Example sentences of "he [verb] this [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gerald 's voice carried a hint of respect as he made this tribute . |
| 2 | He made this reconnaissance with Captain Roger Courtney , of the SBS , who had been in the Mediterranean for some months after training around Arran in Scotland . |
| 3 | Then he made this behaviour steadily more difficult for his birds by challenging them with blasts of air , or baths filled with water , or by making them push past weighted doors . |
| 4 | It looks as though Cnut was already mortally ill when he made this grant . |
| 5 | For some complicated reason he made this trip every Sunday evening . |
| 6 | He made this decision , to be sure , because he thought he could win . |
| 7 | Dressed up in his fireproof overalls , he was certainly going to earn some of the millions he made this morning . |
| 8 | ‘ In my mind , the notes are the most important thing and not all the little directions about how exactly Joe was holding his pick when he made this note ! |
| 9 | Dr Joe Hendron said the parties should return to the talks table without delay — and he made this point to Stormont Minister Sir John Wheeler yesterday . |
| 10 | Indeed when Richard marched against Angoulême he made this move after taking counsel with the barons of Poitou . |
| 11 | E W Swanton writes : Alec Bedser has recorded how , before W S Surridge started his first season as captain , he made this entry in his diary : ‘ Surrey will be champions for the next five years . ’ |
| 12 | He lived this excess not yet in despair but in the excitement of increasing life . |
| 13 | He hates this kind of talk . |
| 14 | Well I suppose a very junior clerk , the first job I was given was , well it 's unheard of in this day and age but what they had was what they call a bundi clock and there every driver and conductor had got a key that was inserted in this clock and on it was his personal number , well when he reported for duty , he inserted this key into the clock , turned the handle and stamped on to a piece of paper , a roll of paper , his number and the time he reported and the next day it was my job to go through and record from this piece of paper how many minutes they were late f reporting for duty and if they erm were more than , I think about three or four minutes we had to send them a memo telling them , that 's how things were in those days that people were , they toed the line or else . |
| 15 | He chucked this bit of glass , it cut him so we ran over here . |
| 16 | He shook his head as he registered this fact . |
| 17 | He passed this beam through holes in a rotating wheel , or oscillating miniature venetian blind , to chop it up or ‘ modulate ’ it . |
| 18 | He produced this piece of information with a certain dim self-satisfaction , as if it were a sort of moral American Express card . |
| 19 | He agreed this name might be in error , but by convoluted etymological detective work he felt he had established a link between the Saxon word for a cleared strip of land and his lines . |
| 20 | And this had gone on for some time and he was down on the shore anyway one night and looking out across the the sea and thinking long for Eday and he met this man . |
| 21 | ‘ Over the next couple of months he got his life together and he met this girl and they got engaged . |
| 22 | Oh and he met this girl , they went for a weekend to Aviemore . |
| 23 | Anyway , this mate of his and his wife — things went from bad to worse , seems he met this woman from Dundee who travelled down regular on the same train and one day he just Got Off with her and the upshot of the whole thing was a Dear-Jeannette-Letter from Sullom Voe . |
| 24 | He met this challenge by manufacturing a sense of drama through his theatrical style of rule and through his ambitious policies . |
| 25 | Like his father , Smith was fond of gambling on horses , though with marked lack of success ; he shared this propensity with few or no other deans of Christ Church . |
| 26 | The England hooker , who has already said that he would have accepted only the usual expenses had he undertaken this summer 's tour of the Republic marking the South African Rugby Board 's centenary , has now been quoted as saying that ‘ remuneration was mentioned . ’ |
| 27 | Was n't he enjoying this journey , with two women competing for his attention ? |
| 28 | He avoided this problem by inventing and patenting in 1867 an entirely different type of multipolar machine , which was used for electro-deposition and arc lighting . |
| 29 | Bukharin envisaged negative reproduction taking place even before such a catastrophic situation was reached , however , and he applied this concept to the capitalist countries . |
| 30 | His central principle was that ‘ probability is the guide to life ’ , and he applied this principle to those who find it difficult to accept Christianity . |