Example sentences of "[verb] he [verb] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.

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1 In this extract Roddy 's parents want him to take up a useful hobby :
2 Kendo then took the prey from Fitz , having let him tear out a large piece of the monkey 's intestines .
3 After all , if he could n't get into the England team while the ban was in force , what chance has he got once a world-class player like Gatting becomes available again ?
4 When she saw a test of it she was extremely pleased and told him to run off a few hundred yards .
5 ‘ We feel we should fight Mr Butters and let him take on a white elephant while we play elsewhere for a year and maybe we can return to Belle Vue . ’
6 Flavia went on following her train of thought , ‘ I can not see him doing even a disinterested thing if it went against a rule . ’
7 I ca n't remember him making either a glaring mistake , or a top class save .
8 ‘ I sometimes wonder what people must think to hear him haggling over a few dollars .
9 It would be placing too heavy a burden on an employer to require him to carry out a formal medical investigation and , even if he did , such an investigation would rarely be fruitful because of the transient nature of the employee 's symptoms and complaints .
10 As it happened he pulled up a shattered Kersil seven from home .
11 Now , £100 000 from the Department of Industry has enabled him to set up a full-time commercial unit to analyse samples sent from Europe as well as Britain .
12 Chaplin invited Mayer to land one on him , and L B promptly obliged by punching Chaplin in the face , sending him sprawling over a potted plant .
13 The improvements keep coming and have inspired him to draw up a four-point plan for Vets :
14 They thrust him stumbling up a winding stairway cut in the rock , and along another passage into a large , smoky room , blackened and bare but for certain engines and implements that stood against the walls , and a low brazier in the centre .
15 In the weeks that followed he built up a regular round of customers and boasted that it was better than going to work , especially on cold winter mornings .
16 She watched him draw out a hot dog , place it on a bun .
17 Even if I allow him to scribble down a few paragraphs of his own fiction ( and I do not see why I should ) it still follows that any words he might write must in the first instance be composed by me .
18 The prince had asked him to take over a small present ; Simon had stuck it in a pocket and thought no more about it , only when he saw Constanza he decided to deliver it in person .
19 She heard Ben come into the market-room , but when the kitchen door did not immediately open , she went over to it and saw him throwing off a wet sack that he had been wearing over his head and shoulders like a cape .
20 She saw him pick up a long strip of heavy material .
21 When he was certain they were not being followed he darted down a narrow , stinking court and knocked at a door .
22 The driver might admit he has n't a current certificate and the relevant conversation can be reproduced in the officer 's statement of evidence .
23 Then he remembered the guard back at Wissembourg and knew he had only a limited time to cover his tracks .
24 We all knew he had only a few weeks left to live .
25 I thought he 'd just a few girls .
26 I will let him see therein a new abyss .
27 ’ I think he has quite a genuine scientific interest in how promotions may be engineered .
28 But French officials were initially suspicious and the Soviet KGB security police forced him to turn down a French passport .
29 He put his hands to his throat , anything to ease the pain and help him to get just a little air …
30 Seldom , indeed , had he drawn up a preliminary bibliography before his attention was distracted by some new or revived interest in something entirely different .
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