Example sentences of "he [verb] a [noun] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she 'd let him have a slice of the cake she 'd brought in if he gave her and her friend fruit or ice cream — whatever he 'd bought . |
| 2 | That afternoon ( it was all on a Sunday ) he saw Chamberlain , and having directly asked him whether he agreed with the others and having received an affirmative answer , told him to call a meeting of the Shadow Cabinet for the following day at which he would say goodbye . |
| 3 | Him had a dose of the screaming heebies . |
| 4 | Because of the apprehension of a breach of the peace on the part of the inspector , it was held , there arose a duty on him to prevent a breach of the peace , and because the appellant had sought to hold the meeting in defiance of his instructions , she was guilty of obstructing him in the execution of his duty . |
| 5 | He made a sketch of the inn they frequented , adjoining a big coal shed . |
| 6 | ‘ Sit down , ’ Harvey said , and he made a flick of the finger and said , ‘ Mr Dempsey from Eire , and my name 's Newbegin . |
| 7 | Waiting for him was the illuminated Lifeboat tram , on which he made a tour of the Promenade , waving to the crowds and commenting favourably on Blackpool 's modern streamlined trams . |
| 8 | Perhaps he thought that if he made a success of the concert party , word would get around amongst show business that here was someone to keep an eye on , and his big chance might come ; that someone important in the music world might come up to him with a contract in his hand and sign him up for the next ten years as a successor to Sir Malcolm Sargeant . |
| 9 | Here we saw the professionalism of Bennett when he made a study of the factors that impinged upon the operational height aspect . |
| 10 | The Arabic , for example , is ambiguous in respect of whether it is the copy or the itself that Yusuf Bali — who held the kadilik of Bursa for a time in the 840s-wrote ; and , on the evidence of the signature alone , it seems entirely possible that at some point , perhaps during his kadilik , he made a copy of the which Molla Husrev subsequently attested to be a true copy . |
| 11 | The van was empty but he made a note of the number and it checks . |
| 12 | Yet the very specially acute sense of deprivation found in the shorter of the two versions to be examined here argues the recognition of the possibility of the presence of just such joy ; " absence is not non-existence , and we are therefore entitled to repeat , " " come , come , come , come : " " " and both Rolle 's meditations on the Passion are such powerful works precisely because he enacts a sense of the gap between the body of sin and the joy of God and a longing to close it through penitence and love . |
| 13 | Before moving to London permanently in 1757 he produced A Plan of the River Nene , from Thrapston to Northampton , with the Mills and Locks necessary for the Navigation ( 1754 ) , and A Plan of the Road from Towcester in the County of Northampton , to Weston Gate in the County of Oxford ( 1756 ) . |
| 14 | He offers a view of the Gulf war that has become increasingly fashionable even though it is probably wrong . |
| 15 | The third main emphasis in his critique of the concept of the postmodern is to attempt to explain the hold exercised by a demonstrably deficient theory of culture and its dependence on a fundamentally irrationalist philosophy : which is to say he offers a politics of the postmodern . |
| 16 | He became a liveryman of the Poulterers ' Company in 1767 , and in the same year was admitted into the Honourable Artillery Company , in which he was to achieve some eminence . |
| 17 | He became a protector of the species four years ago at a time when badger baiting had reached alarming proportions . |
| 18 | In so doing he became a symbol of the age , and his poetry became its echoing music — with its brooding grandeur as well as its bleakness , its plangency as well as its ellipses , its rhythmical strength as well as its theatrical equivocations . |
| 19 | Outside the university , in July 1915 he became a chairman of the Glasgow munitions tribunal , but he proved ill-suited to handling its rowdy proceedings and was dismissed the following year . |
| 20 | In 1976 he became a member of the organising committee charged with the responsibility of welding a disparate group of UK aircraft companies into the nationalised British Aerospace group . |
| 21 | He became a member of the emasculated politburo when the invasion took place taking over from the wretched Mr Dubcek in April 1969 after branding him and his team ‘ extremists and rightwing forces . ’ |
| 22 | He became a member of the Royal Photographic Society and for his works for the Royal Geographical Society was made a life member in 1917 . |
| 23 | After the war , young Fred did a spell of duty in the Far East , mainly Hong Kong , where he became a member of the Marine Band . |
| 24 | In 1988 he became a member of the Board of Business in the Community . |
| 25 | Pugh suggested three ways in which Penn may have become aware of the Odiham Society 's initiative before he became a member of the society . |
| 26 | Immediately after , as I have previously noted , he became a member of the black segregationist sect , The Nation of Islam , and publicly denounced the white world and its domination over blacks . |
| 27 | He became a member of the Democratic Federation , later the Social Democratic Federation ( SDF ) , and was one of its few proletarian activists in the early days of the newly emerging socialist movement . |
| 28 | He became a member of the Institute of Mechanical Engineers in 1860 . |
| 29 | Before leaving Ireland he became a member of the revolutionary Irish Republican Brotherhood ( IRB ) . |
| 30 | He became a member of the Society for the Promotion of Arts , Manufactures and Commerce and of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers . |