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Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	’ 'E walks like a man as means business , ’ Jonadab remarked .
2	he crosses with a right
3	Frustrated by his lack of social acceptance he retreats into a world of fantasy and self-delusion … with tragic results .
4	The usually respectable FRAME News , the newsletter of the Fund for the Replacement of Animals in Medical Experiments , published it in full ( 1988 : 1–2 ) , and Langley in the Dr Hawden Trust 's Alternative News analysed with some alarm ( he signs of a fight back on the part of the American medical establishment after many years of tactical passivity known as the ‘ bunker strategy ’ ( 1988 : 6–7 ) .
5	It 'll be up to him whether he throws me to the dogs and I finish up in a debtor 's prison , or whether he turns into a guardian angel complete with halo and big fat cheque .
6	In a moment of weary despair , he turns to a colleague and says , ‘ It 's like pissing into the wind ! ’
7	I hope that Mr. Blackham will remember them when he turns on a tap in his own kitchen .
8	He points to a spot on the ceiling .
9	He points to a spot in the grass about ten yards away .
10	When told to leave all behind , his past , his roots , his culture , his sense of belonging , his status and position in society and the family , the friendship , support and love of those close to him , everything except for Sarah , his wife , and Lot , his nephew , he goes without a moment 's hesitation .
11	They threaten to ‘ expose ’ a misdeed , probably a genuine mistake or perhaps complete fiction , but the salvation is that if he goes without a murmur the matter will be hushed up .
12	He goes to a nursery somewhere though does n't he ?
13	He goes to a day centre three days a week but it would help if he could have a two- or three-week holiday somewhere every now and again .
14	He goes to a school in the Tene Valley , it 's a teacher that , he used to go to Exeter school and the teacher 's opened her own school and , only for lo a small time and then she 's opening up actually in Exeter but this is an in between and she 's a very good teacher !
15	Not sure , I must ask her where he does he goes to a Marks where they always have every possible man 's suit that Marks make and and he takes the time to buy two or even three because he does n't get that much time for shopping .
16	He goes on a newspaper in Marie 's room .
17	He goes on a bit but he 's basically very good-hearted and kind .
18	When he comes back he goes on a hunger strike for chicken .
19	The Mayor of Whitby , Coun Maurice Hatton , will not be taking the official chain of office when he goes on a pilgrimage to the German town of Kleve on April 30 , because of its high value .
20	At Ann 's he goes into a rant about the people of Pinner Green who are annoying him .
21	He goes into a restaurant and he says oh the waiter erm let me see the menu and he looks at the menu and said right , he said .
22	He goes in a pushchair do n't he ?
23	When Buck goes to a diner , he sits at a table opposite a creepy woman with a nervous tic who keeps running a grey rubber mouse over her face .
24	There he sits at a table , a confident and debonaire man-about-town , a bachelor with even a touch of the dandy about him .
25	He sits on a bar stool in the centre of a circle of friendly faces , talking amiably .
26	Andy Gray , on Sky , said that he sits on a panel to decide if a goal is an OG or not … and can then take goals off players .
27	He sits on a bed , in the gloom , looking more wretched than ever .
28	He sits on a bench in his braces ,
29	Now he sits on a therapy group helping the same types of people he used to lock up .
30	He has a few modish novels , a collection of articles by Paul Bordieu , a copy of the New York Review and some scripts lying on the table in front of the sofa where he sits with a bottle of Yorre — never Perrier — and an ice bucket of champagne , sacramental , in front of him to greet the actresses as they are shown in .