Example sentences of "he [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Mr Raisin says he doubts the Labour Party 's criticism that the budget itself is too small . |
| 2 | He made the simple introduction with formal precision . |
| 3 | Yet before he made the astonishing leap from Paupers ' Alley with Cambridge United to Millionaires ' Row with Manchester City Dublin , 23 , had to learn his lessons the hard way . |
| 4 | In presenting the report to the national church extension committee , he made the astonishing statement that there is no longer any dire poverty in Scotland . |
| 5 | Karajan 's response to Honegger 's Symphonie liturgique and its near contemporary , Strauss 's Metamorphosen , of which he made the first recording in 1947 , provides specifically musical evidence of Karajan 's priorities and allegiances that I have yet to see considered by those who have become so concerned to analyse and recycle often erroneous information about his alleged political sympathies before and during the Second World War . |
| 6 | He made the first recording of the human electrocardiogram in 1887 , an important advance which , in other hands , had widespread applications in medicine . |
| 7 | Now in his 40s , he made the first solo ascent of Point Young on the Grandes Jorasses in August . |
| 8 | In 1933 he made the first crossing of the uninhabited interior wilderness of Iceland with a wheeled vehicle — his bicycle . |
| 9 | Oh well it er General , he made the first road . |
| 10 | He made the first goal with a delightful , a dazzling run . |
| 11 | Born the son of a bank official , he was 23 when he made the five-week voyage to Britain aboard the Northern Star armed with an Auckland University degree to take up his scholarship place at Balliol College , Oxford , in the early 1960s . |
| 12 | I heard Duncan on the 606 show and he made the classic comment about Jimmy Armfield that ‘ the manager 's indecision is final ’ . |
| 13 | History has shown that he made the right choice . |
| 14 | And , as he enters the last week of a career which spans more than 30 years , he knows he made the right choice . |
| 15 | Anfield 's record-breaking striker is certain that neither Blackburn Rovers ' financial clout nor their present League position can ever console the Scot that he made the right decision on that dramatic day in February 1991 . |
| 16 | Obviously , I think he made the right decision . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ No , it is n't Matthew , although I pray he made the right decision . ’ |
| 18 | His new house , built of hammer dressed limestone , with Westmorland slates for the roof , abutted on to the remains of the original house which he made into a service wing , and on the south side he made the grand entrance . |
| 19 | In the Herdman case the taxpayer argued that s739 could not apply if the taxpayer was not ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom when he made the relevant transfer . |
| 20 | He made the Eastern breakthrough via his Yugoslav publishers , who thought the non-violent message would be well received by Russians . |
| 21 | In turn he made the polite mistake of asking her what she believed socially and politically . |
| 22 | Thereupon he made the surprising comment that the agitation about his List was inspired by anti-Semitism . |
| 23 | Dissatisfied as he was , it was while Bishop of Bristol that he made the moral stand which guaranteed that his name would be heard for three centuries whenever Cornish men were gathered together . |
| 24 | Later I ask if the years of drug abuse — he made the lost classic ‘ On The Beach ’ using honey slides ( lumps of hashish melted in honey ) , he almost did n't appear in The Band 's Last Waltz movie because there was a massive , subsequently disguised , lump of cocaine hanging from his left nostril — are still wearing heavy on him . |
| 25 | After the line , ‘ gradually the parrot began to take on a rare significance in his mind ’ , he made the following annotation : ‘ Change the animal : make it a dog instead of a parrot . |
| 26 | Then he made the small finger-gesture , as among professionals , for ‘ switching clients ’ . |
| 27 | However , he made the great mistake of not living to collect it . |
| 28 | He made the short journey to sample the fare of the proud dinner ladies from Wheatley Park School . |
| 29 | After he had taken his fill and sampled everything , he would then collect a jug of ale from the pantry and depart along the hallway with the tap-tap of his walking cane making an ominous rhythm on the tiled floor ; the sound becoming muffled as he made the difficult journey up the wide ornate staircase to his bedroom . |
| 30 | As he made the conventional response , Robert felt a curious exaltation , as if the phrase had made such unpleasant things as Dr Ali melt away . |