Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were a player short and he made up the numbers for us . ’ |
| 2 | When Kevin O'Reilly , who runs the only pharmacy in Ederney , returned to the province , he made up the product for one psoriasis victim . |
| 3 | She could hear Penry moving about upstairs as he made up the other bed . |
| 4 | When he asked the new tsar to give land to the peasants he made plain the other . |
| 5 | He made fast the rope round Trent 's neck to the handhold beside the companionway leading down to the head in the port hull . |
| 6 | He made out the high-backed chair to one side of the fire and sank into it , sitting tall and erect , careful not to crease his dinner jacket . |
| 7 | Carson hoped not , as he made out the shape of something like Liawski 's diaries over by the skirting board of the opposite wall . |
| 8 | He made out the black shape of another tunnel mouth . |
| 9 | Then he made out the thousands of tiny rings that studded the ceiling . |
| 10 | By night he lived out the fantasies he had internalised from avidly watching his collection of over 6,000 slasher videos and pornographic manga comic-books . |
| 11 | Allan said when he realised how the football disaster , which claimed 95 lives , had left his son . |
| 12 | He stopped short of understanding Christianity because when he thought about that , he laid aside the receptive imagination with which he allowed himself to appreciate myth and became rigidly narrow and empiricist . |
| 13 | He laid down the letter at breakfast with a white face . |
| 14 | He laid out the argument : the Mirror had gone to Maxwell and dived downmarket , along with its Sunday counterpart ; the Mail on Sunday was repositioning itself after its disastrous launch , but had still not recovered . |
| 15 | He laid out the newspaper on the carpet and stripped off the bowl 's clingfilm covering . |
| 16 | And Thucydides describes no sharper conflict than that between the aggressive Spartan Sthenelaidas ( i.86 ) and the more cautious King Archidamus ; for the supposedly more ‘ open ’ society of Athens he records only the views of Pericles and an anonymous delegation which does not contradict him . |
| 17 | Mosley 's turn to political anti-semitism was signalled by his Albert Hall meeting in October 1934 when he attacked both the ‘ big ’ Jews who were seen as a threat to the nation 's economy and the ‘ little ’ Jews who allegedly swamped the cultural identity of localities where they settled . |
| 18 | He attacked both the British and the Russians for their " imperialist " policies in Iran and called for a free , independent Iran with a constitutional monarchy . |
| 19 | He plunged up the embankment , taking a grateful breath of fresh air , then turned and extended a large imperative hand to Catherine Crane and pulled her up beside him . |
| 20 | Without waiting for the others he plunged down the bank into the stream , slipping and slithering heedlessly over the protruding roots and rocks . |
| 21 | When he wins he turns up the next week as if nothing 's happened — and as if he has n't got a penny to his name , that 's the difference between Seve and others — what sets him apart a bit , I suppose . |
| 22 | He turns up the Holloway Road , with its rows of pubs for men a long way from home . |
| 23 | In one letter to Susanna Highmore , he turns down the offer of a sonnet to be prefixed to Leapor 's second volume : |
| 24 | Mr Rabin said he favoured allowing some deportees to join the Palestinian delegation , but he ruled out the two deportees on the reported Egyptian list because they were PLO officials . |
| 25 | He ruled out the idea of travelling just as batsman . |
| 26 | He ruled out the deployment of ECOMOG in areas under his control , arguing that this " amounted to the abandonment of Liberia 's sovereignty to a foreign force controlled by a military command " . |
| 27 | He 's extremely cheerful , if somewhat misguided , as he points out the many features of the room , and mentions that the public rooms in the Cottage will be opened at seven o'clock . |
| 28 | He points out the surprising truth that an accurate random sample of 1,000 people will work whether it is taken from a population of 5,000 , five million or 50 million . |
| 29 | While he points out the ‘ approximation of class and status came to an end ’ and that ‘ traditional class structures broke down ’ . |
| 30 | Unconcerned that it took him more than a year to prepare for , he points out the record wait for a first speech is 40 years and even Margaret Thatcher took 18 months before she made hers . |