Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he tried to construct a few sentences in his mind — excusing himself — excusing Rose — they did n't sound lucid . |
| 2 | First he has to create a neutral police force . |
| 3 | He has played a few games and had received treatment . |
| 4 | ‘ He has run a million miles for us this season and will run another million , ’ he said . |
| 5 | With The Cook , The Thief , His Wife And Her Lover ( 18 ) he has made a few changes , but certain basic principles hold good : the look of everything is still turned into art history , and the meaning of everything is still turned into nothing , a nothing that sometimes seems despairing and sometimes only smug . |
| 6 | A Liverpool City Council spokesman said : ‘ He has got a disabled facilities grant and mandatory renovation grant . ’ |
| 7 | He has got a few bruises . |
| 8 | He has got a few bruises . |
| 9 | As Montag begins to realise how wrong his community is , he starts to steal a few books rather than burn them all . |
| 10 | He bent to throw a few pieces of turf on the fire and was reminded that the locals called them sods of turf . |
| 11 | He 'd seen a hundred funerals . |
| 12 | Loc stared hard at her for a moment then glanced out across the clearing again , remembering suddenly the expression he 'd seen a few minutes before on the Frenchman 's face . |
| 13 | He said he 'd played a few years before but was very out of practice |
| 14 | Before he 'd gone a hundred yards Joseph saw a burly French colon cuff an Annamite coolie roughly about the head at the curbside after descending from his pousse-pousse . |
| 15 | ‘ He only found out what he 'd missed a few years ago when some German came in asking questions . |
| 16 | His name was Roger , and he 'd made a few stabs at conversation in the course of the night . |
| 17 | I think he got on er , quite well down there , because he 'd spent a few days up here he had a better idea of what he wanted to ask , and what he wanted to talk about and so on , but erm , only because his deadline 's and |
| 18 | It would n't have surprised her in the slightest if he 'd left a few minutes early , just for the pleasure of leaving her stranded . |
| 19 | And when I saw the landlady there she said that she did have a Mr there but he 'd left a few days ago , did n't know where he 'd got to . |
| 20 | Harry Andrews , who knew him for years , said , ‘ When he 'd had a few drinks he could be noisy . |
| 21 | Every time he 'd had a few drinks , they took starring roles in the fantasies that played themselves out in his head . |
| 22 | He 'd scattered a few items around the place so that anybody looking in through the window would get the impression that the owner was in residence but out for the day or the evening : a box of tissues and some magazines in the main room , a half-empty bottle of fresh milk and some crockery draining in the kitchen . |
| 23 | At times he advised reverting to a lower potency if the higher potency aggravated ; at other times he advised giving a few doses of a partially similar remedy if any aggravation should occur ; he also suggested administering the remedy in liquid form , giving a few succussions before repeating ( the plus system ) . |
| 24 | In spare time — between politics and classics there was little spare time — he began to read a few books of theology . |
| 25 | As soon as he hung up the phone , he started to pack a few things . |
| 26 | He travelled to and from home alone , and soon he decided to eat a few buns in the classroom while reading Jefferies , or else to have lunch outside school . |
| 27 | Well , he kept taking a few sips and peeping around the door to spy out the whereabouts of the principal . |
| 28 | . It was a puzzle to me to think that any customers wanted any of these things in the alley he lived , but he did have a few visitors , because he dealt in antiques , he knew a great deal about them … |
| 29 | He liked to get a few holes in before work . |
| 30 | After he had slept in the same sheets for six months Nails had taken them to the launderette , and now he had discovered a few things like that , which helped , which was more than his dad ever had . |