Example sentences of "he [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said Advanced Micro 's announcement it plans to ship ‘ hundreds of thousands ’ of 80486 chips this year amounts to about one week of Intel 's total productive capacity , and as for the latter 's plans to line up a manufacturing partner to boost production in 1994 , he said he doubts the company will find much excess capacity in the industry — and any company acting as a partner with Advanced Micro could face legal action , but he would not say what Intel might do . |
| 2 | So vague , indeed , is Mustakimzade that one is led to suspect that he doubts the validity of Abdulkerim 's claim to the Muftilik . |
| 3 | In the 11th minute he threaded the ball through for Evans whose shot brushed the outside of a Sunderland post . |
| 4 | He threaded the rope through the spike 's eye . |
| 5 | Chris was very quiet and she still did not say much as he threaded the car through the morning traffic . |
| 6 | My father would probably have agreed with him , had he given the subject his attention . |
| 7 | And was he given the choice before the order went out , or simply informed that it had been given ? ’ |
| 8 | Why had he given the EQ such power ? |
| 9 | United made sure of the win midway through the second half … a gold star for David Collins having set up the first he made the second too … |
| 10 | Brown Brothers Harriman analyst William Milton has followed Dan Mandresh and downgraded his rating on IBM Corp and lowered his first quarter and full-year 1993 earnings estimates : he cut his rating to sell from neutral and lowered his first quarter forecast to a loss of $0.72 per share from a loss of $0.45 , and his full-year estimate to a loss of $1.10 from a profit of $0.35 a share ; he said he made the changes because of sharper than previously expected declines in IBM 's mainframe business and more severe than expected pricing pressures ; he also said that a noticeable deterioration in employee productivity contributed to his revised outlook — productivity has fallen given declining employee morale as IBM struggles to restructure ; ‘ There 's very little a new chief executive can do initially that 's not already being done , ’ he added . |
| 11 | Then , as a concession , he made the call to summon the transporter . |
| 12 | Mr Mynott said a radio had been playing loudly in the office from which he made the call , but neither Mr Major nor Mr Clarke appeared to notice . |
| 13 | Operators earn 28p a minute for peak rate calls and 16p for cheap , with British Telecom charging the person who is responsible for the bill whether he made the call or not . |
| 14 | Then slowly Father McGiff raised himself back to a kneeling position and , taking off his spectacles , he made the sign of the cross before closing his eyes in prayer . |
| 15 | " Humph , " muttered Gabriel at this , and he made the sign of the cross . |
| 16 | Julia thought he made the hounds sound like lice . |
| 17 | He made the turn in one under par and was joined in a battle with the Spanish machine Jose Miguel and a few other golfers for the places from third downwards . |
| 18 | In the second-person sequences , he is addressed by the voice of his subconscious which , speaking in the future tense , takes him back to relive the moments of truth when he made the choices which were to determine what he later became . |
| 19 | The owner of Hummingbird House might be a surprisingly artistic , cultured hedonist , but here was a man , she decided , who liked the good things in life and did n't care how he made the money to acquire them … |
| 20 | As a septuagenarian , he made the trip to Ireland on the back of his son Eon 's motor-bike to find the Killarney Fern — long since believed gone from its single recorded site on Moel Hebog in Snowdonia . |
| 21 | At the Witney Conservative Club , Mr Hunt explained why he made the trip down to Oxfordshire : |
| 22 | He made the gravy , Paul ? |
| 23 | and he made the gravy and he |
| 24 | When he moved from Newcastle-upon-Tyne to Nottingham he made the journey down the A1 for better fishing and the chance to learn from big name anglers . |
| 25 | Again he made the journey on 4th with the ‘ Miller 's cart ’ to prepare . |
| 26 | The fact was , that he made the journey ; shabby and penniless , he had to look up addresses of kinsfolk in English towns ; he had been robbed by con-men on board the ship , for Dad was a simple , trusting person , one might say , naive . |
| 27 | He made the journey along with the 26-odd winning captains from the recent past , including ‘ Monsieur Rugby ’ Jean Prat ( Lourdes ) , and to the most successful captain in the history of French club rugby , Béziers scrum-half Richard Astre . |
| 28 | He had a full scrip of the small white flowers when he made the journey for the seventh time , and saw the three riders pace in at the gatehouse , and stood unobserved to watch Tutilo dismount , part amicably from his guards , and come wearily towards the gatehouse door , as if he would himself take the key and deliver himself dutifully back to his captivity . |
| 29 | The evidence of the available texts and manuscripts is against such an emendation , however , since none of them has such a reading ; and it seems more likely that Ibn Hajar means no more than that Molla Fenari was in his twenties when he made the journey to Egypt . |
| 30 | To return to Molla Fenari , one can not then determine with any certainty the date of his journey to Egypt since it is impossible to assert confidently which of the seemingly contradictory facts or sets of facts-Ibn Hajar 's statement that he made the journey in 778 , Taskopruzade 's statement that he went in company with Seyyid Serif , Taskopruzade 's association of Seyyid Serif 's arrival in Karaman with Cemaleddin Aksarayi 's death , and so on-deserves most weight , though perhaps the specific nature of Ibn Hajar 's date argues in its favour while , equally , the slight suspicion which always attaches to attempts to associate great figures of the past argues against the association of Molla Fenari and Seyyid Serif . |