Example sentences of "he [verb] [det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The bottom weight , Polyfemus , has done well since joining Michael Robinson 's stable during the summer and he made all the running when beating Charter Hardware 1 ½ lengths over three miles , three furlongs at Chepstow earlier in the month . |
| 2 | Meanwhile , Anderson says of the president , ‘ Over the years he made all the key decisions on the economic strategies he finally embraced . |
| 3 | He made all the stars too and the world is one of the stars . |
| 4 | But he got a pattern made and had the base of the machine made at a local foundry and he made all the leverage parts and got the , he got the blades made in Sheffield or somewhere and er he made one for himself . |
| 5 | But it just seemed that he held all the cards , he made all the decisions . |
| 6 | Tony Martin increased his lead in the Ulster jockeys championship when he made all the running on Bye For Now to take a division of the Mares Maiden Race . |
| 7 | In the days when income tax was raging at 83 per cent , he made all the preparations , " bar the rubber stamp " , to emigrate to America . |
| 8 | He made all the movements of a man apparently answering a desperate call of nature . |
| 9 | For my insurance assessment , he charted all the work that had been done — each filling ( type and size ) , every capped tooth , the bridge and the state of my gums , etc . |
| 10 | Owner Ricci Burns says : ‘ Peter has a wonderful eye and he vetted all the outfits and knew exactly what would suit Tara . ’ |
| 11 | With light-fingered nimbleness he checked all the contents , drawers and secret hiding places in the dressing-case , finding everything intact . |
| 12 | He checked all the way around the boat — or at least , as far as he could — but he saw no driftwood , nothing . |
| 13 | He gabbled all the way to the police station about his favourite film noirs . |
| 14 | Mr Ames expanded the chain further to 44 shops and then , in 1988 , Mr Branson dropped the bombshell — he sold all the smaller shops to Our Price Records to concentrate on Megastores and the planning of Virgin Airways . |
| 15 | My dad he he usually goes to a pub er it is on I think it 's Road but instead of coming this way he goes all the way into town up the other end , you know past the Hotel , he lives at |
| 16 | And he goes all the way down that end and round . |
| 17 | He had absorbed enough knowledge of lighting in his career to know who was being given the best spots , and he fought all the time to get Therese pushed out when he was on stage . |
| 18 | ‘ We must march with the century ’ are almost his first words ; and he marches all the way to the Lêgion d'honneur . |
| 19 | He asked all the men to go to one side of the room and the women to the other . |
| 20 | ‘ Anyhow , he got all the horses from Billingford Hall ; and about a month later he got the horses from Hoxne farms , and some time later he got all the horses from Redgrave farms . |
| 21 | ‘ Anyhow , he got all the horses from Billingford Hall ; and about a month later he got the horses from Hoxne farms , and some time later he got all the horses from Redgrave farms . |
| 22 | I should have made a point of following up his sickness , thought Cadfael , touched , but I thought he , of all people , would make good sure he got all the treatment he needed . |
| 23 | ‘ He got all the heads , liggers , lunatics in Notting Hill out of their beds ’ , remembers Robins . |
| 24 | Which is if , I mean when he was giving lectures in government and binding , people would invited him would put up posters saying government and binding so he got all the wrong audiences . |
| 25 | Yes you did it was er the advertisement I 'd seen or very similar in the Scotsman newspaper and I must admit when he got all the information I thought damn I should have gone for that myself . |
| 26 | But of course he got half the value of Trafford Hall , which was quarter of a million ? |
| 27 | With his death on the brink of independence , he receives all the acclaim for this achievement and none of the obloquy attached to subsequent conflicts : even though his former BNA and his PVO became heavily involved in the insurgency . |
| 28 | He owned half the houses in Page Street as well as his flourishing transport concern . |
| 29 | Runners up were Manchester Metropolitan University 's stalwart entrant Roy Lee-Faulkner with one of his 18 entries : ‘ Now he 's made everyone else redundant he wins all the rounds of pass the parcel ’ ; and David Jones , finance director of FCO Ltd with : ‘ Now I know that the recession 's hit the profession . |
| 30 | His reflection was fed by information from a wide variety of sources — from the presidential staff at the Elysée , from his ministers , from officials and experts , from the abundant official documentation that passed across his desk , and from the media ( he read all the major French newspapers as well as the Daily Telegraph , the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , and the New York Herald Tribune , and his normal weekday routine always ended in time for the eight o'clock television news ) . |