Example sentences of "he [vb past] the [noun sg] [verb] " 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 | Boy wound down the window so that he could see the stars better , and then he made the man kiss him , right there . |
| 7 | He made the putt to open up a five-shot lead . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | But he made the effort to sound firm and reassuring as he spoke up again to quell any panic among the assembled youngsters . |
| 11 | He made the effort to convince Kirk that the role could be expanded , but nothing could persuade Douglas the role was worthy of him . |
| 12 | He unlocked the companionway hatch that led to the yacht 's interior , glancing over his shoulder as he folded the doors back . |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | Fire sub-officer Paul , 33 , knew nothing could be done for the car couple , but he realised the lorryman had not got out . |
| 15 | But on closer inspection he realised the writer had actually turned out quite a nifty show . |
| 16 | Robert Montague was staying at a friend 's house in Cornwall one long , wet weekend in early December when he realised the moment had come to strike . |
| 17 | He presumed the noise came from the same motorbike he had seen on his first day at school and he asked Mould about it . |
| 18 | He passed the day skulking around cafes , and when Georges met him by chance later on he confessed he 'd been beaten up in his flat because he 'd agreed to do a favour for someone and it had gone wrong . |
| 19 | He passed the time Dreamwalking . |
| 20 | When she tackled him in the wood , he produced the gun to frighten her off but she wrested it from him and shot him . |
| 21 | It was the course of action set by the Duke of Windsor when he quit the throne to marry Wallis Simpson . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Reluctantly , he agreed the exchange had taken place , and I rushed the story to London . |
| 24 | Michael Heseltine , President of the Board of Trade , said he agreed the merger raised competition issues but concluded the public interest would be better served by not referring the deal . |
| 25 | He said he agreed the merger raised competition issues but concluded the public interest would be better served by not referring the deal . |
| 26 | He agreed the team had infringed the defendants ' rights when they wrote a book on the case . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | ( 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 . ) |