Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] a [noun] ['s] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When told to leave all behind , his past , his roots , his culture , his sense of belonging , his status and position in society and the family , the friendship , support and love of those close to him , everything except for Sarah , his wife , and Lot , his nephew , he goes without a moment 's hesitation . |
| 2 | Nigel wondered if any film star would be discerning enough to employ him if he applied for a chauffeur 's job . |
| 3 | He roamed Southend in Essex until he bumped into a pal 's mother who took him in . |
| 4 | For his part , he seems to have enjoyed Cornwall , which he described as a walker 's paradise and ‘ … romantic to a degree ’ , though he confessed he would not like to live in it . |
| 5 | In 1915 he learnt of a doctor 's practice going for sale at Collier 's Forge , near Stourbridge in the Midlands . |
| 6 | In reply to BS Berlyn 's letter in the December issue of Credit Management where he complain about a creditor 's inability to enforce judgment against its debtor when a winding-up petition has been presented against that debtor , I can only say that he is ignoring one of the fundamental concepts of English insolvency law , that all creditors should be treated equally when their debtor becomes insolvent . |
| 7 | In 1923 he returned to a hero 's welcome in Dublin , flirted with Communism , but lost control of his union , now in the staid hands of William O'Brien , once his assistant . |
| 8 | In the summer of his second year at university he worked at a butcher 's . |
| 9 | On leaving school , he worked in a chemist 's shop and he later qualified as an apothecary ( LSA ) in 1886 . |
| 10 | Taffy spent five days cleaning , polishing , painting he copied the motives which were missing from and old nineteen hundred and eight B U machinery catalogue which he examined with a watchmaker 's glass . |
| 11 | The shrine to three-year-old Johnathan Ball who died in the blast as he shopped for a Mother 's Day gift , grew yesterday . |
| 12 | When I was a junior doctor in hospitals in the late 1920s , I had under my care a doctor , then over 60 , who told me that when he was young in London , he knew of a doctor 's plate which conveyed this message to prospective patients : Medicine and advice fourpence , superior ditto sixpence . |
| 13 | He died at a friend 's flat in Rock Ferry after going into convulsions and frothing at the mouth . |
| 14 | He sang in a child 's voice that was beginning to break , so that it was tuneless , the register awkward , the pitch uncertain . |
| 15 | The air smelt faintly of incense and , of course , that strange smell of faded flowers which emanated from the figure dressed in black who squatted beside Wolsey : Doctor Agrippa , supreme practitioner of the black arts though he looked like a mummer 's version of Friar Tuck in some masque about Robin Hood . |
| 16 | He resigned after a fans ' demonstration at a reserve team game . |
| 17 | The RL board of directors accepted Steadman 's explanation but said he was ‘ irresponsible ’ in not checking the contents of the medicine which he bought from a chemist 's shop . |
| 18 | A tall lean figure with deep lines carved vertically down his brown cheeks , he came into the office looking as cool as he did on a winter 's day . |
| 19 | He appeared in a children 's BBC Jackanory playhouse production of the Prattling Princess in which he played Prince Hugo . |
| 20 | After a display earlier this year he spoke about a teammates ' mistake , diving thorugh the ring of skydivers . |
| 21 | A businessman commenting on an experience he had in a stockbroker 's office in London when " I saw a beam of light between me and my eyes " commented , Although I was n't a particularly religious person , I realised immediately that this must be the thing that people call God . |
| 22 | ‘ No , ’ he said after a moment 's consideration . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , another round of sixty-five should do it , Jack , ’ he said after a moment 's hesitation , and then continued . |
| 24 | ‘ I see , ’ he said after a moment 's pause , ‘ order and elegance , bright colour , restraint , a conquering and a moulding of the less desirable aspects of nature . |
| 25 | Could I be before you answer that question , you did ask , did n't you , ask him to be hypothetical and say what would he say in a year 's time , and I think what |
| 26 | Even Hennessy was taken by surprise at the abrupt departure , and he stood in a moment 's confusion before turning and hurrying out . |