Example sentences of "he [verb] [adj] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He became close to a third title in 1968 but succumbed to his McLaren team-mate Ayrton Senna . |
| 2 | In the mid-1630s , John Williams , who as Bishop of Lincoln was one of the few remaining non-Laudian prelates , made public his opposition to his colleagues ' initiative ; he became involved in a heated literary battle on the subject with the staunch Arminian , Peter Heylyn , and following the publication of his work The Holy Table Name and Thing , he was thrown into prison . |
| 3 | A workman was rescued by the fire brigade at the weekend when he became stuck on a hydraulic platform while working at the Seabird Hotel , The Front , Seaton Carew . |
| 4 | Unfortunately for George Broomham , he became besotted with a local barmaid , a comely and attractive young widow , a lady of somewhat easy virtue called Dorothy Newman . |
| 5 | In December he became ill after a four-day " smog " and collapsed . |
| 6 | He became aware of a new sound in the night It was a rushing , roaring sound . |
| 7 | He seemed fixed in a dour , obsessive concentration that defied approach . |
| 8 | Once already he had lost control , the wheels sliding away from under him as he slewed clear of a steep-sided washway . |
| 9 | Nick Brown thought his two year ordeal was over when he walked free from a Goan Jail last month . |
| 10 | He seems resigned to a shortened climbing career , but content that he 's made it all . |
| 11 | Then the smell of warm grass came to join that of the roses and gunpowder and he fell asleep for a few moments , dreaming of cricket fields and meadows . |
| 12 | He fell asleep for a few hours just before dawn and woke cold and cramped , his head on the small desk , his body somehow wedged on the stool . |
| 13 | He fell silent for a few moments , shredding the paper that had wrapped his sugar cube . |
| 14 | Then he fell silent for a little while , as if in meditation . |
| 15 | BRITON Michael Ford called in the US Navy when he fell ill on a Greek holiday — and was treated like an admiral . |
| 16 | Once , hearing an unaccountable noise in front of him , which ceased on the instant , he kept still for a long time ; and when at last he moved cautiously forward , found Silver crouching behind a tussock of cock's-foot for fear of the sound of his own approach . |
| 17 | ‘ He kept quiet for a long time working out how long soap could keep for , then he just said , ‘ Well , we 'll have to sell the things . ’ |
| 18 | He felt Bleath-like to a surprising degree . |
| 19 | AN epileptic was mugged at knife-point as he lay semi-conscious after a crippling fit . |
| 20 | He lay awake for a long time looking for possible connections between the incidents and listening to Rain breathing . |
| 21 | Soon the lawyer said goodnight and went home to bed , where he lay awake for a long time thinking about Enfield 's description of Hyde , and Doctor Jekyll 's will . |
| 22 | He emerged intact from a chastening first championship appearance in a Martlet sweater , taking the only Hampshire wicket to fall on a gruelling opening day and bowling more overs than anyone all told . |
| 23 | The entry specified that he had Spanish as a foreign language , which made me smile , for his Spanish had never been more than rudimentary , though of course it might have improved since he was in Salamanca . |
| 24 | He becomes involved in a wicked German plot to invade England across the North Sea , from the Frisian Islands . |
| 25 | The sister of one his patients , she 's also a mobster 's wife , so when Barr falls under her spell , he becomes involved in a passionate affair that leads to obsession , betrayal and murder . |
| 26 | But if he borrows the same amount a second time he becomes liable to a second charge . |
| 27 | Thus , Scott J concluded that not only does an original landlord remain liable to an original tenant throughout the lease , but he remains liable to a later assignee of the lease , despite the absence of any privity , thus achieving mutuality between the liability of an original landlord and that of an original tenant … |
| 28 | Always got like that when he sat still for a long time . |
| 29 | He sat alone on a trestled wooden bench , wondering what changes he would find on his return to the East End . |
| 30 | He sat silent for a long moment , recollecting how the past few years had dealt with Donata Blount and her family . |