Example sentences of "he [verb] a very " in BNC.
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| 1 | No doubt about it , he made a very timely exit one way or the other . ’ |
| 2 | I saw three movements and told him the Sonata would sound better if he made a very flashy last movement , but with content . |
| 3 | For H. G. Wells , the change to Bonar Law marked a distasteful new attitude by the Unionists ; when Balfour 's " essential liberalism came face to face with this new baseness of commercialized imperialism , with all its push and energy , he made a very poor fight for it . |
| 4 | Personally , I think that in choosing to wed a nice girl like Eunice Gray and have a son he made a very sensible move . |
| 5 | He made a very sound case that only the Pathfinders should receive the benefit of H.S developments and that it was wrong for the Main Force to have the device . |
| 6 | I just do not know what aircraft this was , I had never seen such a type before , but he made a very cautious circuit and then to my amazement an approach to land despite the red Very lights pooped off from the control tower . |
| 7 | He made a very exciting companion for the evening ! ’ |
| 8 | He lived a very retired life ; gave up games , and took exercise by occasional short sharp runs ; and concentrated . |
| 9 | He lived a very isolated existence and was something of a recluse . |
| 10 | He lived a very wilful life , and the fear of chaos had always haunted him from childhood . |
| 11 | He planned a very large church but only the baptistry was ever completed ( in 1856 ) . |
| 12 | Stirling said that he had to fly up to Beirut where he met a very senior French general , who promptly said ‘ Non ’ . |
| 13 | ‘ I am cynical , but I believe he offers a very small , narrow , tiny window of opportunity . |
| 14 | He became a very rich man but he he er ran his company based on the golden rule |
| 15 | There he became a very popular member of the local community . |
| 16 | Politics of oil : Just before his attachment to the premier 's office at Number 10 Downing Street , he got a very good grounding in oil politics as head of the FO 's Middle East department . |
| 17 | He owned a very large portion of Southern Bohemia , perhaps a hundred thousand hectares . |
| 18 | He , he looks a very persuasive kind of character does n't he erm I mean he 's , he 's quite sort of erm well a nice person well he |
| 19 | He looks a very strong sort of person but he walks |
| 20 | Another feature of Houghton 's work is that he develops a very complex model for collecting logistic information , based upon sampling of the issue records of individual books in various categories — shelf stock , returned books , withdrawn books . |
| 21 | He found a very strong field on and around the stone , much greater than background levels . |
| 22 | When he again came to visit he found a very different situation , with the starving Buttery spirit stretching out in vain for the wholesome food on the larder shelves . |
| 23 | Burroughs employs an agent , whose job it is to keep him abreast of what 's happening in various fields of art and music — he 's 80 years old now and he lives a very secluded life in Kansas . |
| 24 | My second point , and it refers to again er something that Barton Willmore referred to and that 's the question er an engine of growth , and it seems to me that that that such a settlement would become an en engine of growth in in the countryside , not least because of of the it would become self fulfilling , er and it would be the obvious sort of sink hole , as Mr Thomas said , for for subsequent land allocations , I think , erm this this point has been touched upon by both the representatives from Leeds City Councils and from Cleveland , Leeds City Council appear not to want it in the Leeds York corridor for just that reason , the representative from Cleveland , who unfortunately is n't here today erm does n't want it in the North of the county for for what I understand to be to be that same reason , erm and the Inspector at the Stone Basset erm enquiry in Oxfordshire , and I I do refer th to this in my evidence , he he drew a very similar conclusion about this when he said , and I quote , once destep once established the new town would generate a momentum of growth that would be difficult to contain , such growth , if allowed , could further harm the rural character of the countryside and the villages in this part of Oxfordshire , I think that conclusion can be applied to North Yorkshire , and I certainly have n't heard anything that would convince me that that such growth once it started could could be controlled , and indeed the the record of controlling growth against erm projected requirements in the structure plan to date has has not been good , witness earlier comments on the structure plan overshoot . |
| 25 | Since he has a very fluent running style , with little lateral arm movement and a very low leg lift , it is often hard to tell when Zarei is weary , but at the 6-Day race on the Gateshead Stadium track last October , it was clear he ran to his absolute limit . |
| 26 | He has a very narrow range of acquaintance . ’ |
| 27 | He has a very good knowledge and superb technique which enable him to sue every second of studio time . |
| 28 | ‘ He has a very strong character and poetry , painting and football are just different ways of expressing himself . |
| 29 | For this reason , like most finance directors , he has a very full schedule with engagements on most evenings . |
| 30 | ‘ He has a very good team here and he would be better off letting them do his talking for him . ’ |