Example sentences of "he [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He made a mess of things in the park , but it 's the first time he 's got it wrong . |
| 32 | Oh they 're okay erm just one thing , erm I went to the dentist up over there in Street , and he made a mess of filling two teeth . |
| 33 | Anyway , he was no good with needles , and he made a mess of his veins . |
| 34 | He made a rising , growling noise at the back of his throat and brought the scullion out from under his arm looking into its mask-face again . |
| 35 | He made a turn as he spoke , then said , ‘ This is my sister 's street . ’ |
| 36 | He made a likeness of Helen of Troy which convinced all who came to sacrifice there that the Trojan War had been well fought ; and for this famous portrait , Zeuxis had lined up the young women of Croton , and taking an ear from one , the set of chin from another , the legs , the arms and stomach and so forth of others , he had assembled his divine beauty . |
| 37 | Vuk 's next project was a Serbian dictionary , and to help him in collecting words to include in it he made a journey to Serbia in 1816 on his way back to Vienna , calling on his old friend the archimandrite Lukian Mušički in the monastery at Šišatovac in the Fruška Gora . |
| 38 | His spiritualist interest began in late teens , and colours much of the work — notably an interesting poetic story about how he made a promise with a friend that whichever of them was first to the ‘ other side ’ would attempt to communicate to the other — and how it happened . |
| 39 | So he made a couple of phone calls to Osnabrück-he found he 'd been given a room with an Engineer regiment-then sipped a lager until train time . |
| 40 | He made a bed for the tired girl among the dead leaves , and covered her with his coat . |
| 41 | ’ There could be no doubt that when a garage proprietor sold petrol to a customer he made a contract of sale ( i.e. of the petrol ) with the customer , since the customer agreed to pay a ‘ money consideration , ’ the price . |
| 42 | He made a contract then out for us . |
| 43 | Cati said , ‘ I 've told you , he gives me the shivers , I think he made a spell and did things to my head . |
| 44 | He made a sketch of the inn they frequented , adjoining a big coal shed . |
| 45 | He did locate the apple orchard from which Liebermann had composed a large picture , and he made a sketch of it . |
| 46 | With his rare certainty of style , he made a sketch , rapid but inimitable . |
| 47 | A DOCTOR was beaten up by a gang as he made a midnight call to the home of a dying cancer patient . |
| 48 | Whether he did this is questionable , as in the following months he made a kitchen in the east end of the greenhouse . |
| 49 | He made a profit … kept up with the mortgage payments and cut his overdraught by a third . |
| 50 | It looked at me in the kind of easy , assessing way dogs on their peculiar errands do look at strangers — and then looked again , and stopped dead : his hackles rose : he backed , he made a kind of howling noise , turned tail , and fled . |
| 51 | He accompanied this with a rude gesture — some say it was a noise , others that he stuck out his tongue , or even that he made a sign with his forearm . |
| 52 | Then he made a sign to Sikes to tell Nancy to leave the room . |
| 53 | A mark of how things had changed was that there was now a hospital to which he could be admitted : there in the University College Hospital in Gower Street he made a will on 7 October witnessed by his old friend Edward Humberstone . |
| 54 | ‘ Whether he made a will or not does n't affect me . |
| 55 | Your husband 's wealth he made a will ? ’ |
| 56 | So he made a man , tall and strong like father , to take care of the plants and animals . |
| 57 | He made a bit of a thing of bending down to pick up his bags , anxious to hide his confusion . |
| 58 | But erm , so she got erm she , he made a bit of money I think , I think I went rash and put a fiver on . |
| 59 | He made a bit of eight inch wire , like er a U piece , and the bar at , bottom bar of the U held the tail so if the springs broke the tails did n't duck under and smash the cam . |
| 60 | He made a see-saw gesture with his right hand . |