Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he was Prime Minister he made little personal impact on television , bared his teeth at the cameras like an old dog , and was generally aloof and buffer-like . |
| 2 | He recognized his limitations , but he made little attempt to develop another technique . |
| 3 | Only last year , on the instructions of Luther Reynolds , David had brought the boy out of the mines and begun to teach him the way of business ; Matthew often accompanied him on his rounds , and though he made little attempt to befriend David , the boy worked , and learned , and spent so many hours closeted in the ‘ den ’ with the old man , that Beth was obliged to voice her concern . |
| 4 | He brought out all the papal arguments and the curial forces from legates to censures , but while he obtained acknowledgement of his final authority in matrimonial matters , he made little other headway . |
| 5 | He joined Ipswich Town , for whom he made over 150 appearances , helped them to gain League status and re-appeared at Selhurst Park with them in 1938–39 , and then again after the war . |
| 6 | Lemon is best known for his involvement with Sunderland ; he made over 100 appearances for the Roker men . |
| 7 | He made over his share in Leopold 's estate to Nannerl in return for 1,000 gulden of ready cash , which he desperately needed . |
| 8 | In 1456–8 he was certainly in England , for he made over all his property to others by letters patent ; he was at the time verger to the collegiate chapel of St Stephen , Westminster . |
| 9 | If , later on , he made rather too much of his lucky escape from one of Hitler 's flying bombs , describing the eerie cutting out of the engine noise seconds before it dropped , the blinding flash , the tall plume of smoke as it came to its final resting place in what was known as Bomb Alley — the route from bases in the Pas de Calais , via Kent to the capital — it was , perhaps , understandable . |
| 10 | A native Russian of genius , L. Tolstoy , had been blinded by his feelings in the famine of 1891–2 when he made mildly inaccurate statements about the Tsarist relief administration . |
| 11 | When he came back from Livorno in the late summer of 1913 he made straight for the Café Rotonde , to be greeted rapturously by artists and models on the terrace . |
| 12 | He made straight for the big warhorse , mounted , said something to Will , and started along the street . |
| 13 | Building on the Warsaw Philharmonic 's pre-war advocacy of such Polish composers as Szymanowski ( of whose Third Symphony and ballet Harnasie he made particularly strong recordings ) , Rowicki moulded the orchestra into a responsive vehicle for an exceptionally talented native generation : collaborations with Penderecki , Gorecki , Lutoslawski and a dozen other composers were a regular feature of the National Philharmonic 's concert season and not just confined to the Warsaw Autumn festival of contemporary music . |
| 14 | In his 50 years of Trotskyism he made not one small dent in the capitalist system , but he mortally wounded the movement he claimed to lead . |
| 15 | He made just two birdies . |
| 16 | He made just 20 League appearances for Orient but had already done enough to convince Wednesday to splash out £350,000 for his services last November , quite a sum for a player who was just 17 at the time . |
| 17 | Well , you could have put that scene he made on at a theatre in the West End and charged for tickets , I reckon . |
| 18 | He was well-aware of the sense in which he made up what happened to him , imagined his misfortune . |
| 19 | Paul , he made up covered with bullet wounds . |
| 20 | He made up his mind — and won |
| 21 | But what he lacked in build he made up for in speed and skill , nipping in and out of solid defences with astounding ease . |
| 22 | While sobbing , he made up his mind . |
| 23 | I rushed to see a physiotherapist , John Harris , and he made up a little pad around it with a hole in the middle so that I would n't put any pressure on it . |
| 24 | He made up his mind to tell Miss Claybury in the morning that things must change , otherwise he could no longer stay in her employ . |
| 25 | Finally he made up his mind about something : he asked Changez about Jamila and how she was . |
| 26 | He had a light lunch in a small sandwich bar off the street called Crutched Friars , where monks once hobbled with one leg bound behind them to cause pain for the greater glory of God , and he made up his mind what he would do . |
| 27 | ‘ We were a player short and he made up the numbers for us . ’ |
| 28 | Suddenly , he made up his mind , and threw the nervousness aside . |
| 29 | He liked the Latin name so much that he made up a sort of rhyme about it and chanted this as he went upstairs : |
| 30 | He made up his mind he 'd never make the same mistake twice . |