Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun] [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Last Friday after a court appearance he was being taken by taxi to Bullingdon Prison in Oxfordshire . |
| 2 | In the course of a 24-hour drama the kidnapper , Orlando Ordoñez Betancourt , successfully demanded that they be flown with him to Honduras , where after an airport siege he was granted safe passage to Mexico . |
| 3 | After an eye test he was given the rank of petty officer engineer and directed to Victoria Station to take charge of 20 similar recruits . |
| 4 | — Peter Sellers , telling reporters of a heart attack he had while making love to Britt Ekland . |
| 5 | Only last year , Belgian motor racing ace , Bertrand Gachot lost his place in the Silverstone-based Jordan team when jailed for spraying CS Gas in the face of a taxi driver he 'd crashed into . |
| 6 | He gives me the address of a boarding house he could stay at in Earls Court . |
| 7 | With all the subtlety of a pub singer he prises away the so-called glamour and reveals a hard world full of sadness , unfulfilled dreams and barren values . |
| 8 | For example , many a small child knows that to alleviate the pain and irritation of a nettle sting he need only reach for the nearest broad-leaved docken , ( Rumex obtusifolius ) and rub it on the offending part for instant relief . |
| 9 | If the occupier has reason to anticipate the presence of a child trespasser he would do well to erect an obstacle to entry that is not in itself dangerous . |
| 10 | As a great favour , the well-known proprietor of a cigar shop he frequented introduced him to a ‘ gentleman ’ with a den in Piccadilly who offered to ‘ help him out of his difficulty ’ by lending him the money . |
| 11 | Following receipt of a Government letter he had written to express concern at the lack of information and support , to which there had been no reply . |
| 12 | With the help of a night nurse he found the right room and tiptoed in . |
| 13 | Batty could n't make it for the second half against Villa after a recurrence of a calf injury he received against Wimbledon last Saturday . |
| 14 | With just the aid of a walking stick he had made his way to the Blue Boar followed by most of the kids in the village , who must have thought he was some sort of God . |
| 15 | A former bus driver is staging an all night sit in outside the offices of a training organisation he claims forced him out of a job . |
| 16 | I remember when he always used to read out during the service before the sermon the previous week 's collection and it used to consist of the collection last Sunday consisted of one pensioning note , twenty ha'penny half crown pieces , forty florins and he 'd go all through the coinage down to the last ha'penny but erm oh I believe he was , he was er very aristocratic , very aristocratic , but er Father , cos he used to come over our house quite a lot when my mother was on the parochial church council , and er he had a curate that was quite leftish and he got himself on the old Board of Guardians and of course he used to sort of er go into the Labour Club and was quite of er father , he said to old Father one night he said erm he 's a funny chap your curate he said well he , he 's the son of a farm labourer he says and I 'm the son of a country squire and that 's the difference . |
| 17 | on top of a hill thinking he was gon na get blown off . |
| 18 | O'Toole always refused to say why and when he stopped drinking , but denied that it was because of a stomach operation he underwent . |
| 19 | I am proud of an England shirt he gave me . ’ |
| 20 | L t Watts hopes to return to Bosnia where he experienced the most stimulating six months of an army career he embarked on at just 18years-old . |
| 21 | He will be on first-name terms with many of them , and if he fails to contact his supporters individually in the course of an election campaign he will risk losing their votes . |
| 22 | Concern was also expressed in some quarters when it became known that Christopher Ball was to be appointed Chairman of the Board , on the grounds that as head of an Oxford College he would not appear to have the intimate knowledge of the further education system that such a post requires . |
| 23 | He held a newly-made fish cake in his two hands like a cricket ball he had just caught . |
| 24 | He 's , he 's , he 's jump , he , he , he goes up like a jump jet he goes |
| 25 | With midfielder John Gannon passing a test on a calf strain , manager Dave Bassett has no injury worries against a QPR side he believes can emerge as title dark horses . |
| 26 | A DYING lung cancer victim is fighting against time to finish his evidence for his £500,000 test case against a tobacco company he blames for his illness . |
| 27 | When he applied to one college for a teaching job he was told bluntly they would have nothing to do with blind people . |
| 28 | CUBA offered yesterday to treat the pop idol Michael Jackson for a skin disease he has said afflicts him . |
| 29 | Staff at the BICC wiring division headquarters on Merseyside crossed their divide when Riley recommended casual clothing for a discussion day he had arranged in the Lune Valley . |
| 30 | Staff at the BICC wiring division headquarters on Merseyside crossed their divide when Riley recommended casual clothing for a discussion day he had arranged in the Lune Valley . |