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

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1 I saw 'im in the Observer wearing all that leather clobber and 'e looked like a man after me own heart , man .
2 Athelstan was always surprised at-the effect he caused ; here he was in a place where man died for the price of a few coins , but at the sight of the lighted wax candle , the sound of the small tinkling bell and him swathed in a cope , the coarsest men and women stood aside as if they acknowledged the great mysteries he carried. ,
3 The cameraman then came on board and we left the quay ; we returned and he transferred to a motor boat to film us leaving the quay .
4 His eyes were wild , and he blew on a hunting horn .
5 His eyes opened in alarm , but before he could say anything his concentration lapsed and he dropped like a stone , vanishing behind the far end of the table .
6 Ken Wolstenholme was never really lost to football after he left the Beeb and he commentated for a time on ITV 's Tyne Tees station and recently worked for Tottenham 's Clubcall line .
7 ‘ He is thinner than Hess , he is stupider than Hess , and he thinks like a peasant .
8 Well , Edgar Wallace ( a writer not to be despised , as he sometimes is ) once said that vanity is at the back of most murders , and he had as a reporter covered many a murder trail .
9 He was dressed Yek style in a loose tunic and breeches , and he had on a surcoat which was stiff with gold embroidery .
10 And he talks like a translation . ’
11 He was little more than five feet tall , slender all his life , and exuding a febrile energy that served in place of strength until it was periodically depleted and he fell into a relapse , paralleled as he grew older by deep depression of spirits .
12 D. T. Timins was one of their eager reporters , and he began with a visit to the London and South-Western 's Nine Elms Station .
13 The question was direct and he blinked for a moment before answering : ‘ Yes , ’ he said , ‘ honestly yes , I will .
14 Without trust , ’ and he came to a standstill and tipped his chin into the air , the thought still forming .
15 Griffith had come to the movies quite late in life and he came as a man whose varied experiences and whose accumulated opinions , myths , and prejudices had given him a sense of America and of himself as having a place in it .
16 An unaccustomed self-pity overtook him , sitting in the straw , and he went into a trance , thinking of all the ways he lost out , trying to think of one positive factor in his favour .
17 Oh no no , if he , if he tried to pull a fast one we 've already had one like that th that came in and bought a set unfortunately his father paid by cheque , oh no , well he paid by two cheques which , they had a card on them I know very well they ca n't stop them very well and he went out and er , and er the T V was only in the car and he went round a corner quick and he went brrrm like that you know
18 And in the pursuit he came up to King Yucef , and smote him three times : but the King escaped from under the sword , for the horse of the Cid passed on in his course , and when he turned , the King being on a fleet horse , was far off , so that he might not be overtaken ; and he got into a Castle called Guyera , for so far did the Christians pursue them , smiting and slaying , and giving them no respite , so that hardly fifteen thousand escaped of fifty that they were .
19 This incident finally convinced Charles that he should abandon his efforts to work with parliament , and he embarked on a period of personal rule , which lasted until 1640 .
20 And he looked on a list he had and he put seven something .
21 A real wanderer , and he looked for a sign of her inheritance in himself .
22 Her husband , Bill Clough , seemed awkward and unsure of himself : his suit fitted badly , and he looked like a comic who has unwisely accepted a serious part in provincial rep .
23 I mean when he was born they laid him on me , he 'd had the cord round his neck three times and he looked like a tortoise with his long neck and this little tiny head [ laughs ] .
24 He had a nice red car and he had this and he looked like a singer , like er , you know the kind of things that I like , right , women that look , they dress nicer , like .
25 He was a tall , thin man of about fifty and he looked like a bloodhound , even to the wet nose , and had a nauseating habit of drooling sentimentally about his wife to anyone who would listen .
26 He stood there , the others making a semicircle in the room , and he looked like a criminal before his accusers .
27 She took off her hat and laid it on the table , and he saw with a sense of shock that her hair was white down the line of the parting where the tinting had grown out .
28 His change of bank with the same g sends his nose up and he climbs into a barrel roll .
29 His left leg was cut off above the knee and he walked with a crutch under his left shoulder .
30 and he walked past a skip that was burning , little spark came out , whoosh and he went up .
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