Example sentences of "a [noun] he [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a bit he got a job in a brick works and picked up £80 a week on day shift and £100 on night shift . |
| 2 | When he commits to a budget he takes a risk . |
| 3 | On the toss of a coin he takes a consolation prize of an air pump . |
| 4 | A verdict he maintained a jury would never return . |
| 5 | He was short and sturdy and when he was on a horse he seemed a part of it . |
| 6 | In November Tajan told the Daily Telegraph of London he also had FFr15 million owed to him in France — a figure he rectified a week later to ‘ between FFr6–8 million ’ . |
| 7 | He received two life sentences , with a recommendation he serve a minimum of eighteen years . |
| 8 | As a result he underwent a personality change and started to attack women . |
| 9 | As a result he reaches a conclusion , which may seem astonishing , though is easily open to misinterpretation , ‘ The truth is that catallaxics is the science which describes the only overall order that comprehends nearly all mankind , and that the economist is therefore entitled to insist that conduciveness to that order be accepted as a standard by which all particular institutions are judged . ’ |
| 10 | As a yachtsman he had a touch of genius . |
| 11 | Asked why the interest in Elvis , Walken said that a girl he had a crush on in school used to carry round a picture of her boyfriend , and this was used as an excuse for why Walken could n't take her to his high school prom . |
| 12 | I mentioned earlier that just when you thought that the moment had arrived for Mike McFarlane to make a breakthrough he had a setback , and in 1981 this applied also to me . |
| 13 | While still a boy he submitted a model of a railway carriage to the Greenwich Railway Company , which adopted his method of putting the wheels under the carriages . |
| 14 | The smile seemed to arrest him , his gaze focusing intently on her mouth , and after a moment he raised a hand , his forefinger extended , lightly tracing the curve of her lips . |
| 15 | For a week he fought a battle inside his heart , Then he faced his pride ; and apologised to the Chairman . |
| 16 | In a small pub by a bridge he had a drink and a salad . |
| 17 | Approaching a bridge he received a message telling him there was firing ahead . |
| 18 | Filming Scent of a Woman he had a scene in which he stepped straight out into the speeding traffic . |
| 19 | Since he was not born in the ordinary way , Adam would not have needed one , but the general assumption was that as a man he had a navel . |
| 20 | Basically Wegman expresses his view of the world as an absurd and irrational place by photographing Man Ray in a variety of disguises — inked-on whiskers and ears cunningly transform him into a cat , in a dress he becomes a transvestite , and in a hotel bed with Fay he becomes the envy of every red-blooded hound on the planet . |
| 21 | In a word he offers a cornucopia of man 's hopes and experiences , his successes and his frustrations , set in Canada , but energised by a trans-historical and global outlook of classical mythology and biblical settings . |
| 22 | In a contract of sale , other than one to which subsection ( 3 ) below applies , there is an implied condition on the part of the seller that in the case of a sale he has a right to sell the goods , and in the case of an agreement to sell he will have such a right at the time when the property is to pass . |
| 23 | To the idea of a miscellany he gave a firm no . |
| 24 | Albie would know that this was not a matter he had a choice in . |
| 25 | Even president Clinton is learning that , even as a democrat he had a reputation of fiscal responsibility as a government , but I must admit I welcomed his present er proposals in that regard . |
| 26 | As well as a rug he takes a book , author and title unspecified ; the eternal traveller is also the eternal student , and it is as ‘ the student ’ that Verkhovensky first appears in the manuscript drafts . |
| 27 | With a flourish he drew a line at the bottom , screwed on the top of his fountain pen and hooked it into a buckle on his braces . |
| 28 | With a frown he pulled a file towards him and buzzed the outer office . |
| 29 | Moreover for a year he shared a stage with one of the greatest and the best-loved English stage actors of the century . |
| 30 | ’ There could be no doubt that when a garage proprietor sold petrol to a customer he made a contract of sale ( i.e. of the petrol ) with the customer , since the customer agreed to pay a ‘ money consideration , ’ the price . |