Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb -s] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ And then in the living room we 've got an umbrella stand with two stout walking sticks and a Samurai ceremonial sword , and on the Welsh dresser in the kitchen there 's a lemon squeezer full of ammonia , and on top of the wardrobe in the bedroom he 's got an air pistol that fires steel ball-bearings … |
| 2 | Yeah , Mike , Mike and , he 's erm I do n't think he 's , I think he will be able to in future he 's got a meeting arranged tonight and he 'll be here next time . |
| 3 | At every stride he has to turn a corner |
| 4 | you think that if you work if you , if you think about it , in other words he has married a woman who is the mother of a wife of his father who he calls mother . |
| 5 | ‘ By signalling the end for the trade union block vote he has brought an air of realism which was so markedly absent under Neil Kinnock . ’ |
| 6 | There it is , God in his mercy and his love , in his graciousness he has provided a gift , a free package gift for you and for me forgiveness , salvation but there is our responsibility of receiving it or taking hold of it , of experiencing it . |
| 7 | In his fourteen years as a fancier he has converted a hobby into something of a triumphant campaign . |
| 8 | But in the last few months he 's had a lot to cope with following the death of his best friend in a road accident . |
| 9 | ‘ Ever since he was a boy he has had a fear of them . |
| 10 | Evening he 's earned a pint of beer I think tonight . |
| 11 | The shop he calls has a copy , agrees to keep it over , and the secret comes out when he is asked to give his name — J R Hartley . |
| 12 | In the last ten years he has used a prostitute about 20 times . |
| 13 | Establishing the defence might be very important to the manufacturer if over the years he has supplied a lot of such gloves and a lot of wearers have suffered arthritis because of them . |
| 14 | Things he predicts have a habit of coming true . |
| 15 | He 's selling the Widgie He 's got a Widgie a posh |
| 16 | For almost a decade he has led a series of protest demonstrations outside abortion clinics throughout England , running foul of the law on countless occasions . |
| 17 | Thank god he 's got a circuit breaker . |
| 18 | Remember that the opportunist thief travels light , but your garden shed will probably contain all the tackle he needs to force an entry ( plus a ladder to reach inaccessible areas ) , so fit a good quality lock or padlock to your shed door , and put in window locks , or screw windows to the frame for maximum security . |
| 19 | In drawing a miner he has made a self-portrait . |
| 20 | In middle age he has experienced a breakdown , an identity crisis , which followed a long illness and an operation . |
| 21 | He 's got a lot of matches this week , he 's got he was on duty last night from six to ten , this morning he 's got a match , tonight he 's got a match ! |
| 22 | After meeting staff he has made a plea to agency chiefs to delay the transfer so that full consultations can take place . |
| 23 | At some point or other in his career he has played a transvestite , a hunchback , a priest , a sado-masochist and an assortment of thugs . |
| 24 | When you see our Ronnie slicing the lips and nose from a man he has taken a dislike to , and relishing it , then you know what violence really is . |
| 25 | Cooke is not explicitly trying to resolve structure-action tensions but the approach he adopts implies a resolution , albeit one which is essentially historicist . |
| 26 | And he has to week before he gets any money he has to work a week in arrears , you know , they they |
| 27 | In the loft of his small terraced cottage he has constructed a training facility : a hinged wooden board dotted with artificial holds , which can be swung to any angle from very overhanging to ludicrously overhanging . |
| 28 | Star Trek he 's got a pair of them . |
| 29 | JOHN THAW has taken his role in the television version of A Life In Provence so much to heart he has bought a home in the idyllic French region . |
| 30 | Kenneth , last seen nineteen eighty two , lived in the Sleaford area , a retired senior nursing officer at Hospital Holbeach , er m may have married for a second time , Kenneth he 's got a son Ian Mark . |