Example sentences of "[prep] a [adj] [noun] and he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gave up farming and opened a restaurant in Glasgow but his new businesses failed after a few years and he left Scotland to live in Rugby until his death in 1937 . |
| 2 | He used to come into the shop after a little while and he 'd go back in the kitchen again and he 'd come back again later on . |
| 3 | The weight of the Zodiac plucked him out of the cockpit like a pip out of a ripe olive and he screamed with the terror of drowning as he struck the water . |
| 4 | Scamp had done thirteen months of a two-year stretch and he could 've got out in a coupla months more if he 'd kept his nose clean . |
| 5 | CASWELL is n't very stealthy at the best of times : stand him within ten feet of a fragile object and he 'll break it just by looking at it . |
| 6 | He was dressed in the garb of a Catholic priest and he bore an uncanny resemblance to the now legendary Spencer Tracy . |
| 7 | He was a member of a Scottish organisation and he was known as Aberdeen Angus . |
| 8 | The hostility which this aroused , as well as his role as royal guardian of London , resulted in his death at the hands of a furious mob and he thus became the first bishop since Becket to be murdered . |
| 9 | He came of a labouring family and he himself began work in the local cotton industry at the age of ten . |
| 10 | It came in India in 1974–5 when he began with 93 and 107 ; this proved to be something of a false dawn and he had an unhappy time in Australia in 1975–6 , but he worked on his technique and finally established himself in England in 1976 with 592 runs at 65 , including a century in each innings on a poor Old Trafford pitch . |
| 11 | Although he survived the blow to his head , the accident turned out to be the start of a rapid decline and he died just a few months later . |
| 12 | He always smoked cigarettes sensuously , as tough each one was of a special vintage and he wanted to fix its particular flavour on his palate . |
| 13 | Victor : he 's one of those guys you used to see in spunky films about British Tommies — sit him on an ammo box in the back of a rolling three-tonner and he 's asleep in a twinkling . |
| 14 | He said that 's when they put presents round and er he come in on the Friday on the Friday night and I mean I was in a right state , I mean we 've been in there about seven weeks and I was like at the point of like a nervous breakdown and he said to me how do you feel about me taking Matthew from you , so I said I he said I think you need a break . |
| 15 | common and he lived at Grimston and er he got this plot and er what was right next door to it was a sort of real big old li like a French chateau and he wanted a big ge red brick Georgian house , a real big one , sort of sitting at the back of this plot that the owner |
| 16 | You look like a sexy woman and he treated you like one . |
| 17 | He sat with me and watched Jo Spence 's documentary on her fight against a serious illness and he admired her for her spirit and for using her work to get through her situation . |
| 18 | He was on the dole for a long time and he used to just eat mashed potato and things like that . ’ |
| 19 | He was tempted to go in and get it over , but he had been away from his temporary headquarters for a long time and he did not even know if the body had bean recovered successfully . |
| 20 | He had been wanting reassurance for a long time and he had n't been getting any . |
| 21 | The big fella is more keyed up than I 've seen him for a long time and he is channelling all his energies into one final world cup fling . |
| 22 | He was far too pure for a young boy and he was n't very realistic . |
| 23 | We talked for a few minutes and he was in great spirits . |
| 24 | Yeah , even on the phone our Rob rings up and er , he 'll speak to me for a few minutes and he speaks |
| 25 | Now actually Mill did put the his erm this proposal forward , he was a member of parliament for a few years and he was trying to get this discussed in parliament . |
| 26 | But Steve had gone off with Maria Luisa for a few days and he was n't thinking about work , that was for sure , and she had n't her freedom anyway ! |
| 27 | The children skipped along with him for a few yards and he saw how beguiling their faces were , the large dark eyes , the straggle of thick black hair , the earnest looks of desperate innocence . |
| 28 | He left us for a glamorous Frenchwoman and he never even sent me a card in all that time . ’ |
| 29 | I mean he came for a flying visit and he went back did n't he ? he came for a flying visit and went back |
| 30 | Barton was keeping the info for a rainy day and he would ring his secretary in the morning and ask her to look in the paper 's library for any cuttings on Amaranth Wilikins . |