Example sentences of "he [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the solicitor for the three cleared men says he doubts a civil action would have succeeded . |
| 2 | But Mr Raisin says he doubts the Labour Party 's criticism that the budget itself is too small . |
| 3 | He made a macabre figure standing there with wires up his nose and the whites of his uprolled eyes showing through his empty faceplate . |
| 4 | If he kens you too , then it will be a re-union , if not … ’ he made a clicking sound with his tongue . |
| 5 | To return to Lévi-Strauss , the point has been made that emotion need not be seen as obscure and incomprehensible , and that Freud 's importance is that he made a lasting contribution to explicating how the most obscure actions can be seen to make emotional sense . |
| 6 | He made a good living from his extensive knowledge of breakbeats and old funk records , and eventually Beats International evolved quite naturally out of his love of DJing . |
| 7 | He made a good living , and seemed resentful of his wife 's decision to take in a lodger . |
| 8 | After that no studio would touch him , although he made a good living as an actor and was even reunited with Gloria Swanson to recount more glorious days in Sunset Boulevard . |
| 9 | Fred had been helping to rescue a family trapped in a cellar when a collapsing beam held him trapped by his left arm and leg for several hours , but he made a good recovery . |
| 10 | He suffered another attack of pneumonia and , on medical advice , he spent the winter of 1905–6 in Egypt , where he made a good recovery . |
| 11 | He made a good recovery and in February this year was able to undergo an operation to replace both hips . |
| 12 | At the same time , he made a good contribution on the difficulty in which Labour will find itself , if it is ever in government , with its massive plans for overspending . |
| 13 | It became clear to me at Blackpool that there was considerable support for Alec , partly because he made a good speech on foreign policy , partly because he took the chair at my meeting in his capacity as President of the National Union , and partly because of lobbying by back-benchers who saw him as the best compromise candidate . |
| 14 | He made a good world . |
| 15 | it was like a maze , and he said to me Raymond you leave it to me , I 'll build these cheap as possible , but he made a good , the principle was |
| 16 | But what else would automatically set aside an existing will unless he made a new one ? |
| 17 | Alan was dominating in the air and solid and reliable in the tackle , so that he was a perfect defender for a team marshalled by Manager Dick Graham and he made a major contribution to Palace 's progress , deservedly becoming Palace 's captain while also earning England Under 23 honours . |
| 18 | He made a major ( and foolish ) confusion between biology and culture . |
| 19 | Trials at his collieries of new ventilating methods , such as the fan and high-pressure steam jets , were widely discussed , and he made a major contribution to the most efficient method of mining coal simultaneously in adjacent seams . |
| 20 | The few surviving reports of cases heard in King 's Bench during the period he was a justice ( 1295–1316 ) do not suggest that he made a major contribution to the work of the court . |
| 21 | He made a major contribution to production methods in the railway 's workshops and to the use of improved metallurgy , in locomotive and rolling-stock construction , as well as being an advocate of the use of superheated steam and compound expansion to increase locomotive power and efficiency . |
| 22 | To their credit , Malone responded well and grabbed a deserved try from Colin Wilkinson when he made a typical burst into the back line and scored under the posts with aplomb . |
| 23 | He made a complete idiot of himself over that , and I swear it was n't done deliberately . |
| 24 | Following penicillin and cefotaxime administration he was transferred to the intensive care unit , where he made a complete recovery . |
| 25 | He made a forward movement which obliged her to make way . |
| 26 | He made a rough shape that was neither a cube nor a sphere , but a wet and hollow lump . |
| 27 | In Paradiso , composed between 1317 and 1320 , he made a famous reference ( 24. 13–15 ) to the striking-train of a clock : |
| 28 | Where he made a famous name |
| 29 | I mean there was a superb advert made by film director and he made a superb ad advertisement |
| 30 | He made a spectacular series of prints after Constable landscapes and Constable himself provided hands-on involvement in five of them . |