Example sentences of "a [adj] [noun pl] [conj] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | A few moments before he died he rubbed his cheek against our hands desperate for our touch , like a kitten or a very young baby ; in the next he was once again the brave young fighter pilot , and , in a curiously jaunty gesture he put his thumbs up , as though telling control tower he was ready now for take off . |
| 2 | He sat in the driver 's seat to get the feel for a few moments before he started it up . |
| 3 | Patrick awoke briefly during the night and lay awake , confused and troubled for a few moments until he realized where he was . |
| 4 | He lay on his back for a few moments as he always did , then turned onto his right side , arranging himself as if for sleep . |
| 5 | She thought they had started from different points , although she had wanted to marry him after only a few meetings because he ‘ felt good to be with ’ . |
| 6 | Mr Mekgwe was reportedly last seen in the company of three ANC men a few hours before he was due to give evidence . |
| 7 | It 's a few hours before he 's due onstage at the Tower Theater in Houston and Mister C is telling me , in a roundabout way , what his name stands for . |
| 8 | ELVIS PRESLEY 'S last letter , written a few hours before he died , was to an elderly woman he looked on almost as a mother . |
| 9 | Newman recalled briefly his experience at The Nag 's Head a few hours before he ended up in hospital . |
| 10 | It was Ginger who would find him slumped in his bathroom just a few hours after he wrote the letter . |
| 11 | Victor Frankenstein died a few hours after he had written his last word . |
| 12 | In the early evening of 25 August 1944 , a few hours after he had arrived in liberated Paris , de Gaulle stood at a window of the Hôtel de Ville and acknowledged the cheers of thousands of Parisians gathered down below . |
| 13 | Police believe he died a few hours after he was abducted . |
| 14 | No sooner had she begun manufacturing a few defences than he demolished them with a flick of his finger . |
| 15 | If it was , I reckoned I had a few minutes while he walked back there . |
| 16 | But a few minutes after he was launched into the speech he came to a dead stop , stared strangely at the gallery in silence , and could not go on . |
| 17 | For a few minutes after he came in , the rats were quiet . |
| 18 | The instinctive warning came to him a few minutes after he had cleared a small brook in an easy leap , and resumed the even rhythm of his distance-eating stride . |
| 19 | Professor St John Goth heard a door a few minutes before he last looked at his watch at twelve-forty-five . |
| 20 | He informs his head of security only a few minutes before he wants to go somewhere , not trusting even him . |
| 21 | We talked for a few minutes and he was in great spirits . |
| 22 | Yeah , even on the phone our Rob rings up and er , he 'll speak to me for a few minutes and he speaks |
| 23 | and Clifford , no Clifford said , the lads to each other are we going out again dad you know cos oh Margaret was in , yes , and there was some other boys , the boy across the road was eating something and the boys said and Clifford said do you mind if I just sit in the chair and be quiet for just a few minutes and he just sat in the chair and had his heart attack |
| 24 | He did this a few times before he realised the result would always be the same . |
| 25 | Hector McDarroch , on the other band , seemed to take a pleasure in showing off his grisly implements , filling the long-needled syringe right in front of my eyes and squirting the cocaine ceilingwards a few times before he started on me . |
| 26 | I 've seen him a few times and he 's never made a favourable impression on me ! |
| 27 | ‘ I 've spoken to him a few times and he 's the epitome of a true warrior . |
| 28 | Every time he walked that 's him come back again and every time he stopped it stopped and this happened a few times and he was very scared and he thought he had better go and see what the noise was and anything well it was just a pet sheep tangled up in its tether . |
| 29 | I only saw him a few times and he seemed to wander around in no-man 's land half the time doing bugger all . |
| 30 | very settled in the library er she went to the interview er and she said she 'd er remembered everything that the teacher had told them about how to present themselves at interviews and she went down and the er , the librarian says well , asked her a few questions and he says |