Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [adv] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then Nomadic Way brought the stamina which enabled him to win the Cesarewitch two years ago into play and finishing well up that final testing hill , he failed by only a head to catch Cruising Altitude . |
| 2 | Goosebumps coarsened his sleek skin , and he tried to still a trembling in his limbs . |
| 3 | He fled with just an ornament . |
| 4 | He promised to forward a specimen when it was dry but went on to say ‘ the flowers are so small as not to be discerned , by my eyes , without a glass ’ . |
| 5 | ‘ There 's no need to look so desperate , ’ he replied with just a hint of sympathy . |
| 6 | Slowly and methodically , he worked for about an hour on his correspondence , which included a letter from one of their major customers . |
| 7 | He worked with scarcely a break to search out a new passage in the files , or to pick up the half-smoked end of his last cigarette from the ashtray , stub it out , light a new one , and put it down in its place . |
| 8 | His blue eyes flayed her , as he demanded harshly , ‘ Do you deny that he died with barely a penny to his name ? ’ |
| 9 | I think he once did say to me that he was very disturbed at how much ‘ coke ’ David was doing and that it had got to the point where he did n't hide it from deFries , whereas he did for quite a while at first . |
| 10 | He hesitated for only a moment , then glanced briefly at Alexandra and said , ‘ I should be happy to . ’ |
| 11 | Glancing at his fob watch , he had at least an hour before Spencer returned with their mother to the family home . |
| 12 | A criminal psychopath would not want to kick someone 's face in for the fun of it unless he had at least an inkling of what it feels like to the victim . |
| 13 | There was a long silence and then he said with just a trace of a smile : ‘ I am a sculptor , I am an old man and I am a Jew . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Now that I 've eaten and drunk my fill it 's time for me to beat away , ’ he said after about an hour . |
| 15 | When Bruce Bogtrotter had eaten his way through half of the entire enormous cake , he paused for just a couple of seconds and took several deep breaths . |
| 16 | He paused for only an instant . |
| 17 | A man who felt he had been victimized by a crime and who wished to have the perpetrators punished could accuse the person or persons whom he suspected before either a justice of the peace or a police magistrate . |