Example sentences of "he [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made the same promise nine years ago , during the siege of the Grand Mosque at Mecca . |
| 2 | To all complaints about his conduct he made the same answer : he was bound by the decree of 1099 , which obliged him to withdraw from the communion of all who had taken part in ceremonies of investiture or homage . |
| 3 | As each door opened to him , he made the same statement . |
| 4 | Everything had changed and , when he gave two readings at Columbia University and the University of Texas , on both occasions he made the same disclaimer — that he had almost lost contact with the young man who had written the earlier poetry . |
| 5 | He made the most of his superb wind section , used the extra clarity of the strings to underline the richness of the harmony , and encouraged the brass to cut through the texture and pin down the rhythm as , for example , in the exhilarating chorus ‘ Achieved is the Glorious Work ’ . |
| 6 | He made the most of the clear patches of brilliant blue sky fleetingly appearing through the white storm clouds . |
| 7 | Now he made the most of the proffered opportunities , even putting the notion of a third book to the back of his mind meantime . |
| 8 | With neighbouring diners sitting too close to have a conversation without being overheard , D'Arcy contented himself with the family small talk whilst he made the most of the lobster fricassée . |
| 9 | Lord Charles Beresford continued his campaign against the Admiralty that had originated in his personal feud with Admiral Fisher , and he made the most of Churchill 's unhappy relations with his admirals . |
| 10 | He made the most of things . ’ |
| 11 | Maxwell-Fyfe replied that virulent anti-Americanism was confined to a small minority , but he made the most of the opportunity to spell out the extent of British alarm over what the Americans were doing or might do in the Far East . |
| 12 | In any case , he made feeble efforts to help me get him to his left foot , and with my almost total support he made the few hops to reach the boat , though I could see it hurt him sorely . |
| 13 | If in refusing , he acted as a reasonable man would have done in the same position , because he entertained the same fears , having regard to the character of the proposed assignee , etc , the real purpose of the assignment , the effect of the assignment on the property or other property of the landlord , etc , the refusal will be upheld as reasonable . |
| 14 | He succeeded the latter as auditor of the exchequer of receipt and writer of tallies . |
| 15 | His weeklies were produced by new technology in defiance of union opposition , and he planned the same methods for Today . |
| 16 | He passed the same group of children playing on the rocks and was surrounded , as on the previous day , by a dozen or so pairs of inquisitive hands , young but not so innocent . |
| 17 | I 've cut the ropes that bind me to the shore , she thought , and sinking down onto the arm of Meredith 's chair she listened , smiling , to one of the pirates confiding that when he was in town he consulted the same dentist as dear Johnny . |
| 18 | at all , no sense of dedication , because the job which he knew was going to be his , before he met the this Simpson . |
| 19 | But he displays the same choosiness in this area too : ‘ I find most of the things on television are pretty repetitive . |
| 20 | Outwardly Carter was more polite towards Congress than Nixon had been , but he shared the latter 's contempt for the legislature and was no less shocked by its disorderly , undisciplined ways and its vulnerability to special interests . |
| 21 | He was not as clever as his half-brother , Sally-Anne 's father , but he shared the same intensely practical outlook on life . |
| 22 | It all went according to plan for her and I think he expected the same for me . |
| 23 | He applied the same principle to the Germans , who had participated through the Prussians in the dismemberment of Poland . |
| 24 | Unfortunately he applied the same stricture to himself and some of his works are rather limited . |
| 25 | Cooper was trained as an art historian and he applied the same methodology and rigorous scholarship to his chosen artists as earlier generations had to the Old Masters . |
| 26 | There was plenty of praise and some prizes for Ben when he became the All British Champ . |
| 27 | To receive Sainteny he asked the former emperor Bao Dai to stand with him and endorse the agreement . |
| 28 | As a result , he got the same response as he had received at Munich : ‘ Sorry , no vacancies ’ . |
| 29 | At the end of June 1862 , not long after Young Russia and the fires in St Petersburg — and immediately after an attempt on the life of the Grand Duke Konstantin Nikolaevich — Valuev produced a paper on the internal condition of the empire in which he admitted the many difficulties under which the government was labouring but proposed no more than converting the State Council into a somewhat more representative body and bypassing the judicial system to deal with radicals more speedily . |
| 30 | He thinks the same way as I do about our work . |