Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With Edie , he made drawing expeditions to Little Chart Forstal , Frittenden and Tenterden . |
| 2 | He made moving reference to its founding philosophy . |
| 3 | At the same moment he made stabbing movements , at shoulder height , with the bat . |
| 4 | Towards the end of his life he was an enthusiastic supporter of British involvement in the war of 1914–18 , for which he made recruiting speeches . |
| 5 | He made swishing noises indicating the beating of wings . |
| 6 | There was the speech he made asking people to listen to his point of view . |
| 7 | Celtic did have the ball in the net in ten minutes , but Frank McAvennie was clearly offside when he pounced to beat Theo Smelders from eight yards . |
| 8 | Already one of the trumpeters-in-ordinary from 30 March 1688 , he seems to have joined the court band as a musician-in-ordinary in 1695 ; he became serjeant-trumpeter in 1707 on the death of William Shore , his uncle or , less probably , brother , and he lived to serve George II . |
| 9 | The Rhodian aristocratic merchants among whom he lived had hierarchy , but not extravagance . |
| 10 | He lived to see South Africa bend instead . |
| 11 | When it was decided that Mr Brown would soon be fit to go home , sister contacted the warden of the flats in which he lived to discuss arrangements with her . |
| 12 | In Scintilla ( 1641 ) he attacked printing monopolies , named monopolists , and urged that the Stationers ' Company should be run more democratically . |
| 13 | If he cared to make use of it , station and train fulfilled the role of a social centre for the suburban male , a forum for the exchange of news , the making of new acquaintances and contacts , the publication of requirements , even the collection of money for charities . |
| 14 | So pleased was Mehmed II with this answer that he planned to seat Molla Gurani on his right and Molla Husrev on his left . |
| 15 | The tsar probably dissolved the committee in December 1855 on the grounds of inefficiency rather than because he planned to treat writers more liberally , but while he planned a suitable alternative censorship became less stringent . |
| 16 | He planned to take care of her himself over the next five days , he told her . |
| 17 | As a teenager he planned to open shops supplying the stuff modern youngsters ’ dressing tables are weighed down with . |
| 18 | He was well received by Mrs Noble and her daughter Mary , and he planned to visit Mr Tarrant , the Unitarian minister , before spending the evening with Harry Hooton . |
| 19 | He planned to turn Bishopthorpe into a retreat house and to put the archbishop into a small house nearby called the Chantry . |
| 20 | He planned to rebuild Stornoway as a model town complete even to the Art Gallery . |
| 21 | Williams told a press conference at the IS last month that he planned to study law from September . |
| 22 | In 1685 he planned to raise London for James Scott , Duke of Monmouth [ q.v. ] , during the Monmouth rebellion . |
| 23 | He planned to establish work centres where labourers who were miserably paid by the tradesmen of Bath would receive an honest wage . |
| 24 | He planned to attack Pentonville Prison in London and release the Fenian prisoners there … ’ |
| 25 | He passed bivouacking troops on their way up , and had to stand in gateways while supply columns clattered by , or lines of ambulances rumbled back . |
| 26 | Boulton happened to be a creditor of Roebuck and to cover the debt he agreed to take Roebuck 's two-thirds share of Watt 's patent . |
| 27 | He agreed to take part in a Liverpool Polytechnic experiment to assess the effect of stress on referees , by monitoring the heartbeat and pulse , taking other factors such as fitness into account . |
| 28 | David Emanuel , has an enviable clientele , but with a daughter at the College , he agreed to take charge of the charity event . |
| 29 | By the beginning of February 1989 he had enough to convince him that it was real , and he agreed to go public by talking about it at the American Physical Society meeting in Baltimore the following May . |
| 30 | At the briefing he agreed to see Alfred , while Kersey would talk to the son-in-law , Barry Morse . |