Example sentences of "he [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Despite unemployment and money worries , he made two donations of £250 and £100 to Christian Aid and sympathised with victims of Serbian cruelty in Bosnia . |
| 32 | Lord Berner 's Triumph of Neptune was another work he conducted quite frequently over a long period , and he made two recordings of the ballet suite . |
| 33 | He made two crossings through Andersonstown to familiarise them with the work which they would have to do . |
| 34 | Then in 1773–4 he made two designs for a bridge to cross the Severn in Stourport , Worcestershire , the first to be of timber with stone abutments and the second a single arch of brick but resting on a cast-iron centre . |
| 35 | Of course it 's possible that he made other calls not in the line of business . ’ |
| 36 | I have read his speech in this House , in which he made most of those points , and some of his contributions in the Water Bill Committee , in which he made other points which have been well answered by my Hon. Friend the Minister of State . |
| 37 | In the process he made many enemies . |
| 38 | He was later Head of the Unemployment Benefit Service , which he managed with great skill , and where he made many friends . |
| 39 | Mr Stan Cardwell MBE , co-founder of the North-East ramblers ' association , said : ‘ His style was one of cooperation , not confrontation , and through this he made many friends , not least among the farming community , where he was regarded highly for his expertise on rights of way matters . |
| 40 | In 1950 Hoffnung began a career as a broadcaster , during the course of which he made many appearances on the radio as both raconteur and panel member . |
| 41 | He made many journeys on a bicycle , including a honeymoon trip the length of the north island of New Zealand . |
| 42 | He made many observations of atmospheric electricity , and tried to relate them to the weather . |
| 43 | Although I have fundamental disagreements with the Minister on many issues , I acknowledge that he made many concessions to the logical arguments of hon. Members from the three Opposition parties involved . |
| 44 | ROCK drummer Mitch Mitchell won substantial libel damages in the High Court yesterday after a book claimed he made racist comments to Jimi Hendrix when he played in his band , the Experience . |
| 45 | He said : ‘ He has fudged and shaded , and tried to get away from the fact that he made specific statements and those statements were wrong . |
| 46 | From his vantage point in Worcester House he became involved in the speculative buying of soldiers ' bills , with which he made fifteen purchases of Crown land , mostly on behalf of other men . |
| 47 | He made immediate friends with Eric Ravilious , whose interests curiously paralleled Bawden 's . |
| 48 | He made immediate inquiries by telephone , but felt that there was insufficient evidence to justify his intervention . |
| 49 | He made 165 centuries in 11 months , and reached the final of the British junior championship in which he lost to Barry Pinches , a teenager from Norwich whom he was to defeat in last year 's world amateur final . |
| 50 | He was well aware that he made young men look badly dressed and ill-mannered . |
| 51 | Between June 1958 and December 1960 he made eight trips to Algeria . |
| 52 | When interviewed by complaints department officers he made similar allegations about fabrication of admissions . |
| 53 | He made similar comments on Taunton and in Essex . |
| 54 | In other interviews celebrating his seventieth birthday , he made similar confessions about his private experience — confessions which , in the past , he would have been too defensive to make . |
| 55 | I know this is a crime , and so does my father , and I think that sometimes he regrets the decision he made seventeen years ago , in his hippy-anarchist days , or whatever they were . |
| 56 | He made outstanding contributions to all branches of children 's surgery but his lifelong interest was the aetiology of malformations . |
| 57 | I 'm a boody man , ’ he made playful sallies to left and right while everybody pretended to back away , shouting and laughing . |
| 58 | From 1920 he made regular appearances on Broadway and on tour in America , finally achieving fame in 1921 as the temple priest in The Green Goddess with George Arliss [ q.v . ] . |
| 59 | Thereafter he made regular journeys in Greece and Turkey , some of which formed the subject of two of his major travel books , Researches in the Highlands of Turkey ( 2 vols. , 1869 ) and Turkish Armenia and Eastern Asia Minor ( 1881 ) . |
| 60 | Also in 1875 Townsend made his first tour to the Continent ; throughout his life he made regular visits to Europe , especially to northern Italy , where he developed a lifelong interest in architectural mosaics . |