Example sentences of "[verb] [adj] he [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had made sure he had a word with Robert . |
| 2 | Ted Parsons had got ashore , but when lying rock-still he felt a gun behind his ear and was captured . |
| 3 | To achieve this he creates a sense of the gap between the speaker and God by contrasting verbs of action which embody a sense of the dynamic power of the love of God to the speaker 's trapped stillness , and then resolves these apparent opposites as he perceives his stillness to be the very condition of the inner movement he desires . |
| 4 | He lifted the receiver two-handed , leaned his ear to make sure he had a dial tone , laid it down , dialled 01 for London and then the flash line in the Kensington apartment . |
| 5 | Before long the sweater was finished and the various parts stitched together with her usual professional finish , ready to post off to Penry next day to make certain he had a keepsake to remind him of his castaway . |