Example sentences of "and he [verb] [to-vb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And he had to spend a good part of the campaign explaining that it meant caution and not complacency . |
| 2 | That was £45,000 over the odds , even for a brand-new model — and he had to get a secondhand one because back in 1989 the prestige-car market was still booming and the limited supply of Lamborghinis imported from Italy had already been snapped up . |
| 3 | Mr Tholen chaired their appeal committee which raised £250,000 in three months and he continues to invest a small covenant in the school . |
| 4 | Upon leaving the Institution , he was apprenticed to a bookbinder but this did not satisfy his ambitions , and he began to take a leading part in the affairs of the deaf . |
| 5 | Charles , who had a taste for mechanical devices , commissioned Gionallo Torriano of Cremona to repair it , but owing to corrosion he found that this was impossible and he agreed to make a similar instrument . |
| 6 | In Joliet , Illinois , a witness under hypnosis was asked to ‘ stop the video and zoom in ’ on the face of the criminal and he managed to give a detailed description of a man , who was duly arrested and charged . |
| 7 | Naturally , he was speechless with rage and he seemed to go a funny colour , rather like the top range of a steel tempering chart — cherry red . |
| 8 | And he continued to drive a battered 1979 pick-up truck , its upholstery chewed to pieces by his beloved hunting dogs . |
| 9 | The audience did n't want to let him go and he returned to sing a little jazz , leaving the stage to rapturous applause . |
| 10 | He first came to prominence as a speaker when he joined the British Union of Fascists , founded by Sir Oswald Mosley [ q.v. ] , after some years at Birkbeck College where he obtained a first-class honours degree in English , and he helped to found a National Socialist party in London . |
| 11 | I do n't know but an ordinary barge used to have a little wooden crate and he want to have a little tank , they put a fixed charge on of two and six pence that 's what they done . |
| 12 | And he wants to see a careful scrutiny to make sure that the existing money is used to greatest effect . |
| 13 | A man gets tired of his business and his family , and he wants to have a good time . |
| 14 | Gossip has it that his wife had recently left him and he wanted to make a clean break . |