Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Leeds have agreed to pay Wigan £5,000 for every five first-team games he plays up to a maximum of £25,000 .
2 Every Sunday he turns out at a hall on a council scheme in Edinburgh to play 5-a-side football with his friends , trying by his own admission to re-live some of the opportunities he missed when he left Carrick Vale Secondary School at 15 to pursue a professional football career in London .
3 This , he points out in a letter of December 1814 , was ‘ a passionate expression uttered incautiously ’ .
4 He goes up to a kiosk in Wenceslas Square and asks for a copy of Rude Pravo ( Red Truth ) , the Party newspaper .
5 He watches his expression carefully as he goes up to a beggar and puts a coin in his tin .
6 He 's , he 's , he 's jump , he , he , he goes up like a jump jet he goes
7 He goes in for a sort of hall-of-mirrors self-impersonation , telling people how he would have done the murder if he had done it ( which he has ) .
8 and er , he said if he 's not better , any better when he goes back in a fortnight he 's gon na send him to a chest specialist , but you 've been a lot better have n't you ?
9 The next morning he goes out for a walk round the town .
10 Likeable , cordial , he sits down in a chair facing her husband and herself and proceeds to converse with them .
11 I gesture ( I imagine ) towards a chair on the other side of my desk and he sits down in an attitude which suggests that he intends to stay for rather more than a minute , and rather less than half an hour .
12 He looks around for a moment , pleased as punch , then realizes that his fellow group members have all heard it a dozen times before .
13 From the platform he looks out over a sea of clowns of all shapes and sizes filling the incongruously named Place St Maur des Fosses on the seafront at Bognor Regis .
14 Newcastle manager Kevin Keegan tried to lure Beardsley back to his native North East earlier this season , but Kendall spurned their attempt for the player he holds up as an example to all professionals .
15 Bruce shows how he holds on with a metal clip …
16 He dresses up as a woman to play a nanny working for a yuppie in Mrs Doutfire .
17 But that night , when he is asleep , the creature enters his chamber and rips back his curtain — so ! — so that he wakes up with a start to find its dreadful gaze upon him , and its hand out-stretched for his throat !
18 That depressing truth is , alas , one that Mikhail Gorbachev still refuses to accept , as he stumbles around in a trap set by Lenin two-thirds of a century ago .
19 His face bearing the ruby-red signature of four sets of young Mambo princess lips , Antonio Banderas grins sheepishly as he stumbles out of a Beverly Hills hotel bedroom .
20 he ends up as a tramp and he gets to ah son get in and you know he fucking hanging out the back of the window we had , we had enough money to move to a bigger house right , and they got this little
21 People like Calum Colvin have shaken that up a little , but even he ends up with a picture which he puts a frame around .
22 Adopted by his commanding officer , he ends up in an élite training school for Hitler Youth , barking Sieg Heil along with the rest of them .
23 He trots around like a two-year-old . ’
24 Wonder how many frying-pans and kettles he gets through in a week , he mused .
25 A deadlock can only be opened with a key so a thief can not smash a pane of glass and open the door ; or if he gets in through a window , he ca n't carry your property out through the door .
26 He takes over at a time when latest figures show Gloucestershire with the fasting rising crime rate in the country .
27 He is also , like many archaeologists , a connoisseur of real ale , so it is not surprising that he singles out as a favourite this inscription from Upton-on-Severn :
28 If there are steps , he may need handrails if he is walking , or a ramp if he moves about in a wheelchair .
29 But it does mean that the job is immensely diverse , with a lot of administration and only a small element of number crunching , which he seeks out as an extra because he likes doing it .
30 It 's beginning to happen in Frankfurt and Paris , but … ’ he trails off in a manner sufficient to make the Continentals want to cut the United Kingdom adrift .
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