Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Well , you could have put that scene he made on at a theatre in the West End and charged for tickets , I reckon .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Noguchi tried in vain to construct an earthwork sculpture at a Japanese-American internment camp where he lived voluntarily for a time during World War II .
5 Had he fallen out of an aircraft on its way from New York to Tripoli ?
6 Leeds have agreed to pay Wigan £5,000 for every five first-team games he plays up to a maximum of £25,000 .
7 I visited him and he dosed up like a clam .
8 And he waxes portentously for a moment .
9 One of CD 's favourite books , which , like David Copperfield , he devoured eagerly as a child .
10 And so he turns aside under a pine tree , lays his sword and oliphant under him and lies down to die : he makes his confession , holds up his right glove to God and angels come and carry his soul to Paradise .
11 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 .
12 This , he points out in a letter of December 1814 , was ‘ a passionate expression uttered incautiously ’ .
13 His eyesight was below par which disqualified him from being a pilot — and annoyed him a lot — but he passed out as a navigator .
14 And who was Kraus 's great friend in Berlin , who did he regard almost as a son ?
15 He goes up to a kiosk in Wenceslas Square and asks for a copy of Rude Pravo ( Red Truth ) , the Party newspaper .
16 He watches his expression carefully as he goes up to a beggar and puts a coin in his tin .
17 He 's , he 's , he 's jump , he , he , he goes up like a jump jet he goes
18 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 ) .
19 he went mad and he was trying to cover it up and that cos I mean over the club , and he goes there on a Saturday afternoon , he gets some stick over there .
20 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 ?
21 Moreover , in the stress on the pluralism of institutions and practices that organise sexuality , he goes further towards a neo-functionalism , and Foucault at times seems in danger of meeting up , as Nicos Poulantzas has put it , ‘ with an old tradition of Anglo-Saxon sociology and political science , running from functionalism to institutionalism — from Parsons , to Merton , Dahl , Lasswell , and Etzioni — a tradition in which the centre of analysis is shifted from the state towards the ‘ pluralism of micropowers ’ . ’
22 The next morning he goes out for a walk round the town .
23 In 1904 he met up with a man named Blaney , and Young Buffalo was born .
24 Likeable , cordial , he sits down in a chair facing her husband and herself and proceeds to converse with them .
25 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 .
26 Oh , shut up Ryan , and then he sits there for a bit , and she goes , yeah well , you used to wear national health spectacles .
27 In this he argued powerfully for a revival of social citizenship and the ‘ developmental state ’ .
28 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 .
29 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 .
30 But less than six months later he fought back with a Commons performance that impressed the House and Prime Minister Harold Wilson …
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