Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he does not like to be reminded of the gaffes he made as deputy chairman — branding the young unemployed as workshy , or musing on Radio Ulster whether Ian Paisley might like to be prime minister of a united Ireland . |
| 2 | It was not the only mistake he made at Swindon Town . |
| 3 | He made for London , where he resumed his former way of life , a mixture of study and worldly pleasures , but never losing sight of the main objective . |
| 4 | Ice on the north coast of Spitsbergen made it impossible to pass Amsterdam Island , and so he made for Franz Josef Land , discovered only in 1873–4 , and partly mapped . |
| 5 | The 50-minute film he made for Arena suggests why : Last Supper — Frank on Frank looks like a parody of the excesses of Sixties avant-garde film-making . |
| 6 | I especially I do n't think so after after the very er impressive speech he made on Friday . |
| 7 | It was an admission that he was growing old ; vet the brief appearance he made on stage , with his white beard , long robe and crown , was telling enough , and would never be forgotten . |
| 8 | Above : A Jaffna schoolboy shows a drawing he made of helicopters strafing his home town . |
| 9 | Well er sometimes he he made of point of always being in the house not later than We 'll say nine o'clock , unless there was something special on . |
| 10 | Nizan 's exceptionally good grasp of the Spanish political situation was doubtless the product of numerous visits that he made to Spain during 1936 . |
| 11 | He accompanied King James on the visit which he made to Scotland to impose episcopacy , and in his sermons there supported him in this venture , which was to have calamitous results for the monarchy in the next reign . |
| 12 | It is thought that the work may have been presented to the Queen by her Privy Councillor and Ambassador , Sir James Melville ( whose signature appears on the title-page ) , perhaps following a visit he made to Italy . |
| 13 | That he had on previous occasions overcome his antipathy to women is suggested by remarks he made to others . |
| 14 | The former head of stone and sculpture conservation at the Victoria and Albert Museum has been aware of the problems since a visit he made to Agra in 1985 . |
| 15 | The contrast between the two kings was ruefully noted by Louis himself in a remark he made to Walter Map : |
| 16 | My father had shot one , as had the Duke of Gloucester during a hunting safari he made to Chelalo in the Arussi mountains after Haile Selassie 's coronation ; otherwise , few Europeans had even seen a mountain nyala , soft was a prize that both Haig-Thomas and I were keen to secure . |
| 17 | Pity he did n't fulfil a promise he made to Darlington Business Venture when he came up last November . |
| 18 | Another example of the rich and regal possibilities which religion offered Cnut is provided by a visit which he made to Glastonbury on 30 November of a year which may have been 1032 , when William of Malmesbury says that he laid a cloak decorated with peacocks on the tomb of Edmund Ironside . |
| 19 | Will the Minister have a care with Torrells school in view of the mistake that he made with Stratford school ? |
| 20 | He left England on 27 October and two days later he lectured at Hamburg on " The Idea of a Christian Society " ; the tour , which he made with Arnold Toynbee , included visits to nine cities , but he complained later that not the least exhausting part of it had been the expectation from his hosts that lie was some kind of oracle as well as a poet . |
| 21 | Years later he will show me the sketches he made with mud and chalk in the trenches , of fragile running men and tangled machines , lit up by exploding shells like arrested frames of film . |
| 22 | To complete a bad day , Souness has had an FA warning following remarks he made about referee Stephen Lodge after the goalless draw with Southampton at Anfield last February . |
| 23 | SPRINGFIELDS employee Bal Misry has been awarded £2,392 for a money-saving suggestions he made about weld samples . |
| 24 | He did this without ever losing sight of the contrasts he made between steps of each sequence because these were controlled by the particular rhythm , tempo and quality of the music . |
| 25 | In 1906 he made over Cliveden to his newly married elder son , and bought Hever Castle in Kent , which he reconstructed and where he housed his collection of pictures and artefacts . |
| 26 | But with money he made from oil trading in Nigeria , a series of quick-fire deals and massive development work in Cornwall , he has built a fortune of around £75 million . |
| 27 | Well I suppose he might have asked some of the fitters , but I doubt it somehow seeing some of the acquisitions that he made from Llanberis when they were closing down there . |
| 28 | One film part that Crawford did accept was that of the White Rabbit in Alice 's Adventures In Wonderland , which he made by day at Pinewood Studios during the stage run of No Sex , Please . |
| 29 | In 1770 at the age of nineteen he went to Italy , and a volume of drawings of friezes , urns , and classical ornaments which he made in Rome is preserved in the Mellon Collection : he later told the diarist , Joseph Farington [ q.v. ] , that he had become well acquainted with Piranesi , and that while abroad he had kept a journal written in Italian but had subsequently destroyed it because he was embarrassed by its poor linguistic quality . |
| 30 | Mr Singh repeated a statement he made in parliament on Wednesday that a Pakistani failure to hand over the Memons would have serious implications . |