Example sentences of "he [vb past] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quickly organising the men , he threaded a leading-rein through his belt , passing the free ends to a team of men . |
| 2 | This sort of reading is only for the dedicated follower of the history of taste , though any reader particularly interested in a picture may find within a single catalogue entry an acutely discriminating judgement or interesting facts ; for example , Tietze 's entry also points out that Manet so much admired the Tintoretto self-portrait that he made a copy of it . |
| 3 | They say he made a speech at Dull . ’ |
| 4 | In March 1972 he made a £360 million offer for the Red Barrel brewer , winning control three months later . |
| 5 | On reaching the peg which had stopped my fall , he made a few trial attempts with the skyhook , just to find out how it worked . |
| 6 | He made a goal ( 65 ) for Baltazar , but Howard Kendall 's side equalised ( 70 ) . |
| 7 | He made a brief , unsuccessful return , but his future was overseas : Lisbon first , and then San Sebastian , where the club 's policy of using only Basque players ( recently broken by the arrival of John Aldridge from Liverpool ) limited his use of the cheque book . |
| 8 | And he made a number of management changes which reinforced the impression that Eurotunnel had become a company capable of acting in the best interests of bankers and shareholders and standing up to the demands of the Anglo-French contracting consortium . |
| 9 | On the platform he made a movement of deference to her , with open hand held out . |
| 10 | These qualities were all evident when he took charge of the task of preparing the instructions for the drafting of the Prices and Incomes Acts of the mid-Sixties and he made a notable contribution to those formidably difficult exercises . |
| 11 | He made a quiet debut in 1959 in Pilote , a comic magazine , and a book was published in 1961 . |
| 12 | His objective was to create an atmosphere of quiet and intimacy , so he made a garden , then a cloister and a shrine . |
| 13 | Since he was to be the founder of the service of carols and nine lessons , he made a permanent mark on English , and not only English , life and religion . |
| 14 | He had a gift of mimicry , and when he made a speech as though he were Asquith or Lloyd George it would raise shouts of laughter . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Yet he made a fortune . |
| 17 | Rudd admits that he made a big mistake in designing an H16 engine , a layout previously used only in aviation , for the new three-litre formula in 1966 . |
| 18 | He drank my drink because I said something about all the money he was always flashing around and then he made a dirty crack about … |
| 19 | He did not immediately contemplate any drastic change in his filmmaking aesthetic , since his first Hollywood picture , Rebecca ( 1940 ) , was based on a British book and used British actors , and it was some time before he made a completely American picture . |
| 20 | Two minutes later Leota was seen at his exciting best when he made a midfield break from 45 yards which took him clean through the Rovers defence , and when Taewa scored his second try in the 72nd minute Rovers looked to be subsiding fast . |
| 21 | Dr Gysi made his attempt at power before 2,700 demoralised party delegates at this weekend 's emergency congress as if delivering an impassioned plea in court , throwing up his arms and heaving his shoulders as he made a point . |
| 22 | He has now become a passionate enthusiast for the Clarke reforms , and he made a speech of spectacular sycophancy in support of the health service bill on Monday . |
| 23 | Accompanied by Sophia Rahman , he made a most imaginative choice of programme — the surprisingly neglected Schumann A minor Sonata , Dallapiccola 's Two Studies and , best of all , Szymanowski 's Nocturne and Tarantella . |
| 24 | Mr MacGregor rejected Opposition charges that the Government 's plans had been torpedoed by the banks ' withdrawal when he made a statement to the Commons yesterday . |
| 25 | He made a large personal fortune , partly from fees , partly from shrewd investments . |
| 26 | In 1927 he made a triumphant visit there , and convinced himself that the large-scale dramatic compositions he favoured would suit the Soviet vision . |
| 27 | In 1967 he made a gross , slap-and-tickle version of ‘ The Taming of the Shrew ’ with Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor . |
| 28 | Although he made a huge bonfire of his papers and correspondence in 1916 , and kept it going for a few days , Edward preserved all her letters along with his notebooks . |
| 29 | He made a face . |
| 30 | If he made a joke and she realized it was one , she used to butt him in the chest — she was much shorter — and say ‘ You 're silly ! ’ |