Example sentences of "he [verb] [indef pn] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made something of a jovial name for downright failure : a big , heavy man ( probably seventeen stone ) , he barely averaged more than four runs an innings and he took only eight wickets in his long but profoundly uneventful playing career . |
| 2 | This seems to be true in spite of the fact that Spinoza was very much of a generation which was concerned to dissociate itself from the Greek inheritance , and indeed he represents something of a fresh injection of Jewish moral feeling into the main Christian current of Western thought . |
| 3 | Towards the end of the story , Gowie does start to become much nicer — not because of people threatening him , but because he meets somebody with a stronger personality who wants to be his friend . |
| 4 | Quick as a flash , he shoots an arrow , but when he runs forward , he finds nothing but a stringy tree-rat . |
| 5 | He saw everything through a red mist . |
| 6 | He gives nothing on a corporate basis , believing shareholders should decide what to do with their dividends . |
| 7 | Inevitably , when he arrived home he found he had nothing but a blank sheet of photographic paper . |
| 8 | He said something about an insolent pup . ’ |
| 9 | He said nothing for a few seconds , and I sensed that I might have unsettled this policeman . |
| 10 | ‘ The job he offered me was a sort of general factotum , a personal troubleshooter , but he wanted someone with a financial background . |