Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he gets in a cab , he 's got nothing , he just gets in a cab and he goes , he 's sitting , sit sitting in the cab and the man goes what 's the matter ? |
| 2 | So he dreams of a highways authority , which could charge , not tax — and the magic of semantics would leave the cash in the transport budget . |
| 3 | So he ends with a toast to the bridesmaids and/or Matron of Honour . |
| 4 | In away he acts as a risk channel . |
| 5 | Elsewhere he refers to a treaty imposed by the king on the peoples who lived on the river Wahal , that is the Franks . |
| 6 | When he comes back he goes on a hunger strike for chicken . |
| 7 | Now he sits on a therapy group helping the same types of people he used to lock up . |
| 8 | ‘ Now he sails under a flag of convenience , prepared to change his views at the drop of an opinion poll . ’ |
| 9 | Now he appears as a policeman , but in more or less the same character , as the star of his own series . |
| 10 | Here he draws on a set of propositions derived from Habermas 's discussion of crisis tendencies in modern society ( see Roderick , 1986 : 103 ) . |
| 11 | He keeps calling in till he 's acknowledged , then he asks for a road report . |
| 12 | pulls on his trunks then he swims for a while , gets out , takes off his trunks , puts his towel round himself , rubs himself , walks round the pool a couple of times and rubs himself |
| 13 | There he sits at a table , a confident and debonaire man-about-town , a bachelor with even a touch of the dandy about him . |
| 14 | He is picking his way through the Moscow Record of 27 November 1869 , and there he reads about a murder which had occurred six days earlier . |
| 15 | ‘ Let's take all the little bastard 's clothes off , and see how he looks as a nigger . ’ |
| 16 | Quite apart from what the organisers tell him of their intentions , he may have sources of information that have a bearing on how he comes to a conclusion about predicted outcomes . |
| 17 | The only time the ace dealer comes a cropper here is when he stumbles across a client who works in the oil trade . |
| 18 | But he was stable enough to be transferred from the town 's general hospital to the specialist Walton centre for neurology and neurosurgery in Liverpool , where he remains on a ventilator . |
| 19 | His own shower were n't around to hear that , he 'll be glad to get back to where he rates as a hero . ’ |
| 20 | He has a few modish novels , a collection of articles by Paul Bordieu , a copy of the New York Review and some scripts lying on the table in front of the sofa where he sits with a bottle of Yorre — never Perrier — and an ice bucket of champagne , sacramental , in front of him to greet the actresses as they are shown in . |
| 21 | Only on the bit where he sings through a teapot ! |
| 22 | For him , it was just another working day at the church in Cheltenham where he works as a curate . |
| 23 | Settling back in the office chair at Northwood Stadium in the Potteries town of Hanley , where he works as a recreation assistant , Brannen shrugs his powerful shoulder at the first reverential mention of the decathlon doyen . |
| 24 | Bachelor Brian left Wirral in 1965 to emigrate to New Zealand and later moved to Tasmania where he works as a college caretaker and security officer . |
| 25 | Well he that 's why he wanders on a bit . |
| 26 | Occasionally he falls into a kind of torpor where he wo n't speak or even acknowledge that anyone is there . ’ |