Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Flush with corvine visiting cards , Rolfe took up residence in Christchurch , before the fraudulent offer he made for his hosts ' house marked the end of his credit and credibility in Hampshire . |
| 2 | He made for his aircraft , walking fast . |
| 3 | However he remains unseen because Sauron can not pierce the shadows he made for his own defence . |
| 4 | But I did n't like at all the er excuses he made for his wife . |
| 5 | Then Howard sits back and tells them about the terrible balls-up he made of his arrival in the city . |
| 6 | His concern for the Dunsden poor and the compassion of his war poetry are at odds with a remark he made to his mother at the outbreak of hostilities . |
| 7 | The offer he made to his boardroom colleagues yesterday was 20p a share , 30p less than their original value . |
| 8 | The High Court has ruled that the historian from Oxfordshire will still have to pay Lord Aldington one and a half million pounds for allegations he made about his war record . |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't look at me , ’ she said , still smarting from the display of affection he made towards his damp-eyed secretary . |
| 10 | He was never at ease in large company but preferred the few friends he made through his education at Eton and Cambridge . |
| 11 | Gary Richman will be sentenced once investigators have discovered just how much money he made from his drug dealing . |
| 12 | Every day of every week he becomes richer by more money than he made in his first ten Sixties films put together and then some . |
| 13 | Mr Soros used his donation , a 20th of what he made in his currency speculation , to urge Nato to use military force in Bosnia so aid could reach suffering civilians . |
| 14 | During the visit , which he made in his capacity as President of the European Council of the European Communities , he addressed a conference of the Institute of Directors . |
| 15 | Whereupon , one of the assembled journalists — and it did not exactly endear him to his photographic colleagues — started to ask Keenan about the famous remark he made after his release — the one about drinking all the Guinness in Ireland and making love to all the women in Ireland . |
| 16 | But the preparatory sketches he made throughout his life , 300 of which are on display at this exhibition , show that a careful process of synthesis lay behind each work . |
| 17 | He crosses to his wall safe . |
| 18 | Sam looked out over the flooding river and breathed in the damp smell of the morning as if testing wine for bouquet , and I thought that he lived through his senses to a much greater degree than I did and was intensely alive in his direct approach to sex and his disregard of danger . |
| 19 | But that was a long time ago when he lived on his father 's stud farm in Ireland . |
| 20 | For some years he lived on his estate at Ballinastow in county Wicklow , where he was high sheriff in 1835 . |
| 21 | He won the Commonwealth and European titles , married and became a father in the time he lived with his particular pain . |
| 22 | Often she had passed the stone house where he lived with his children , some of whom must now be grown . |
| 23 | Subsequent financial woes — he had quit his job as a broker to work on a show for the Boone gallery — sent Koons back to Pennsylvania , where he lived with his parents for several months before heading to Florida for a political campaign job that brought him enough money to return to New York . |
| 24 | After spending the evening lambing , he had driven a few hundred yards to the copse from his home nearby at New Manor Farm , Winterslow , Wilts , where he lived with his Australian-born wife , Lavinia , 39 , seven-year-old son and five-year-old daughter . |
| 25 | He lived with his five brothers , sister and parents in an old building near the Cliff Hotel in Jaffa and he still remembered the day in 1935 on which Jean Damiani bought the first family car , a magnificent light green Buick saloon costing 350 Palestinian pounds , equivalent then to the same amount in sterling . |
| 26 | ONCE he had left the modern flat where he lived with his father in Johannesburg , John Cranko always lived in old houses . |
| 27 | He rushed along London Street and Bridge Road so fast that he puffed and staggered the last few yards to the cottage where he lived with his parents and two younger brothers . |
| 28 | Now he had a job in the dockyards at Emden where he lived with his wife . |
| 29 | What she did know was that he lived with his mother and two brothers , and that after the war he would go back to work in an insurance office . |
| 30 | It mentioned that he lived with his mother , Lady Ursula Berowne , and his second wife in one of the few extant houses built by Sir John Soane and that he had one child by his first marriage , 24-year-old Sarah Berowne , who was active in left-wing politics and who was thought to be estranged from her father . |