Example sentences of "he [verb] [art] few " in BNC.
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| 1 | On reaching the peg which had stopped my fall , he made a few trial attempts with the skyhook , just to find out how it worked . |
| 2 | For Tremayne , though he made a few self-deprecating jokes about it , the event gave proof of the substance of his life , much like the biography . |
| 3 | He made a few passes and the castle diminished and shrank , as you see it now , and he made a pass or two more and it was walled with glass as you see . |
| 4 | He made a few enquiries and was able to track down the thieves . |
| 5 | He made a few records under the name of Joe Ritchie . |
| 6 | He made a few gamey remarks to his first Hollywood leading lady , Olivia de Havilland , and she announced to the world that he was ‘ a coarse-grained man with a coarse-grained charm and a talent not completely developed ’ . |
| 7 | He made a few political speeches , mainly in his father 's constituency . |
| 8 | Nevertheless he made a few feints out of sheer exuberance , suggested a turn with his hips , moved at right-angles to his forward path with no loss of speed , changed step three times in successive strides , kicking hard on the last change and accelerating away in the joy of being able to run for ever . |
| 9 | I mean , he made a few comments a but nothing that anybody could tell . |
| 10 | In any case , he made feeble efforts to help me get him to his left foot , and with my almost total support he made the few hops to reach the boat , though I could see it hurt him sorely . |
| 11 | He stabbed a few keypads to make the point . |
| 12 | He chanced a few casts and by the end of the season he had taken more than a dozen good trout . |
| 13 | He consulted a few people whom he thought were good tests of opinion . |
| 14 | He expected a few dozen people . |
| 15 | Anyhow , he got a few horses from Besthorpe Hall , and one or two of the little farms ; and he jogged along until the time came when Mr Flowerdew came into Diss on a market day , and he saw my grandfather . |
| 16 | Even he got a few of the good lines , none better than when a malingerer produced a succession of ‘ chits ’ excusing him one arduous duty after the other . |
| 17 | Deane was playing well out of position acting as a left wing , to such an extent that he got a few crosses in during the first half . |
| 18 | He then went and called on a Mrs who 'd got a confectionery shop , corner of Road and Road and a hard luck story there , he got a few pound for doing out the sacrament , he got some money from her . |
| 19 | He got a few yards down , he said so I said well have yo you have n't come round to view the house today have you ? |
| 20 | If he truly believed there was more to her actions , if he had married her to protect her life or reputation , why could n't he spare a few insignificant minutes to listen to her now ? |
| 21 | When Molly Gibson in Wives and Daughters ( 1866 ) has been to visit the Towers , her father declares that he had expected to find her so ‘ polite and ceremonious ’ that he read a few chapters of Sir Charles Grandison in order to bring himself up to concert pitch . |
| 22 | He read the few lines through , then closed his eyes for a moment before reading aloud . |
| 23 | He tried a few jokes to breach their blandness . |
| 24 | He tried a few handles . |
| 25 | He has a few suggestions for those tempted to try aerial photography . |
| 26 | He has a few lucid moments every now and again . |
| 27 | ‘ Otherwise I 'll make sure he has a few more broken bones , ’ she warned . |
| 28 | He has a few modish novels , a collection of articles by Paul Bordieu , a copy of the New York Review and some scripts lying on the table in front of the sofa where he sits with a bottle of Yorre — never Perrier — and an ice bucket of champagne , sacramental , in front of him to greet the actresses as they are shown in . |
| 29 | He has a few more shocks coming his way yet . |
| 30 | For he has a few ideas of his own . |