Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] a [noun sg] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Even as he lifted from a cupboard the freshly ironed shirts , about which he was so particular , he was already mentally back in England . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He gave as an example the New York Times which , he said , received over two million words a day . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | If he spoke to a girl a couple of times he would tend to look on her as a girlfriend . |
| 11 | to bed he wrote on a paper a bill , bill , bill |
| 12 | He cited as an example an intelligent man who had been disabled . |