Example sentences of "he [verb] the [noun sg] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , as a concession , he made the call to summon the transporter . |
| 2 | The owner of Hummingbird House might be a surprisingly artistic , cultured hedonist , but here was a man , she decided , who liked the good things in life and did n't care how he made the money to acquire them … |
| 3 | He made the decision to lessen the angle of impact by closing the throttle , applying hard up elevator and full right rudder . |
| 4 | Over the years he visited a number of Buddhist centres around the country and he was about 25 when he made the decision to teach the faith through the then newly-acquired Pocklington centre , a grand Georgian house about 15 miles south of York . |
| 5 | David rose through the ranks from education officer to acting director of technical education during his years in Northern Rhodesia , but some years after the country gained independence he made the decision to leave . |
| 6 | He made the putt to open up a five-shot lead . |
| 7 | Kenneth Branagh claims he made the thing to finance his more ambitious upcoming Shakespeare projects but I 'm afraid that really is n't good enough . |
| 8 | He made the effort to say something pleasant to his wife and they drank a glass of wine together for the first time in weeks . |
| 9 | But he made the effort to sound firm and reassuring as he spoke up again to quell any panic among the assembled youngsters . |
| 10 | He made the effort to convince Kirk that the role could be expanded , but nothing could persuade Douglas the role was worthy of him . |
| 11 | Amongst the most important of these carefully plotted works are : de Falla 's The Three-Cornered Hat ( 1919 ) which originally accompanied a mime play and so fascinated Diaghilev that he commissioned the composer to enlarge it for Massine 's ballet ( see page 59 ) ; Vaughan William 's Job , commissioned by Diaghilev , was unused until de Valois created her important ‘ Masque for Dancing ’ ( 1931 ) ( this marked the inaugural performance of what has become The Royal Ballet ) ; Arthur Bliss ' Checkmate ( 1937 ) was choreographed by de Valois after both composer and choreographer had worked on the plot ; Prokofiev 's Romeo and Juliet was composed with the help of a Shakespearean theatre expert and has been used notably by Lavrovsky , Ashton and MacMillan ( see page 26 ) ; and Ashton provided a roughly outlined plot for Hans Werner Henze 's score for Ondine ( 1958 ) . |
| 12 | When she tackled him in the wood , he produced the gun to frighten her off but she wrested it from him and shot him . |
| 13 | It was the course of action set by the Duke of Windsor when he quit the throne to marry Wallis Simpson . |
| 14 | Wilcock was doing all right at Pageant , taking home $100 a week , but he quit the job to become the Village Voice 's news editor , at $25 . |
| 15 | Conditions of work were not pleasant ; landowners tried to get their estates cultivated by indentured labourers who had come out under a contract to work for some years for the man who paid for the journey or anyone to whom he sold the right to command their services . |
| 16 | He requested the judge to give Adams credit for having pleaded guilty , together with the fact that he had lost his job and because his marriage had broken up . |
| 17 | Chairman Ron Noades will soon reveal the figure , but he insists the decision to cut the wage bill at Selhurst Park is the right one . |
| 18 | John Moore , then Social Services Secretary , set this out explicitly in a key speech in autumn 1987 , when he argued the need to move from social protection towards attacking dependency . |
| 19 | ( Nevertheless , Mr Suharto 's step-brother , Probosutedjo , recently gave a lecture to a Muhammadiyah conference in which he argued the need to re-elect the president in 1992 . ) |
| 20 | No doubt the Scottish electorate will think that he drafted the Bill to suit himself . |
| 21 | It would have thrown light on Eliot 's attitude to the liturgy and to the drama , which in his view were indissolubly linked , though he realized the temptation to enjoy the emotions of the Mass for their own sake ; a point he had made in his ‘ Dialogue on Poetic Drama ’ . |
| 22 | In this he was only following in Lanfranc 's footsteps , and it is clear that he expected the king to exercise more authority in ecclesiastical affairs than the more ‘ advanced ’ ecclesiastical theorists of his time thought tolerable . |
| 23 | He expected the Archon to make a rousing speech , denouncing the forces of ill-reason and pleading for a suspension of the conflict , pending negotiations . |
| 24 | He gave important , but merely verbal assurances that the proceeds from it for the arts , heritage , sport and charities would not substitute other government funds for these areas and that he expected the cash to begin flowing at the end of 1994 . |
| 25 | The chief inspector of nuclear installations , Ron Anthony , now admits that he expected the inquiry to open later in the licensing procedure — which is independent of the inquiry 's deliberations . |
| 26 | Swedish Prime Minister Carl Bildt said he expected the project to proceed , but did not say whether the government would take the unprecedented step of overriding the commission ; environmentalists have pressed for a tunnel to be built instead . |
| 27 | John Kendall , economist at Baring Brothers , said he expected the market to continue to be firm next week . |
| 28 | At least for the short period of time he expected the combat to last . |
| 29 | And , reflecting the now-familiar language of the GCSE criteria , he asked the committee to look at the extent to which A levels test knowledge , understanding , and skills , and the implications of the assessment procedures for teaching and learning . |
| 30 | The first time , he asked the man to make love to him right there in the car , not to take him home yet but to do it to him there in the car . |