Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as he got to the loose box where they had the horse he pulled a little bit of stick about six inches long out of his pocket and threw it right up into the manger . |
| 2 | He had several pets : a grey cat Maria , Shep the sheepdog who went everywhere with him over the fields , several birds including a lame pigeon that he loved to tease Maria with ; and one spring he reared a wild duck from the egg of an abandoned nest and was upset for weeks after the October day it finally flew away . |
| 3 | This spring he faced a preliminary inquiry in Ontario , where the Crown was required to show that there was sufficient evidence to warrant a full trial on the charges , and , subsequently , the accused was ordered to stand trial on a number of charges , including criminal negligence causing bodily harm and aggravated sexual assault . |
| 4 | When he heard of his army 's defeat he proclaimed a huge mushroom feast and ordered his shamans to brew up a fresh batch of Mad Cap fungus liquor for the Fanatics . |
| 5 | At a meeting of the Cairngorm Club he told a hushed audience ‘ For every few steps I took I heard a crunch as if someone was walking after me but taking steps three or four times the length of my own . |
| 6 | He kissed her then , his mouth warm and sensitive to her every response , and when she put her arms around his neck he gave a hoarse inhalation of breath , his arms tightening around hers , and the kiss took fire , grew passionate , their bodies pressing together , harder , harder … |
| 7 | As a result he did a French translation of The Happy Hypocrite which was published in 1904 by the Mercure de France , illustrated with a caricature of Boulestin by Max ( Boulestin had some difficulty in convincing the Mercure 's editor that Max Beerbohm actually existed and was not an invention of his own ) . |
| 8 | Milton Keynes is about as far from the sea as it is possible to get in England , and Roger Mason 's motivation in coming to us was never quite clear to me ( perhaps it was n't to him either , for although after four intensive years ' research he produced a many-hundred page ‘ draft ’ of his thesis , far in excess of what might be required , he finally failed to submit it for examination ) . |
| 9 | The first person clearly to express this idea was the German physiologist Hermann von Helmholtz , who wrote in 1866 that to see things is to form ‘ unconscious conclusions from analogy ’ : by an analogy he meant a pre-existing theory , or model , of what the world is like . |
| 10 | At a ceremony he presented a signed certificate recognizing the contribution and support to the Party the member had given . |
| 11 | When Henry V landed for the first time on French soil nearly forty years later , it was soon put beyond doubt that in his artillery he possessed a potential match-winner . |
| 12 | Though he had no great stock of small talk he had a great store of commonplaces , which could be adapted to any subject . |
| 13 | As a palaeographer he enjoyed reproducing ancient scripts using implements of his own devising , just as an archaeologist he sought a deeper insight into ornaments by drawing them or even carving them with his own hands . |
| 14 | ‘ By the indefatigable exertions of honest industry he acquired an ample fortune which his large but discriminating generosity rendered serviceable to the encouragement of virtue , by diffusion of knowledge and the relief of the afflicted … . ’ |
| 15 | Without any experience of that industry he found a useful partner in Thomas Gray , the manager of a small ironworks at Coatbridge , with whom in 1861 he formed the business of Colville & Gray . |
| 16 | In his humiliation he forged a magical net which caught her in flagrante delicto with her lover , ARES , and exposed them to the derision of the other gods . |
| 17 | under him , yet in practice he appointed an excessive number of them ; he compelled them to pay for their appointments , and in some cases to make annual payments to him afterwards . |
| 18 | Before he can open his mouth he gets a simple instruction from each of us , so he stands switching his gaze from her to me and back again like he 's at a tennis match . |
| 19 | In his first scene he established an unshakeable authority , which , Charles knew , was bound to strengthen the total collapse of the character in the second act . |
| 20 | Naturally , he took a great interest in horse-shoeing , and horseshoes seem to have been a main interest in his continental journeys– He had a great fondness for the application of setons , particularly in cases of lameness — a curious lapse for such a humane man . |
| 21 | No wonder he got an electric jolt . |
| 22 | So in winter he kept a large torch to hand , in case . |
| 23 | While in that capacity he devised an ingenious method of casting railway chairs , and also designed the wrought-iron roof of the New Street Station in Birmingham , which with a span of 211 feet was the largest iron roof at the time of its completion . |
| 24 | In this capacity he played a prominent part in strengthening Parliament 's position in Wales , and maintaining its foothold in Ireland . |
| 25 | In this capacity he played a major part in instituting the kidney transplant unit at St James 's ; and when he established the liver transplant unit there , it was only the third such centre in the country . |
| 26 | One day , however , walking by the seashore he met an elderly Christian who told him about the Hebrew prophets , undermined his naïve confidence in the moral guidance of philosophers , and converted him to Christianity . |
| 27 | The measure of his performance was that at lunch he held a nine-stroke lead over the other morning starters . |
| 28 | Although he had been fortunate to have been sitting at the back of the coach he received a fractured spine . |
| 29 | In a red cloak I saw him go , His back was bent , his step was slow , And as he laboured through the cold He seemed a hundred winters old . |
| 30 | In place of orthodox intercourse he became an addicted masturbator indulging in ‘ a suicide committed daily ’ . |