Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | In his fourteen years as a fancier he has converted a hobby into something of a triumphant campaign . |
| 4 | No wonder he had seemed a bit on edge . |
| 5 | He grew flowers on the graves : last winter he had started a cemetery at the bottom of the garden and stuck in a big cross for a sign . |
| 6 | ‘ Ever since he was a boy he has had a fear of them . |
| 7 | But I know I could remember being taken round his school and in the main hall he 'd got a glass fronted cupboard , and he 'd got all sorts of well really and truly they were just pretty pebbles . |
| 8 | As a child he had played a game with some of his friends where one child would stand behind another and put his hands round the other 's chest . |
| 9 | To the last moment he had feared a trap , but this was the fresh air before him , the dim air of the ravine he knew , hemmed in with rock on both sides between the church and the castle . |
| 10 | In fact , Botham did have an excuse , in that before the match he had received a death threat . |
| 11 | By the Ptolemaic Period he had become a god of healing and thus was associated with Imhotep in the Theban temples of Deir el-Medina and Deir el-Bahri . |
| 12 | Evening he 's earned a pint of beer I think tonight . |
| 13 | For his funeral he had made a list of people he wanted invited ( they did not include any Japanese ) , the lessons he wanted read , the hymns he wanted sung . |
| 14 | On his first excursion he 'd seen a Mercedes parked outside so he 'd turned back , returned to his hotel room further down The Street . |
| 15 | After some months of working with him it gradually emerged that although he had indeed identified his wife 's body he had had a member of the hospital staff with him at all times . |
| 16 | By half-past twelve each day he had had a hunger pain . |
| 17 | One day he had taken a walk in the country , and had surprised two lovers in a wood . |
| 18 | Like Spurgeon he had worked his way up from humble beginnings — his father had been a Northumberland stone-mason — and like Spurgeon he had had a chapel built round him . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | On that occasion he had made a case both for a tutor-organiser to increase provision for trade unionist students and also for one to develop work in the New Towns of Harlow , Stevenage , Hemel Hempstead and Hatfield . |
| 21 | On one occasion he had found a sheep 's head jammed between some of the stones . |
| 22 | Thank god he 's got a circuit breaker . |
| 23 | I had observed with what relish he had improvised a rape — of a Soviet actress — for a scene in one of our novels . |
| 24 | Last night he 'd gone a work . |
| 25 | That night he had reached a moment of feeling no-one else had , and his cigarette burned unnoticed in the fingers of his hands which stretched out parallel like mute ghosts . |
| 26 | That same night he had written a letter which she first saw on opening her eyes , which she had read over her coffee , wearing , she remembered now , her new negligee with its neck of coral swansdown . |
| 27 | In drawing a miner he has made a self-portrait . |
| 28 | Within a further month he had suffered a second and fatal one . |
| 29 | Lower down the page he had scribbled a quotation from Shelley : ‘ Life stains the white radiance of Eternity ’ . |
| 30 | In middle age he has experienced a breakdown , an identity crisis , which followed a long illness and an operation . |