Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could never entirely regret it , because it reminded him of working with Willie , and the passing resolves he made as a grown-up to lose some of it always contained a tang of unease about betraying his professional qualifications in the eyes of a man who would have belted him for such a thing . |
| 2 | He made for a line of scrub between two gates and waited until the street outside was fairly clear , then climbed the railings and dropped down . |
| 3 | As soon as we had cleared customs he made for a bank of telephones , and when he rejoined me he was smiling . |
| 4 | At 18 , Couples hooked his drive out of bounds , one of the few mistakes he made on a day that turned cold and windy by the time the five-hour 25-minute round had ended . |
| 5 | All this on top of the irony of an innocent request he made to a man with a radio listening to the cricket immediately he arrived in England after spending time with his family in Barbados . |
| 6 | The sport 's governing body is also considering suing the American athlete for libel over accusations he made during a campaign to clear his name after he tested positive for steroids in Monte Carlo in August 1990 and was subsequently banned for two years . |
| 7 | His new house , built of hammer dressed limestone , with Westmorland slates for the roof , abutted on to the remains of the original house which he made into a service wing , and on the south side he made the grand entrance . |
| 8 | In 1870 Knowles , who for some years had practised journalism anonymously , was appointed editor of the Contemporary Review , which he made into a highly influential periodical while still continuing his architectural practice . |
| 9 | I mean he saw he sh great pace was shown then it was a nothingy ball that he made into a good situation . |
| 10 | A former cabinet minister , Toshiyuki Inamura , was charged with evading ¥1.7 billion ( $12.6m ) of taxes on some ¥2.8 billion of ill-gotten gains that he made in a shares racket . |
| 11 | was getting really cross and was beginning to call the police over she just produced a card and they just throw it and said this means nothing to me , this means nothing to me , cover your head and she just laughed at them and walked away , but he , he pounced on a Filipino girl who was actually wearing jeans , and socks and said her jeans were too short |
| 12 | Kuypers was the first to use this technique in studies of the brain and over the next 10 years , now in the United States , he charted at a new level of detail the connections made by the cerebral cortex with nervous elements in the brain-stem and spinal cord that control movement in a number of higher mammals . |
| 13 | He lived into a world which had outgrown him . |
| 14 | As a boy he lived through a Depression inside an industrial monster clanking and heaving its passage through an increasingly ungrateful century . |
| 15 | The box where he lived as a stallion is still preserved on the estate . |
| 16 | He lived as a village carpenter 's son . |
| 17 | He lived at a very difficult time ; they wanted him back at La Scala , but there was always the possibility that Toscanini would return . |
| 18 | However , he lived at a time when the centuries-old Almagest of the Egyptian scholar Claudius Ptolemy was still being used by the Church to defend the doctrines of Scripture with ‘ evidence ’ and ‘ confirmation ’ ( not that Ptolemy had ever had the remotest idea that his book would support the Bible ! ) . |
| 19 | He lived on a war pension , having been invalided out of the RAF with epilepsy — the result , we think , of an explosion in a munitions factory . |
| 20 | Dove , the early American Modernist , met everyone worth meeting in Paris at the beginning of the century through the ministrations of his good friend Alfred Maurer and then returned to New York where , during the 1920s , he lived on a houseboat moored on the Harlem River . |
| 21 | He lived with a farmer at Berkhamsted , Hertfordshire , but in 1785 the farmer died and soon afterwards Peter died too . |
| 22 | The trouble for Rubberneck , he lived with a fanatic , he had not the gift . |
| 23 | He received parish supplementation , even though he lived with a clay worker son , a bachelor on 10s ( 50p ) a week . |
| 24 | In 1902 he lived for a short period in Clerkenwell , east London . |
| 25 | Scott inherited the family estate in 1596 , but from 1612 until towards the end of his life he lived for a good part of the year in Canterbury . |
| 26 | Cotton wrote of Walter Hagen : ‘ He lived like a prince and people treated him like one . |
| 27 | Well he lived like a millionaire an |
| 28 | In his early twenties Wordsworth wandered the roads himself in search of case histories — see Guilt and Sorrow or Old Man Travelling — and when he settled at Grasmere he lived alongside a road which was used by travellers to Whitehaven and to Scotland in bad weather ; Dorothy 's Journals are full of encounters with wanderers . |
| 29 | He felt as though he lived in a purposeless world . |
| 30 | His name was Fred Paxford , and he lived in a small wooden bungalow on the other side of the brick kilns . |