Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] [det] a [noun] " in BNC.

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1 The seller should of course resist such warranties because of their vagueness , and insist that , if he is to give such a warranty , the purpose should be clearly specified in the contract , with sufficient detail to enable him to be sure that the goods that he supplies are in fact suitable for that purpose .
2 It may explain why he is making such a mess of the job .
3 ‘ You do not pump out a man 's stomach because he 's drunk half a bottle of scotch , ’ said Dalziel .
4 He 's taught many a Clubrep to ski and with only a very few exceptions , he can virtually guarantee to get you up and around the bay first time .
5 And there is the use of mathematics , in this case the principle of the lever , which he was to use many a time in later work .
6 Many of think he would do it if he was given half a chance .
7 He was beaten half a length in probably the most controversial big Flat race run in England in the 1980s .
8 ‘ Yes , but she denied it , and then she said she did n't know why he was making such a fuss because it was n't his child anyway .
9 Yes , but he was doing that a second ago .
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