Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 26 June he records shooting a wattle-cheeked honeyeater ‘ on the ranges near the Upper Torrens ’ ; he ‘ killed a Bittern on the 1st July near the Murray , above Gleeson 's Station ’ ; collected red throats ‘ about forty miles north of Lake Alexandrina ’ ; spotted a white-eyebrowed pomatorhinus ‘ near the bend of the river Murray ’ ( perhaps it was this remark that led some to guess that it was the great west bend to which Gould referred ) ; and shot a pink robin in ‘ a deep ravine under Mount Lofty ’ ( this was the last time an example of this species , Petroica rodinogaster was seen in South Australia , although one or two reliable observers said they had seen specimens in the area many years previously ) . |
| 2 | Liberal Democrat MP Simon Hughes on the Lamont affair WHEN he goes to see a Shakespeare play he wants to know what happens at the end . |
| 3 | And I go sorry , and he goes makes a jolly good Christmas gift and I go I ca n't do it |
| 4 | And then Jason yeah and they 're like saying , they say look it was an early seventies crime you 've got ta help us , how would you handle it because they 're not allowed to use fast cars and guns and he goes find a country house |
| 5 | As a gesture of goodwill , it should be suggested to the purchaser that he offers to sign a confidentiality undertaking in favour of the vendors covering such information . |
| 6 | I should state here that Cizek only takes children nowadays whom he thinks have a certain aptitude for drawing and painting . |
| 7 | About everything he writes hangs a faint savour of calculation . |
| 8 | But he has to behave a little badly . |
| 9 | To the BBC SSO , whom he holds in great affection — he first came to Scotland in 1988 for their Festival of New Chinese Music — he has gifted a new work , Death and the Fire : a dialogue with Paul Klee , to be premiered on 27 March . |
| 10 | First he has to create a neutral police force . |
| 11 | During his time away , he has visited a potash mine , two dairy farms and attended a rodeo , as well as becoming an expert on 4H country fairs . |
| 12 | He has caused a storm with his claim that their bowlers ‘ scuffed up the ball ’ during the final Test at The Oval two years ago . |
| 13 | As Ashton and MacMillan in many of their ballets , he has created a style appropriate to one particular ballet . |
| 14 | Although he is a newcomer to sailing and the America 's Cup , he has created a huge syndicate of 200 people and spent a staggering £1.4 million per month on his camapign for the past year-and-a-half . |
| 15 | In the first , he dug scallop-shaped beds housing 250 herbaceous plants to give a cottagey look and , in the second , he has created a mini-woodland with a bark path and a miniature pond surrounded by peat blocks for a natural effect . |
| 16 | He has created a gap downwind into which he can accelerate to start at speed , whilst those around him will still be sheeting in . |
| 17 | Shrewd , quietly spoken and a model of impeccable sportsmanship for young and not — so-young alike , he has created a chemistry which has made Haslemere 4th XI one of the most popular sides with its opponents and the happiest with itself . |
| 18 | At Jay Gorney from 10 to 31 October , he has created a room full of furniture-sculpture complete with wallpaper and frieze-like shelving . |
| 19 | Why does a barrow boy selling bunched radishes and salad greens in the market at Chinon know by instinct so to arrange his produce that he has created a little spectacle as fresh and gay as a Dufy painting , and you are at once convinced that unless you taste some of his radishes you will be missing an experience which seems of more urgency than a visit to the Chateau of Chinon ? |
| 20 | The artist has achieved more than that though ; he has created a real group . |
| 21 | Since then he has created a garden few of us would aspire to after a lifetime of gardening . |
| 22 | It was more like a personal appearance by a pop star … just a glimpse of Desert Orchid was enough to draw the crowds and set the cameras clicking.But after all , this was the horse with his own fanclub.And he has created a few records.Between 1983 and 1991 Dezi won 34 steeplechases , picking up half a million pounds in prize money into the bargain.Now he 's retired … and enjoying the fame : |
| 23 | A groundswell of media opinion is pushing for Gavin Hastings as captain and his off-the-field credentials — particularly the manner in which he has created a happy spirit in the Scottish camp — give him a head start over England 's Will Carling . |
| 24 | I would say that , if his life is such that he has to use a drug , the welfare is poor , even if at the moment of using the drug there is no unpleasant subjective feeling . |
| 25 | He 's told he has to use a bucket and spade to empty the Atlantic ocean in 24 hours . |
| 26 | A shy man from a conservative Catholic family ( his father , ex-President Antonio Segni , belonged to the right wing of the Christian Democrats ) , he has rallied a wide range of supporters to his reform campaign : free-thinking radicals , communists , a Catholic bishop , trade unionists , the influential Rome daily La Repubblica and the top ranks of Confindustria , Italy 's employers ' association , as well as Mr Orlando himself . |
| 27 | Mr Chance has written a book based on the many talks he has given , papers he has written and conferences he has attended a record of his years working with the mentally handicapped . |
| 28 | It 's a debate Howe understandably does does not want to enter into but he has noticed a similarity between the current team and the Arsenal side he coached to the Double 21 years ago — coincidentally , the same season the Blues won their last major honour , the Cup Winners ' Cup . |
| 29 | But , given the low base from which the Liberal Democrat party began its struggle for recognition , he has achieved a great deal . |
| 30 | Sangster agrees that there were some worrying times but points out that worldwide he has achieved a century of winners for each of the past 10 years . |