Example sentences of "he produced a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He produced a paper of his own straight away , which found favour with his political masters but was opposed by his fellow Chiefs of Staff , mainly because they distrusted his motives . |
| 2 | If he produced a book about once every five years , he could pretend to have been working on it all that time , even it he had cobbled it together only in the last two or three months . |
| 3 | Then , out of his overcoat pocket he produced a safety razor-blade , with which he sharpened the pencil he always used for his often indecipherable , cramped little scribbles — a sign , a psychiatrist later told me , of someone wanting to attract as little attention as possible , as in the case of Robert Walser . |
| 4 | In 1830 he produced a book on the state of the Hungarian economy entitled Credit , arguing for the abolition of entailment and other progressive measures . |
| 5 | Afterwards , he produced a fine whinge about the infringement of civil liberties . |
| 6 | Last week he produced a photograph of himself and dambuster bomb designer Barnes Wallis on the beach at Shingle Street , taken some time in the autumn of 1940 . |
| 7 | Mr. Jonathan Thomas Carr felt offended by what he considered was the ugly and tasteless housing being erected in the London suburbs , so he produced a scheme to create a garden suburb of Houses without basements , and of character within reach of people with moderate means , yet at the same time , retaining existing trees wherever possible . |
| 8 | In 1754 he produced a verse translation of De Animi Immortalitate by Isaac Hawkins Browne , the man who had edited Leapor 's second volume . |
| 9 | He produced a packet of cigarettes , and lit up . |
| 10 | He produced a large envelope from his desk and extracted a card . |
| 11 | From behind his back he produced a beautiful salmon , sea-liced and weighing about 8lb . |
| 12 | He produced a wad of large denomination bills and waved them in Franco 's face . |
| 13 | He produced a form from the inside of his greatcoat . |
| 14 | He produced a book from under his arm . |
| 15 | He produced a U.S. dollar bill , took a Canadian dollar from me and a Russian five-rouble note , stuck them together end to end , had the group sign them , and dubbed me a ‘ short-snorter ’ . |
| 16 | One year he produced a comic sketch called The Magic Hotel or How Tommy and his Uncle Herbert Spent a Quiet Night . |
| 17 | When he produced a new brochure he proudly placed portraits of his wife and himself side by side with his dancing sylphs . |
| 18 | He did not enter controversy again until 1623 when he produced a now-famous polemic book called The Assayer , acclaimed as the height of controversial writing . |
| 19 | From one of the voluminous pockets he produced a bottle of Scotch and put it down on the table . |
| 20 | He produced a dirty horny hand . |
| 21 | Out of his left pocket he produced a handful of candy-wrappers and , during the hush that followed , he created a forest fire for the Dobsons and their guests in the Dobson 's very own dining-room . |
| 22 | Whichever I chose would be empty and I 'd wait , wide-eyed with disappointment , till with a flourish he produced a small toy or sweets from behind his back . |
| 23 | Not all his arguments were entirely to the point , but he produced a confident and humorous speech . ’ |
| 24 | He produced a box of matches , scraping one into flame and cupping his hand around it as he offered his companion a light . |
| 25 | as if to show that bygones were bygones , he produced a bottle of Sandeman 's sherry from a cupboard and , though it was three in the afternoon , poured out glasses for all . |
| 26 | ’ He produced a cellophane bag containing two spent bullets . |
| 27 | But in the 86th minute of a frantic Roman derby , he produced a stunning headed goal as the game ended 1–1 . |
| 28 | He asked if I was in trouble and drove me back to the car park , where he produced a tow-rope . |
| 29 | He produced a book of blank bills and asked an Italian snapper to help him with his expenses . |
| 30 | And when he produced a photo of himself — completely orange — it was accepted by passport office staff at Newport , Gwent . |