Example sentences of "he [verb] a special [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He made a special journey walking , as I say , perhaps three or four miles . |
| 2 | For one who was nervous with aristocrats , it was unusual that he made a special friend in the diocese of the hereditary lay leader of the Anglo-Catholics in England : the Earl of Halifax at Garrowby , whom he would have preferred to Churchill as a war leader . |
| 3 | Now they should be be perfectly plain , straight and we got a t I got a true cut on eighteen inches with a a Mr was so so he made a special report on erm what I 'd done . |
| 4 | He made a special entry in his journal about ten unemployed men marching from Bootle to London , with seven who were going from London to Leeds ; they stayed for one night and were provided with tea and breakfast . |
| 5 | He made a special point of seeking their opinion and their cooperation in everything he undertook on their behalf ; he believed in giving his deaf friends every opportunity of sharing in the organisation of the social and religious life of the Institutes in his care . |
| 6 | He appointed a special prosecutor , Archibald Cox , to investigate the affair . |
| 7 | He became a special constable , a member of the local emergency committee . |
| 8 | He devised a special programme , teaching the girls a new song and dance called The Little Gypsies and this earned their usual encore . |
| 9 | So extensive did his collection become that he built a special picture gallery at Northwick Park in 1832 , and some years later he acquired Thirlestane House in Cheltenham , the 1846 guide to which listed over 500 pictures . |
| 10 | He has a special machine for this . |
| 11 | On this occasion , as my hon. Friend the Member for The Wrekin and others have pointed out , he has a special interest in being here . |
| 12 | He has a special production — at no extra charge — called ‘ a Manhattan on the rocks . ’ |
| 13 | He has a special property in the goods , which gives him a lien over the goods until the whole of the price is paid or tendered . |
| 14 | Such was George 's remarkable capability that at age 14 he received a special award for his scholastic achievement . |
| 15 | He uses a special tool called a cheese iron to pull a long plug of cheese out of one truckle from each day 's production . |
| 16 | And he added a special tribute to Rush . |
| 17 | But the fact is that , like most people , he reserved a special kind of behaviour or language for whomever he was with ; in his correspondence with Ezra Pound in the same period , far example , he became an egregious Yankee addressing another . |
| 18 | He imposed a special tax on all Hindus and executed Guru Teg Bahadur , the ninth of the great teachers of the Sikhs . |
| 19 | As president of the USSR , he signed a special decree , instructing the Congress of Peoples ' Deputies to ‘ place the property of the CPSU under protection ’ . |
| 20 | He bragged that he needed a special licence to bring it on the bus . |
| 21 | He took a special interest in early free-metre poetry in Welsh , editing Carolau Richard White ( 1931 ) , Canu Rhydd Cynnar ( 1932 ) , and Hen Benillion ( 1940 ) . |
| 22 | Inspired perhaps by his father 's early photographic inventions , he took a special interest in colour photography . |
| 23 | Sinatra became so fond of the Lawfords that he kept a special room for them at his home . |
| 24 | Wayne , Ricky 's favourite pony , had such a low threshold of boredom that he had a special manger hooked over the half-door so he could eat and miss nothing in the yard at the same time . |
| 25 | Williamson felt he had a special bond with Hitler , and even at times imagined aloud that he had spoken to him on that fateful Christmas day . |
| 26 | With great patience and no doubt a certain amount of pride , for here he was expert , he minutely described the cultivation of pineapples , melons and oranges in stoves and greenhouses , cucumbers on hot beds and of early fruits , wall-forced , for which he had a special reputation . |
| 27 | He had a special sympathy for the underdog , and he enjoyed hobnobbing with all and sundry . |
| 28 | Pembroke was well placed to speak for those who wanted a more vigorous and successful war : he had a special place in the king 's affections , and he had acquitted himself well in Aquitaine . |
| 29 | Even then he had a special devotion to subterranean tracks and as the train came to the Wellington tunnel ( he and his parents had been on holiday to Cornwall that summer ) he began letting out a series of long drawn-out hooting sounds . |
| 30 | He contributed heavily from his family wealth to this Church , and also to many other organisations for deaf children and adults both in Britain and on the continent of Europe ; he had a special interest in the deaf people of Ireland , and was the first President of the National Deaf and Dumb Society , forerunner of the British Deaf Association . |