Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They threaten to ‘ expose ’ a misdeed , probably a genuine mistake or perhaps complete fiction , but the salvation is that if he goes without a murmur the matter will be hushed up . |
| 2 | I would not expect an angler to hit , or even see , every bite he has on a swing-tip the first time he uses one . |
| 3 | It is highly unlikely that he envisaged anything more than joint diplomatic pressure on Russia which would bring Nicholas to the conference table to discuss the problems at issue , which explains why he used as a pretext the totally ridiculous question of the keys to the Holy places in Jerusalem , whose custody was disputed between the Latin Catholic and Greek Orthodox churches . |
| 4 | But he mentioned in an essay the degree to which certain forms of anaemia were conducive to such creation ; and , in our conversation that day , he described how , when he was working on The Waste Land in Switzerland in 1921 ( ‘ by the waters of Leman ’ ) , he felt at one moment that his brain was going to burst . |
| 5 | Even as he lifted from a cupboard the freshly ironed shirts , about which he was so particular , he was already mentally back in England . |
| 6 | He describes as an example the large drafting and design rooms of engineering companies as having |
| 7 | With his entrepreneurial skills , and his international connections , he seemed for a time the man most likely to lead the British film industry away from its artisanal base , but he turned out to be no more responsive than anyone else to developments that were going to make things very difficult for the pioneers . |
| 8 | While studying theology at Oxford he joined for a time the household of Robert Grosseteste [ q.v. ] , bishop of Lincoln , probably through the good offices of Adam Marsh , who described him as ‘ active , discreet , full of goodwill and devoted to the cure of souls ’ ( Mon . |
| 9 | And then he did another one where at work he paid in a pound a week or two pound and at the end of the year , they kept the money like in the bank . |
| 10 | He looks and the bear 's hanging off it at the side , grrr ! on the window and the man goes aargh ! and the man runs off and he gets on he gets on an aeroplane the aeroplane and he 's safe . |
| 11 | He takes as an example a " typically Faulknerian " passage from The Bear , part of a labyrinthine sentence extending over nearly two pages . |
| 12 | Even now , he remembered with a shudder the appalling loneliness of Sunday afternoon , spent trailing noisily around the streets with a group of equally neglected youths , returning to the empty home to eat his supper while the television set bawled commercials at him to fill the silence , until he heard the scrape of his mother 's key in the lock . |
| 13 | In the following two examples the vocabulary itself suggests an inference beyond what is strictly perceivable : ( 83 ) He may be seen , as he enquires of an official the time of the next train , to summon up the semblance of a smile . |
| 14 | He gave as an example the New York Times which , he said , received over two million words a day . |
| 15 | He gave as an example the ‘ Union of Building and Repair Workers of Korea ’ with an alleged membership of over one million , which was challenged by the Soviet delegation ; subsequently the American delegation conceded it did not exist . |
| 16 | If he spoke to a girl a couple of times he would tend to look on her as a girlfriend . |
| 17 | to bed he wrote on a paper a bill , bill , bill |
| 18 | He cited as an example an intelligent man who had been disabled . |