Example sentences of "a [noun] [verb] he [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That guy 's going to need a submarine to scrape him off the bottom . ’ |
| 2 | A branch whipped him in the face . |
| 3 | Ferdinand believed Godoy was scheming for a regency to exclude him from the throne ; Godoy knew that Ferdinand was intriguing against him with the French ambassador . |
| 4 | Once , he had sensed a presence following him on the trail . |
| 5 | A wave slapped him in the mouth . |
| 6 | Mr Yeltsin 's aides have said he would ignore a vote to remove him by the Congress , which was elected before the collapse of the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | " Frith could have killed El-ahrairah at once , but he had a mind to keep him in the world , because he needed him to sport and jest and play tricks . |
| 8 | The blow came at a meeting on Saturday when members voted not to let him stand as an election candidate — despite a recommendation to accept him by the executive committee . |
| 9 | Thus in the case referred to by Holt C.J. , in Philips v. Bury , Appleford 's Case ( 1672 ) 1 Mod.Rep. 82 , the plaintiff sought an order directed to the master and fellows of a college to reinstate him as a fellow , the visitor having already adjudicated that he had been rightly removed . |
| 10 | But a witness saw him outside the premises . |
| 11 | Haines fell over and a Corporal kicked him in the stomach , shouting at him to stand up . |
| 12 | A journalist interviewed him for a book about his family , and when The Nielsons appeared , it made no mention at all of his professional life . |
| 13 | A ceremony to swear him into the post was to have been held tomorrow . |
| 14 | Oh he might be away for thre , cos I know he had golf at the Belfry this week , and then when he comes back he 's being picked up by a car to take him to the Belfry again , cos we 're entertaining there for a weekend 's golf . |
| 15 | A PEER with a distinguished war record who became a Conservative minister , Warden of Winchester College and businessman , yesterday described to a High Court jury his horror when he realised a pamphlet described him as a war criminal . |
| 16 | A constable had him by the arm and was turning him about — was that all ? no arguments ? |
| 17 | EXPLORER Gerald Kingsland , 62 — who inspired the film Castaway — has had scores of replies to an ad for a girl to join him on an island . |
| 18 | In one incident a police officer had to defend himself with a truncheon against a girl threatening him with a piece of broken glass . |
| 19 | On their behalf , a local radio station has launched a campaign to keep him at the County Ground . |
| 20 | It is worth mentioning , all the same , that a time will come when a frequent absentee can be fairly dismissed and that a failure to consult him at the time of dismissal will not necessarily mean that the company will be powerless to resist an unfair dismissal claim . |
| 21 | The Court of Appeal held that his dismissal was fair and that it was not vitiated by a failure to consult him over the reorganisation . |
| 22 | ‘ We 're always on the look-out for stories of good performance and good practice somewhere in the group , ’ says Jones , who writes all the copy in a job taking him on a growing number of foreign assignments . |
| 23 | A friend told him about an ex-demonstration model available at a heavily discounted price . |
| 24 | A friend described him as a charming rogue ‘ always on the make ’ . |
| 25 | A policeman took him to a chair near Anna . |
| 26 | On the way out , a policeman told him about the tragedy that was unfolding at the far end of the ground . |
| 27 | A policeman found him in the river near Waterloo station . |
| 28 | A chill caught him in the stomach . |
| 29 | Such a despair seized him at the sound of his own acceptance that he made a half-hearted attempt even then to deliver himself . |
| 30 | Because Sandy was embarked on a marriage and a career pointing him in a more conventional direction than mine , planning the sort of life that looked to me to have more obviously evolved from the background I 'd put behind me , it did n't seem to me that he would have had the wherewithal — ‘ morally ’ , as I would have been quick to say then — to help me through my predicament or , if he did , that it was possible for me with my values , to solicit his assistance . |