Example sentences of "a [noun sg] he [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To form a judgement he seeks further information . |
| 2 | An intensely dutiful , rather dour man , he was plagued by eye troubles and as a result he shunned fashionable society . |
| 3 | As a result he gets more exercise and is generally fitter and healthier . |
| 4 | As a youngster he spent many hours playing cricket with his good friend John Turner and several other boys on a piece of waste ground at the top of Young Street . |
| 5 | Value for far more than the length and a half he beat Grand Applause there , he will relish the step up in trip for the Chichester Festival Theatre Stakes . |
| 6 | He was so strong and confident , so sure of himself , that it was a pity he held all women in contempt . |
| 7 | A dish he calls Maltese curry — an unlikely and most interesting mixture of onions , tomatoes and fruit with eggs mixed in at the end of the cooking , rather in the pipérade manner — was another recipe he repeated in several of his books . |
| 8 | But in addition to his qualities as a teacher he had undeniable glamour . |
| 9 | As a consequence he placed considerable emphasis in meeting the deadline for the submission of the self-assessment document . |
| 10 | After a moment he dropped some coins from his pocket into the hat and stepped back . |
| 11 | For a moment he had second thoughts . |
| 12 | As a player-manager he brought instant success to little York City |
| 13 | THE appointment of Tom Graveney as match referee for next year 's Test and one-day series between West Indies and Pakistan could be blocked because of a comment he made five years ago . |
| 14 | As a composer he cultivated various forms , including the symphony , but his lasting importance rests on his series of over sixty solo sonatas for keyboard ( after Op. 7 , distinctively for pianoforte rather than harpsichord ) and his famous ‘ Gradus ad Parnassum ’ ( 1817–26 ) . |
| 15 | In a sense he subjected European culture to the ancestral spirits of the Afro-Cuban world and disempowered it ’ . |
| 16 | When 40-year-old Australian Jack Brabham won the World Championship in 1966 , he became the first man to win the title in a car manufactured by himself and it reaped the rewards of a gamble he took five years earlier when he left Cooper to develop his own Grand Prix car . |
| 17 | In a report he recommends specific hazard training courses for teachers attending swimming lessons and staff at the borough 's baths . |
| 18 | A FORMER public school boy yesterday won £8,000 damages for a caning he received nine years ago . |
| 19 | The Reconciled Dominions had been under the control of Yzordderrex 's Autarch for over a century , and every time Godolphin returned from a trip he had new signs of unrest to report . |
| 20 | But then he saw a servant he had that day badly mutilated , also pointing . |
| 21 | As a batsman he made 3,882 runs at a modest average , but showed himself a robust tail-ender when it mattered . |
| 22 | As a wordsmith he co-wrote bestselling books and a television serial about a ‘ slightly-dodgy ’ detective called Hazell . |
| 23 | For a time he manufactured white lead in Birmingham ( 1841–4 ) , and then adventured in copper smelting in Neath in south Wales ( 1844–8 ) . |
| 24 | Once upon a time he had instant access to anyone in the office ; now he would telephone and be put on hold . |
| 25 | His death quite literally shattered the Prince and for a time he lost all sense of purpose . |
| 26 | His car was likened to a bullet … and just as effectively as a bullet he killed five people . |
| 27 | One of Lecter 's erstwhile victims was a musician from the Baltimore Philharmonic Orchestra , whose body was found minus its pancreas and thymus , which organs were served up by Lecter in a dinner he gave next day for the conductor and president of the orchestra . |
| 28 | In just over an hour he took five wickets , Ambrose chipped in with the other two , and England were all out for 93 . |
| 29 | China has so far refused to give any clear response to an offer he made last year to open talks on the basis of new proposals . |
| 30 | In order to illustrate such an example he gives another example . |