Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] a [noun] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ’ 'E walks like a man as means business , ’ Jonadab remarked . |
| 2 | When he had finished his chores he sat down at the table and copied out ‘ I am William Beech ’ over and over again until Tom , after much effort , finally persuaded him to go for a run and exercise Sammy . |
| 3 | He could feel the vibrations in his bones ; juddering the cradle he was strapped into , making him think for a moment that the tiny vehicle was going to shake itself to pieces . |
| 4 | I remember him struggling with a story where understanding of the narrative depended on the reader knowing about canals . |
| 5 | And then you will tell him to come to a place that I will tell you of and at a time that I will tell you . |
| 6 | The only permissible course is to issue a subpoena for him to come as a witness or to produce the documents to the court ’ . |
| 7 | The financial community was also shocked by a recent photograph showing him looking like a down and out with flowing locks and a long white beard and wearing dirty jeans and trainers . |
| 8 | We both had anoraks but Oliver would never pull up his hood because he said it made him look like a monk and he did n't want to endorse Christianity . |
| 9 | Rufus stubbed out his second cigarette , put the paper into his briefcase and slung over his shoulders the marvellous black leather coat from Beltrami he had bought in Florence , which would have made him look like a gangster if he had not been so fair and ruddy-faced and with such blue , English eyes . |
| 10 | The adventure on which he had embarked , which was to give a sort of permanence to the past , was the one thing that kept him anchored to a chair and table all day , and often into the night . |
| 11 | She then wrapped the baby up , left him lying in a wood and returned to work , Aberdeen Sheriff Court heard yesterday . |
| 12 | When Russell pulled up , the two White Mountain Apaches with him slowed to a walk and came up on either side of him . |
| 13 | I looked up and saw him clinging to a pipe that ran the length of one wall , high up . |
| 14 | I watched him dip into a bucket and throw a scoopful of water on to the hot stones of the fire . |
| 15 | ( 143 ) Something of this can be learned from " The Way to the Churchyard " ( 1901 ) , an anecdote about an old failure whose fit of anger at a passing cyclist causes him to die of a stroke or seizure . |
| 16 | The sight of it made him whimper like a child and fall to his knees again . |
| 17 | I 've had him put in a strait-jacket and one of those leather masks with the little bars over the mouth hole . |
| 18 | And the doctor went up to see the old man and got him put in a hospital and that , in a mental hospital , for six weeks , right . |
| 19 | I let him cry for a bit and then went over to him and squatted down beside him and put my hand over his shoulders . |
| 20 | At 18 , Couples hooked his drive out of bounds , one of the few mistakes he made on a day that turned cold and windy by the time the five-hour 25-minute round had ended . |
| 21 | Cotton wrote of Walter Hagen : ‘ He lived like a prince and people treated him like one . |
| 22 | ‘ He lived in a bothy until the roof fell in . |
| 23 | True enough , he lived in a caravan and travelled from town to town with the others in his travelling group but it was n't a garishly painted van like the ones old time gypsies occupied , just a normal common-or-garden caravan , the type people stay in on holiday , but that did n't make him a gypsy . |
| 24 | So far , the free world has liked him both for having been , and for having ceased to be , a communist of a sort , for the freedoms he seeks in matters of literary form , for the modern inventiveness and manipulation of the literary games he plays , games that none the less commemorate , as he acknowledges , Cervantes , Sterne and Diderot , and for the sexual games which he plays in an age when , as he once put it , sexuality has ceased to be taboo . |
| 25 | He realised with a shock that he was nervous — as nervous as a randy adolescent on a hot date — and likely to be about as subtle ! |
| 26 | ‘ Let us say that for you , and your beautiful green eyes , ’ he inserted with a sincerity that made her heart stop , ‘ I will think about it . ’ |
| 27 | A SCHOOLBOY escaped severe injury last night when he plunged through a skylight and crashed on to a bed . |
| 28 | In a moment of weary despair , he turns to a colleague and says , ‘ It 's like pissing into the wind ! ’ |
| 29 | He goes on a bit but he 's basically very good-hearted and kind . |
| 30 | He goes into a restaurant and he says oh the waiter erm let me see the menu and he looks at the menu and said right , he said . |