Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E looked like an Italian but 'e did n't speak like they do . |
| 2 | The man next to him winked in a fast act of conspiracy , a runner bean of a man who then extended his hand to Holly and their fists gripped in a distant greeting , but there were no words . |
| 3 | When Albert missed the child most urgently , the refusal of money for him seemed like a moral tactic to take him away forever . |
| 4 | From the corner of my eye I see Walter return and realise with a start that the person accompanying him enswathed in a black bournous is Marianne . |
| 5 | I mean he saw he sh great pace was shown then it was a nothingy ball that he made into a good situation . |
| 6 | He was saved from sinking even lower by the balm of a journey he made in an open cart to Zweeloo with his landlord , who had to go to the market in Assen . |
| 7 | was getting really cross and was beginning to call the police over she just produced a card and they just throw it and said this means nothing to me , this means nothing to me , cover your head and she just laughed at them and walked away , but he , he pounced on a Filipino girl who was actually wearing jeans , and socks and said her jeans were too short |
| 8 | Kuypers was the first to use this technique in studies of the brain and over the next 10 years , now in the United States , he charted at a new level of detail the connections made by the cerebral cortex with nervous elements in the brain-stem and spinal cord that control movement in a number of higher mammals . |
| 9 | Scott inherited the family estate in 1596 , but from 1612 until towards the end of his life he lived for a good part of the year in Canterbury . |
| 10 | In 1902 he lived for a short period in Clerkenwell , east London . |
| 11 | The principle which would have to be established first of all is that each person in the world ( all those aged 21 or over , suggests Dr Grubb ) would have an equal share in man-made carbon dioxide emissions , regardless of whether he lived in a rich developed country or a poor one which produced hardly any carbon dioxide at all . |
| 12 | His name was Fred Paxford , and he lived in a small wooden bungalow on the other side of the brick kilns . |
| 13 | He lived in a small house there with his brothers and sisters , all Israeli citizens who spoke Hebrew and lived and worked in Israel . |
| 14 | He lived in a small cottage in the fields just off what is now Princess Way . |
| 15 | Grandfather 's wage was the magnificent sum of twelve shillings per week and of course he lived in a tied cottage . |
| 16 | He lived in a good loose-box , and was let out to water twice a day . |
| 17 | He lived in a pleasing little flat some distance away from the prison . |
| 18 | He lived in a quiet road off the south side of Clapham Common in a small Victorian semi , with tiny patches of garden at front and back . |
| 19 | Now he lived in a neat semi-detached on the outskirts of Bradford with his wife and three lovely kids , earning a comfortable , respectable living doing weddings , portraits , the odd news pic for the local paper . |
| 20 | He lived in a big Moscow flat down one of the side-streets in the Arbat . |
| 21 | Except he lived in a big house up on the Ridge . |
| 22 | He lived in a big , warm cave with his mother and father dinosaur . |
| 23 | He lived in a big house which had a bright red front door . |
| 24 | He lived in a converted cowshed and was exercised by his owner , who raced his three horses simply for the fun of it . |
| 25 | He felt as though he lived in a purposeless world . |
| 26 | In the summer , he lived in a little house surrounded by sunflowers higher than it was , beside a village with a pale blue pump in the centre , with geese marching around , pigeons gurgling ( they have a different accent on the Continent ) and people sitting on walls gossiping in the evening . |
| 27 | ‘ Someone in television told me he lived in an ordinary flat by the Park , with nothing but a secret service man lurking in the lobby . ’ |
| 28 | A Russian Jew , he lived in an elegant and beautifully ordered apartment , No. 112 Boulevard Malesherbes , his drawings all catalogued and filed in cabinets . |
| 29 | He had a growing circle of friends , almost entirely non-aristocratic , both in Worcestershire and in London , both inside and outside the House of Commons , and he entertained on a moderate scale . |
| 30 | Increasingly , he realised with a certain satisfaction that this was a family of shame and scandal . |