , Capitalism and Freedom . |
| 20 | ‘ He made much worse cuts in the ‘ Scenes aux champs ’ of Berlioz 's Symphonie fantastique and in the last movement of Martinů 's Sixth Symphony , though these seem to have been made in live performances only . ’ |
| 21 | He made very sure she got pregnant . |
| 22 | When Dr A B Granville published his famous and best-selling guidebook , The Spas of England in 1841 , he made very clear in the opening chapters of his mammoth work his distaste for what he regarded as ‘ the lower orders of society ’ . |
| 23 | He made very few mistakes and so often picked out the right line on the greens , lines which at the time I doubted , that I left the decisions to him . ’ |
| 24 | I say to the hon. Member for Dagenham what the hon. Member for Orkney and Shetland ( Mr. Wallace ) said about his speech , which is that he made very heavy weather . |
| 25 | Nigel also told every journalist proudly that he was ‘ married with one son ’ , although he made damn sure they did n't interview him at home , where they might meet his wife , or worse still , her friends . |
| 26 | He had n't said ‘ real coffee , ’ but he made damn sure you got the message . |
| 27 | He made doubly sure I realised I was an outcast in a heavy-handed way — and he could n't get rid of me fast enough . |
| 28 | During his long stay in the south he made only one portrait with an out-of-doors setting ; the pretty shopkeeper , sitting on a chair in front of her shop , looking out with uncomprehending suspicion against a white wall . |
| 29 | After scoring on his Villa debut against his former club , Wednesday , on the opening day of the season , he made only 13 more appearances because of injuries and failed to register another goal . |
| 30 | After scoring on his Villa debut against his former club , Wednesday , on the opening day of the season , he made only 13 more appearances because of injuries and failed to register another goal . |