Example sentences of "[subord] he [adv] [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Subsequently he built a house in the country for a wealthy barrister ( Hurtwood in Sussex ) and another in the Usk Valley ( Colomendy ) , where he also displayed a talent for garden design ( 1912–14 ) . |
| 2 | He scraped through the Eton of Dr Edmond Warre [ q.v. ] , under the particular care of Arthur Benson [ q.v. ] , his housemaster , without distinction , but in 1902 gained a first class in modern history at Balliol College , Oxford , where he also made a reputation for himself as a roof-climber , despite his blindness . |
| 3 | A good all rounder Chris is a member of the Cockermouth Round Table where he recently organised a trip for 90 old age pensioners to the lakes . |
| 4 | Singer went to the Jews ' College School , London , where he subsequently became a teacher . |
| 5 | When David led the little group out onto the street , where he quickly hailed a Hansom cab , Cissie had linked arms with Beth , and was walking tall and proud like a ‘ young lady ’ should . |
| 6 | But although he now runs a hotel chain with 160 properties in 47 countries , he has never actually managed a hotel . |
| 7 | The only trouble was that although he never missed a trick , he was dreadfully slow . |
| 8 | Accordingly , the only outward sign of a certain limited degree of prosperity were his immaculate clothes , although he never had a Savile Row tailor make him a suit or went to one of the more fashionable outfitters specializing in foreign-made clothes . |
| 9 | Poor old John , he had never drunk really heavily , although he always enjoyed a drink . |
| 10 | Derek decided that in the position that Rory was standing , plus the possible cover defence from the Australians , that a try for England would probably not have been scored , so he simply awarded a penalty kick . |
| 11 | He is indeed an exciting player — also i think he is quite young — 22 or 24 or something like that so he also has a future . |
| 12 | He was never paid , so he never had a job to lose , but he 's always been happy to help people who asked him . ’ |
| 13 | Females tend to disperse themselves among the males but in cases where a male has an especially good territory a female may opt to breed with him even if he already has a mate , rather than go for one without . |
| 14 | Whilst the policy of this requirement — classifying attacks on persons engaged in law enforcement as especially serious — is perfectly understandable , one result of the wording of section 18 of the 1861 Act is that D can be convicted of this offence ( with a maximum penalty of life imprisonment ) if he simply pushes a police-officer in order to prevent an arrest , and the officer loses balance , falls awkwardly , and suffers serious injury . |
| 15 | Later Rabbi Akabar ruled that ‘ a woman who becomes displeasing ’ meant a man could divorce his wife if he simply found a woman he liked better and considered more beautiful . |
| 16 | Doubtful if he ever dented a heart ; more than likely he gave quite a number of hearts a new lift after they 'd imagined the ball was over for them . |
| 17 | Ruth 's heart lifted but plummeted when his voice dangerously threatened , ‘ You tell your lover and business partner when he returns that I will ruin him if he ever lays a finger on Maria Luisa again . |
| 18 | Albert Ball or William Booth or if he really wants a statue of a lady why not Maid Marian in a lace shawl ? |
| 19 | If he then writes a monograph about a " tribe " or a " people " or a " social system " and he wants to be recognized as a scientist rather than as an artist , he is under pressure to persuade himself ( and his readers ) that the events which he saw happening before his eyes were " typical " of what might be going on elsewhere in the system . |
| 20 | If he still appears a hero to some , that may be something the world can live with : for all his defiance , he will have thrown away everything Iraq gained from its eight-year war with Iran , and swallowed many mouthfuls of words about Kuwait remaining Iraq 's 19th province for ever and a day . |
| 21 | He bought that because he once had a tiff with a BBC car park attendant who would n't let him in . |
| 22 | He was well known to the band because he once shared a house with Solowka in Leeds . |
| 23 | He decided to honour hangman Albert Pierrepoint , who died aged 87 last month , because he once ran a pub in nearby Much Hoole . |
| 24 | Because he never got a lass into trouble — except once , and that was when he was just a lad . |
| 25 | She dreaded the inspector coming because he always asked a lot of questions , and told her how lucky she was that she would soon be able to go to a big place in London where there were lots of other girls and boys . |
| 26 | But that led him to be grilled by detectives for two hours because he unwittingly bought a cabinet stolen from an old lady in North Oxford a few days before . |
| 27 | She watched him covertly while he deftly impaled a wedge of fillet steak on his fork , and put it in his mouth . |
| 28 | Green 's early works as an architect included the Newcastle Literary and Philosophical Society 's building ( 1822–5 ) and the beginnings of a lengthy sequence of somewhat undistinguished Gothic-style churches ; while he also developed a reputation as a designer of farmhouses , being employed in this capacity on the Beaufront estate near Hexham ( 1824 ) and by Hugh Percy , second Duke of Northumberland [ q.v . ] . |
| 29 | Of the many interweaving strands within this extensive topic he concentrates primarily on the way artists have deployed scientific ideas and instruments — these connections constitute ‘ the science of art ’ of his title — — while he also encompasses a number of related themes . |
| 30 | He gave her food to eat , and watched her , while he quietly smoked a cigarette . |