Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Penry smiled faintly as he made for the door . |
| 32 | His tongue hung from his mouth as he made for the south — and dust pothered up from his feet . |
| 33 | At 18 , Couples hooked his drive out of bounds , one of the few mistakes he made on a day that turned cold and windy by the time the five-hour 25-minute round had ended . |
| 34 | Smuts 's own notes for the great speech he made on the occasion of the dinner in the Royal Gallery ( see above ) of which over 1 , 000 , 000 copies were sold in the English language alone . |
| 35 | One of the ways in which Upper Palaeolithic man differed from his predecessors lay in the use he made of the skeletal structures of his food animals . |
| 36 | Whilst I would commend you to study the German Staff Paper in its entirety , I would also draw your attention to its personal citation of AVM Bennett , and note the dateline March — 1944 : " This 35-year-old Australian — known as one of the most resourceful officers in the RAF — had distinguished himself as long ago as 1938 by a record long-range flight to South Africa … an example of his personal operational capabilities … may be cited in the attack which he made of the German Fleet base at Trondheim . " |
| 37 | All this on top of the irony of an innocent request he made to a man with a radio listening to the cricket immediately he arrived in England after spending time with his family in Barbados . |
| 38 | He was one of the earliest arrivals at Augusta , playing his first practice round on Saturday , which was a direct contradiction of a statement he made to the Augusta Chronical when he said he tried to treat the Masters like ‘ any other tournament ’ . |
| 39 | In the third of our series on major Scottish architects , David Walker describes the career of William Burn ( 1789–1870 ) and the important contribution he made to the planning of the Victorian country house |
| 40 | He remembered now ; he always felt the same by this stage of every visit he made to the Dysons ' house in the daytime , while the children were about . |
| 41 | The unrivalled versatility of ‘ The Brig ’ was shown by the contributions he made to the solution of a number of machine ciphers during World War II . |
| 42 | Will he tell the House a little more about what representations he made to the Government of India on those important matters ? |
| 43 | Will the Minister widen his reply to include funding of the national companies , and in particular will he explain the remarks that he made to the Royal Society of Arts last week , when he speculated on the Government funding the national companies directly ? |
| 44 | Perhaps the Home Secretary will get up to respond on the second point that he made to the Conservative party conference . |
| 45 | Is that what he has been seeking to negotiate in the references that he made to the limitations on deficits ? |
| 46 | Out through the swing doors he made to the Rendezvous Coffee House . |
| 47 | Doctor the medical expert called on behalf of the defendant , had discussed the question of future care in a visit he made to the plaintiff 's hou home in July this year . |
| 48 | Mr Larkin is haunted by memories of a visit he made to the secluded woods at along with Marie Pettitt , Gary 's mother . |
| 49 | Perhaps he ought to remember those days and get around to living up to the promise he made to the last Tory conference . |
| 50 | The sport 's governing body is also considering suing the American athlete for libel over accusations he made during a campaign to clear his name after he tested positive for steroids in Monte Carlo in August 1990 and was subsequently banned for two years . |
| 51 | Gouzenko 's involvement in the allegations against Sir Roger Hollis was the result of statements he made during the lengthy debriefing following his defection when he claimed there were two Russian spies both with the codename Elli . |
| 52 | Defeated election candidate Paul Rayner has honoured a pledge he made during the campaign to members of Middlesbrough 's Muslim community by writing to the new Home Secretary with details of long delays experienced by would-be immigrants . |
| 53 | Mr Bergg wrote to Mr Fallon asking him to qualify the remarks he made during the debate . |
| 54 | It was almost a running dive he made across the gallery and to his bedroom , but he did it on tip-toe . |
| 55 | He took with him a recording of the female whales at play which he made off the Azores as part of his post-graduate efforts to analyse sperm whale sounds . |
| 56 | He was tall , very fair , reasonably attractive , and when he made with the charm at hospital parties they lapped it up . |
| 57 | The American conductor John Canarina also pointed out that in a performance he attended at Tanglewood in 1965 and in a recording he made with the Chicago Symphony , Munch made two cuts between figs. 110 and 128 ( in the Durand score ) . |
| 58 | His new house , built of hammer dressed limestone , with Westmorland slates for the roof , abutted on to the remains of the original house which he made into a service wing , and on the south side he made the grand entrance . |
| 59 | In 1870 Knowles , who for some years had practised journalism anonymously , was appointed editor of the Contemporary Review , which he made into a highly influential periodical while still continuing his architectural practice . |
| 60 | I mean he saw he sh great pace was shown then it was a nothingy ball that he made into a good situation . |