Example sentences of "he [verb] a [noun] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , I did n't get no trouble from the bloke , 'e plonked a couple of quid into me mitt just before 'e said cheerio . ’ |
| 2 | Searching for fossils on Fitzwilliam 's estates at Castor in 1821 , he discovered a large tessellated Roman pavement ; this encouraged him to conduct a series of excavations , unusually systematic for their time , which continued until 1827 . |
| 3 | In post-race interviews Dickinson emphasized the difficulties of getting a horse fit and ready for the Gold Cup , let alone winning it , and he confided that the stress and tension of training the five had caused him to lose a stone in weight since Christmas . |
| 4 | He could n't dismiss the images , he could n't stay Time 's hand as it turned page after page of that memory-album until tears flooded his eyes at the scenes recalled : his mother , her brown hair screwed into a bun at the back of her head , taking him to see a house at Edgeworthstown where she said a famous woman writer had lived ; he had n't paid much attention , not being interested in books then , but when he grew older he read Maria Edgeworth 's novels and went again for himself to gaze at her home . |
| 5 | The result was a whiplash neck that required him to wear a brace between performances and did not heal completely for three years . |
| 6 | But if you ask him to spare a couple of hours to help out at a St John Ambulance fund-raising activity or a garden fête for the church roof repair fund , he might find that a worthwhile thing to do . |
| 7 | Middleton said his friend David had called for him at 10pm on the night the bank was broken into and asked him to drive a car to Jedburgh . |
| 8 | 1926–27 found him hawking a play round London offices with no potential takers . |
| 9 | ‘ It seems his paper 's asked him to write a series of articles from Italy . |
| 10 | It was typical of him to find a place for Basil D'Oliveira in English cricket after the South African had written to him in desperation that his talent would ever find outlet . |
| 11 | It is not known who was the mother of Osred , Aldfrith 's son and successor , nor when Aldfrith 's queen , Cuthburh , parted from him to found a nunnery at Wimborne ( ASC A , s.a. 718 ) . |
| 12 | Mr O'Donnell said he had agreed to go with McPherson on the night of his ordeal to help him steal a van from Tarbert . |
| 13 | The attraction of the concept was that it allowed him to square a number of circles at once . |
| 14 | Here the constable told the driver that there was no device available at the station for taking specimens of breath and then simply required him to provide a specimen of blood . |
| 15 | They heard him give a cry of wonder from the other side and followed him . |
| 16 | With surprise he watched him consume a lot of macaroni . |
| 17 | By looking for faults in his behaviour , by constantly diminishing him with little criticisms — he neglected their boy ( at school in Randung ) , he was cold , he was selfish , he was an inadequate and clumsy lover ( did she dare ) , he never listened to other people , he had no sense of direction because he was always getting her lost in foreign capitals — she made him feel a kind of leper , different from and inferior to the run of men . |
| 18 | You could imagine him guaranteeing a lot of things , or at least saying he guaranteed things a lot . |
| 19 | A feature on Neil Kinnock 's future claims that his ‘ appalled friends ’ have tried to deter him seeking a place on Labour 's national executive , ‘ fearful of the boyo in the backseat ’ . |
| 20 | Then one afternoon at Scotch College , a school-friend asked him to play a game of rugby . |
| 21 | so I told him to buy a couple of pies and some biscuits while I went to phone someone . |
| 22 | She considered the insane unmentionable , and the care of them the least attractive area of the medical profession , but in accepting the position in Claybury 's Private Asylum the financial rewards had enabled him to buy a house in Calvert Terrace , just off Myddelton Square , an address which certainly won Maud 's approval . |
| 23 | A week later , while he was out jogging , he encountered the Commy old bat who had put the card in the flowers and made him look a fool to Viola . |
| 24 | Dryden makes him sound a monument of dullness ; in reality he is brisk , lively and journalistic . |
| 25 | Paddy Cosgrove , his likely replacement , is a council hack of 21 years standing and ideal backbench fodder , though it is hard to imagine him leading a crusade for Meadowell . |
| 26 | My hope is a more settled and competent defence this season will help him re-gain a lot of confidence . |
| 27 | As a boy Waugh had longed to go to Eton , which might have made a radical of him and where he might have met Orwell , and did not ; his first aristocratic wife left him after a year , and for an Etonian ; and his sojourns in a great Elizabethan house in Worcestershire as a young man , the guest of a friend , allowed him to glimpse a world of moats , battlements and rolling parkland from which in spirit he never awoke . |
| 28 | He was only interested in making recordings and he had a legal base in Switzerland , which also helped him avoid a lot of problems . |
| 29 | Leopold had already written to Padre Martini urging him to send a letter of recommendation to the Elector and , since Munich was on Mozart 's route from Paris to Salzburg , he suggested that his son intimate to the Elector , or to a close associate , that he had been offered a post at Salzburg with a salary of 700 or 800 gulden ( the actual salary was only 450 ) in the hope that a more rewarding appointment might be offered . |
| 30 | Thus if I break a promise for my own convenience , I fail to treat the person to whom I made it as an end in himself , for I can hardly expect him to endorse a principle of action which allows him to be treated thus . |