Example sentences of "he [vb past] [indef pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made something up . |
| 2 | He made something of a jovial name for downright failure : a big , heavy man ( probably seventeen stone ) , he barely averaged more than four runs an innings and he took only eight wickets in his long but profoundly uneventful playing career . |
| 3 | He made one as if he should try and comfort her , but turned away , walked upstage and on the balcony with his back to the audience , raised his arms widely only to drop them helplessly . |
| 4 | Then , clutching his belly with both hands and sucking his buttocks tightly together , he made one more panic-stricken dash for the little cubicle . |
| 5 | He made one last check — as best he could — in the tiny shaving mirror in the bathroom and then left his apartment . |
| 6 | ‘ Like a bologna sandwich ? ’ he asked her , as he made one for himself . |
| 7 | But he made one tell him and immediately he had explained or shown one the fallacy of one 's doubt . |
| 8 | But he got a pattern made and had the base of the machine made at a local foundry and he made all the leverage parts and got the , he got the blades made in Sheffield or somewhere and er he made one for himself . |
| 9 | Oh , he was covered in dirt and spoke like an actor reciting his lines but he made one mistake . |
| 10 | He made one mistake . |
| 11 | She made three journeys , he made one . |
| 12 | He made one tour in the early 1830s , when already ill and enfeebled . |
| 13 | He made one point with which I was in complete agreement — that to date there had been no positive selling of the merits or advantages of this treaty by its principal proponents . |
| 14 | He was delighted , therefore , when the following year he was invited to join a Commonwealth team touring India ; feeling he had a point to prove he made plenty of runs , and was invited on two similar tours in the coming years . |
| 15 | He made plenty of them too : hundreds and double-hundreds , including probably the most famous century in Test history . |
| 16 | He made nothing for himself out of the plunder of the Church lands . |
| 17 | It must have been then , in a final flush of family feeling , that he made everything over to Nigel . ’ |
| 18 | He made everything you see , the Tuthanach , the lodge … the totems . |
| 19 | ‘ Well , the rich merchant was very powerful , and he came to control things in the city , and he made everybody do as he thought they ought to do ; snowball-throwing was made illegal , and children had to eat up all their food . |
| 20 | Ince was lucky in that he made lots of fouls , but the ref played advantage on some and then forgot about them . |
| 21 | John le Grant , when designing mines , had never been known to make a mistake , and he made none now , although he worked without sleep , as they all did . |
| 22 | He stammered something . |
| 23 | He disclosed nothing of himself , but the more he talked the more convinced she became that he was not the Nazi agent in charge of their operations in Egypt . |
| 24 | Then he realised one was holding a knife to his throat . |
| 25 | Wayne was so taken aback by this that it was a moment before he realised something else ; the hand that had touched the box had come away wet . |
| 26 | He says he realised something terrible was going to happen , but he never thought that they would actually set light to the car . |
| 27 | He whispered something . |
| 28 | He whispered something but so close to my ear the sound was distorted and I said , suppressing my voice to no more than a breath because it can be so harsh , ‘ Say it again . |
| 29 | She leaned against him , crying , and he whispered something in her ear . |
| 30 | He whispered something into the ear of my dishevelled companion , who produced a bundle wrapped in old copies of Pravda . |