Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | A son of Green Desert , Magic Ring is out of an Empery mare and there are indications that he will stay a mile despite the amazing speed he displayed as a juvenile . |
| 2 | For all his thinking he came to a sole conclusion . |
| 3 | In his first experiment he cut from a sheet of mica a normal hour-glass shaped test-piece ( Figure 6(b) ) . |
| 4 | On another level , an actor is someone who remembers what it felt like to be spurned , to be proud , to be angry , to be tender — all the manifestations of emotion he experienced as a child , as an adolescent , in early manhood and maturity . |
| 5 | Without showing any sign of emotion he stood for a while at the head of the bier . |
| 6 | The 30-year-old Scouser plays his first game for Coventry since his £250,000 permanent move from Newcastle against Liverpool , the club he worshipped as a boy . |
| 7 | Before then he had 14 years in charge of West Ham , the club he joined as a schoolboy player and where he progressed through the ranks . |
| 8 | Redmond , now with Oldham , is slowly recovering from the misery of his final few months at the club he joined as a boy . |
| 9 | The irony for him now is that a third success could relegate the club he supported as a boy . |
| 10 | As he reached the parked sports car he went into a rolling dive , still clutching his leg , and bounced himself off the bonnet and over the other side . |
| 11 | To his right wing the Zoo stretched away in the distance ; Three Island Pond he recognized as a paler shape than the rest with lights on the paths around to mark it out ; the Cages were in front of it with several Men around them . |
| 12 | Among several humiliating results for the PLA in urban areas , however , was the defeat of President Ramiz Alia in the seat he contested in a Tirana constituency , where provisional figures recorded the DP candidate winning 62.5 per cent to Alia 's 32 per cent . |
| 13 | In 1979 , he was elected MP for Putney , south-west London , the seat he held with an increased majority last Thursday despite predictions that he faced defeat . |
| 14 | After tea he dozed through an old Peter Sellers film at the King 's Road Classic , dined off a biriani , dozed through an old Tati film at the Baker Street Classic , and crept upstairs to his flat just in time to meet Mounce coming downstairs from his den . |
| 15 | After that result he disappeared for a short while , but he returned in time to be included in Wilson 's government , initially as Secretary of State for Economic Affairs , a post he held between 1964 and 1966 . |
| 16 | He has no heroes , except perhaps Kemal Ataturk , the stern maker of modern , secular Turkey , whose discoloured photograph he saw at a Turkish border post . |
| 17 | On the advice of Lyell and Hooker he arranged for an account of his own theory to be published alongside Wallace 's paper by the Linnean Society of London . |
| 18 | Gina Bellman stars as the girl who may or may not be his demure wife — and who may or may not be a hooker he meets in a hotel . |
| 19 | In the last interview he gave to a French journalist before the war began , Ho , in envisaging the way in which ‘ at all costs war must be averted ’ , seemed to accept independence within the French Union ; although unless this was based on a total misunderstanding of the nature of the French Union , which also seems unlikely , this was probably more of a smoke-screen than a smoke-signal . |
| 20 | In an Aug. 12 interview he referred to a split in the Polisario leadership dating back to 1988 and said that he was " rallying against those who are stubbornly persisting in imposing a disastrous situation on our people … a dead-end solution " . |
| 21 | By the advice of his college he competed for a college research Fellowship , known as the Charles Kingsley Bye-Fellowship . |
| 22 | Some novelist went up to a critic last night and thanked him for a review he wrote on a novel of his in about the year 1900 and congratulated him because he got it right . |
| 23 | In the flickering light he appears like a cat moving around cautiously . |
| 24 | Paul Bedworth , now studying artificial intelligence in Edinburgh , is said to have spent hours in his bedroom using a £200 terminal he received as a Christmas present to cause chaos , by breaching hi-tech systems in numerous countries . |
| 25 | After dark he stopped at a Little Chef , had a quick meal of scrambled eggs and coffee , then continued his journey . |
| 26 | In practice he acts as a constitutional head of state . |
| 27 | In practice he acts as a formal head of state . |
| 28 | Being black was a potential impediment he transformed into a stimulus . |
| 29 | From anger and animosity he turned in a split second to a benevolent caring brother only here to see justice done . |
| 30 | The 16-year-old , who can not be named for legal reasons , was granted bail at Sunderland , Tyne and Wear , on condition he stayed at a residential school run by the local authority until his next court appearance on October 7 . |