Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of his suspicions about women since Angela Deverill 's treatment of him came back with a rush , and he could not tell whether McAllister was registering shame or guilt . |
| 2 | They left with him tied up like a criminal . |
| 3 | I like Rossmayne and I did n't want him mixed up in a scandal . |
| 4 | Well , you could have put that scene he made on at a theatre in the West End and charged for tickets , I reckon . |
| 5 | Oh he used to wash them and he had a proper , he had a case what he made up with a rack so as he could drop them all in . |
| 6 | They did not keep him long , however , and this time he made off with a companion and even had the nerve to work for three months on a French farm before starting a marathon trek across the entire length of France . |
| 7 | I visited him and he dosed up like a clam . |
| 8 | His eyesight was below par which disqualified him from being a pilot — and annoyed him a lot — but he passed out as a navigator . |
| 9 | In 1904 he met up with a man named Blaney , and Young Buffalo was born . |
| 10 | Erm Dr was the medical officer of health , part time , and Dr was a character , he always had a white carnation , he rode round in a carriage on occasions , and he er wrote copperplate . |
| 11 | They shouted at him and he rode off on a bicycle , later to be stopped by the police who had been alerted to the incident . |
| 12 | In Bath , Nicholas Godfrey , 16 , was plucked to safety from the swollen River Avon as he clung on to a branch . |
| 13 | He got up after a while and paced round the high-ceilinged room , looking at the layered posters and the soft toys , the two old wardrobes , the small ring-tree on the window ledge , hung with little cheap , colourful rings . |
| 14 | When he got on as a substitute against Sweden he was first class ; in Albania he was one of our best players . ’ |
| 15 | Police said a lone gunman hiding in undergrowth fired through the security fencing and hit Mr Gallagher in the back several times as he got out of a builder 's van . |
| 16 | He accepted the devotion of a prostitute who anointed his feet with costly perfume , and he dined out on a number of occasions with tax collectors and sinners , who represented the social outcasts — the ‘ untouchables ’ of the day . |
| 17 | Billy 's short legs kept getting tangled in the heather , so he bounced along like a kangaroo through the springy tufts . |
| 18 | He moved up to a slave . |
| 19 | He moved over to a group of boatmen sitting beneath a large gilt mirror . |
| 20 | Once he had decided on his man he moved in with a determination that usually beat the carefully-laid plans of other interested clubs , often to dramatic effect . |
| 21 | In lessons all day , he bounded out to a school meeting immediately afterwards . |
| 22 | Finding himself with nine months to kill between school and university he cast round for a job . |
| 23 | Smiling awkwardly , he cast around for a topic of conversation that was n't personal and had difficulty in finding one . |
| 24 | Blanche 's question woke Dexter from his reverie and he cast around for a photograph of Nicola in the room . |
| 25 | He cast around for a chair , shoved some papers aside with a foot and perched on the edge of an armchair . |
| 26 | He sank down into a chair opposite Hari . |
| 27 | He wandered around for a while and ran into a few of the household busy with their duties . |
| 28 | He wandered around for a couple of hours having chats with any of the old fellows who were around the place . ’ |
| 29 | He wandered around in a state of utter dejection , belonging nowhere . |
| 30 | Int he trained up as a welder now ? |