Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1456–8 he was certainly in England , for he made over all his property to others by letters patent ; he was at the time verger to the collegiate chapel of St Stephen , Westminster . |
| 2 | In February 1981 , after fifteen months hors de combat , he made yet another reappearance , this time in the valuable Whitbread Trial Chase at Ascot . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He made so many plans for this wedding . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Pete must have dropped onto his bed without undressing , he made so little sound . |
| 8 | Walking on his hands , he made hardly any noise , only a carpet-slipper slapping of palms against the floor . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | He made far more play than his father ( or other ninth-century Carolingians ) with the penalty of the harmscara — a public humiliation imposed at the ruler 's discretion which involved the victim 's carrying a saddle on his back . |
| 11 | Only once , late in life when he made as much of an excuse as he would ever make for his anti-Semitism , did Pound ever again enter the plea for himself that he suffered from the cultural anaemia of growing up in a suburb of an Eastern seaboard city . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , he lived here all his life . ’ |
| 13 | She said it because Rory was in her mind , and he had told her he lived not many miles from Belleeks , at a little crossroads in the lower hills . |
| 14 | He lived so much within his own head that the times at which he ate and slept were entirely arbitrary . |
| 15 | Then he lived about half way and , and er , one or two more he lived at the top house on the right and somebody over the other side . |
| 16 | It 's hard now to see how The Shamen will keep the club vibe going in the stadiums they will undoubtedly end up playing , how Colin will avoid the rock postures he hates so much . |
| 17 | The Cloud-author would not dispute this but , whereas Julian and the others communicate their experience of the being of the transcendent God in the inner self by means of focus on the combination of literal and figurative truths revealed in the story of the Incarnation and Passion , he is so concerned with the reality of a God who can not be " known " by intellect or sense , that he plays down these " means " . |
| 18 | In his interviews , he plays too much off the back foot , letting the Dimblebys and Waldens bully him . |
| 19 | When he got back to Istanbul and changed one of the notes he realised how much he had been given . |
| 20 | When he got back to Istanbul and changed one of the notes he realised how much he had been given . |
| 21 | Looking back at the stormy relationship of a few years ago , he realised how much she had mellowed . |
| 22 | He realised how much he longed to wear that splendid sober regalia and take up a whip to drive a team of four horses . |
| 23 | He also availed himself of some relationship to Monck , but he presumed too much on his use of the name of Henry Bennet , Earl of Arlington [ q.v. ] , to cover his own corrupt financial transactions and was committed to the Fleet prison , from which he was released after pleading ‘ nine small lamenting children ’ . |
| 24 | [ I ] t seems to me much more likely that Lord Hardwicke LC adopted [ the construction argued for by Mackenzie ] than that he laid down some new constitutional principle that the court had the power to give relief against the provision of a statute . |
| 25 | Does he rule out any constitutional change ? |
| 26 | At eighteen , because they would n't let him read Polo at Yale , he chucked up any thought of an academic career . |
| 27 | Top cosmetic surgeon Anthony Erian says he turns away more than half the people who walk into his Harley Street consulting rooms looking for a new image . |
| 28 | Athelstan was an ‘ emperor ’ ( if he was ) because he ruled over several kingdoms ; the kings of León-Castile in the eleventh and twelfth centuries were sometimes called emperors for a slightly different reason , that they had aspirations to rule over other peoples . |
| 29 | Although Keating once again expressed optimism that the recession was bottoming out , he ruled out any further cuts in interest rates in the immediate future . |
| 30 | I do n't give a damn about Ivan 's ridiculous rag , said Charles , but of course he did , he cared much more than she did , and with reason , for Ivan usually managed to deliver her some backhanded compliment , whereas Charles always got it in the neck : ‘ HEADLEAND CRASHES HEADLONG ’ had been the headline of Ivan 's latest piece of gossip , which had consisted of a dangerous account of Charles 's behaviour at a meeting of a board of directors , laced with unfounded but inventive innuendo about a country house which he and Liz were said to be purchasing as a tax dodge . |