Example sentences of "he [verb] [art] [det] " 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 | David Icke insists he made no such claim , and blames the media for turning him into a laughing-stock . |
| 11 | He made the same promise nine years ago , during the siege of the Grand Mosque at Mecca . |
| 12 | To all complaints about his conduct he made the same answer : he was bound by the decree of 1099 , which obliged him to withdraw from the communion of all who had taken part in ceremonies of investiture or homage . |
| 13 | As each door opened to him , he made the same statement . |
| 14 | Everything had changed and , when he gave two readings at Columbia University and the University of Texas , on both occasions he made the same disclaimer — that he had almost lost contact with the young man who had written the earlier poetry . |
| 15 | He made the most of his superb wind section , used the extra clarity of the strings to underline the richness of the harmony , and encouraged the brass to cut through the texture and pin down the rhythm as , for example , in the exhilarating chorus ‘ Achieved is the Glorious Work ’ . |
| 16 | He made the most of the clear patches of brilliant blue sky fleetingly appearing through the white storm clouds . |
| 17 | Now he made the most of the proffered opportunities , even putting the notion of a third book to the back of his mind meantime . |
| 18 | With neighbouring diners sitting too close to have a conversation without being overheard , D'Arcy contented himself with the family small talk whilst he made the most of the lobster fricassée . |
| 19 | Lord Charles Beresford continued his campaign against the Admiralty that had originated in his personal feud with Admiral Fisher , and he made the most of Churchill 's unhappy relations with his admirals . |
| 20 | He made the most of things . ’ |
| 21 | Maxwell-Fyfe replied that virulent anti-Americanism was confined to a small minority , but he made the most of the opportunity to spell out the extent of British alarm over what the Americans were doing or might do in the Far East . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | If in refusing , he acted as a reasonable man would have done in the same position , because he entertained the same fears , having regard to the character of the proposed assignee , etc , the real purpose of the assignment , the effect of the assignment on the property or other property of the landlord , etc , the refusal will be upheld as reasonable . |
| 24 | He succeeded the latter as auditor of the exchequer of receipt and writer of tallies . |
| 25 | He stabbed a few keypads to make the point . |
| 26 | He chanced a few casts and by the end of the season he had taken more than a dozen good trout . |
| 27 | His weeklies were produced by new technology in defiance of union opposition , and he planned the same methods for Today . |
| 28 | He passed the same group of children playing on the rocks and was surrounded , as on the previous day , by a dozen or so pairs of inquisitive hands , young but not so innocent . |
| 29 | He consulted a few people whom he thought were good tests of opinion . |
| 30 | I 've cut the ropes that bind me to the shore , she thought , and sinking down onto the arm of Meredith 's chair she listened , smiling , to one of the pirates confiding that when he was in town he consulted the same dentist as dear Johnny . |