Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] [vb pp] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes Brian tried to comfort himself with the fact that , however much he had wanted a child , he had not forced motherhood on Celia , that Harry 's conception had not exactly been his fault ; but then that thought had been instantly negated by the realisation that his own pleasure at her pregnancy , their move to the country and his insistence that all would be well , amounted to a foolish bigoted optimism for which he blamed himself entirely . |
| 2 | Naturally he has expressed a desire to see you , but if his wishes are to be fulfilled you must leave for France at once . |
| 3 | or and apparently he 'd lost a strip . |
| 4 | Perhaps he had discovered a seam — did you have a seam of garnet ? — and had come back secretly to exploit it , and … |
| 5 | Perhaps he had hit a patch of false going which caused him to lose his action , or had a fleeting muscular spasm which lost him the use of his hind legs — something like Bryan Marshall had reported after a couple of his races earlier in the season . |
| 6 | Perhaps he 's got a beer stomach has he ? |
| 7 | ( Obviously he had read a book on wine too . ) |
| 8 | So he 's done a kind of conjuring trick here . |
| 9 | So he 's got a gun . |
| 10 | All around him , backstabbing and financial disaster fomented chaos , inside he had discovered a universe of beauty and order . |
| 11 | 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 ! |
| 12 | Except somehow he 'd made a mistake , picked the wrong woman . |
| 13 | ‘ I could see something was there ; Bernard had the persistence to obtain the site , he was doing something positive — already he 'd got a steel frame constructed for a building where the freight was formerly loaded — he was practical and a great motivator at the same time . ’ |
| 14 | But erm lately he has got a lot worse . |
| 15 | Former pop star Dave Clark , who owns the rights to the Sixties music show , said yesterday he had clinched a deal with Channel 4 to screen 13 of the original episodes next year . |
| 16 | Quite possibly he has got a flea duck . |
| 17 | I have known him to come home he 's had a weekend off with a kitbag full of fish , beautiful fish he used to bring home cos no sooner on the train and right home |
| 18 | Although once he 'd had a wife of his own . |
| 19 | ‘ But I 've been reading an interview in Groundswell where Johnny Boy says that he 's misunderstood and really he 's got a heart of gold . ’ |
| 20 | By now he had become a Test cricketer , having played in three of the exciting 1960–61 Tests against West Indies ( and substituted in the field in the tied Test at Brisbane , his first , at Melbourne , being the 500th Test match , and bringing him poignantly what were to remain best batting and bowling performances in an eight-Test career . |
| 21 | But now he had ignited a fire within her that could never be put out . |
| 22 | ‘ Now he 's got a pub of his own at Hitchin , Essex . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ He 's done awfully well at the university and now he 's got a job , an important job as well . |
| 24 | And erm now he 's a supply teacher in now he 's got a band or something , I du n no . |
| 25 | Now he 's had a reply from the Prime minister 's office . |
| 26 | Now he has commercialised a method to recover the drugs , first developed by Dr Chris Lowe of Cambridge University . |
| 27 | Now he has become a pain in the neck to the establishment . |
| 28 | Now he has had a chance to work with them and perhaps better understands the intricacies of their job . |
| 29 | Now he has had a chance to regroup and fall back on to the kind of terrain of which he is master — the written minute . |
| 30 | I mean even today he 'd made a mistake on that thing and you spotted it where I would n't have done . |