Example sentences of "with a [noun] [noun] he " in BNC.
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1 | With a fluid movement he stood up and came across to tilt her rigid chin up with his thumb . |
2 | Howard had , after a quick tour of the TARDIS , retired to his office with a brandy bottle he had been saving for a special occasion . |
3 | He spoke English with a Texan drawl he had acquired at the University of Austin . |
4 | But no warning could check Arthur Conway 's fury , and with a lightning leap he managed to grip the young man 's throat , and so fiercely that he forced him backwards , only the next moment to have his arms snapped downwards , when he would have fallen on his back if he had n't come up against the coalhouse wall and , unfortunately , a shovel that was propped there . |
5 | The home side have lost Mike McEvoy with a shoulder injury he collected in the Essex Amateur XI 's match against Hertfordshire on Sunday and is expected to be out of action for a fortnight . |
6 | The home side have lost Mike McEvoy with a shoulder injury he collected in the Essex Amateur XI 's match against Hertfordshire on Sunday and is expected to be out of action for a fortnight . |
7 | ( Two summers ago , on holiday in Greece with a school pal he had since lost touch with , he 'd been on a small , crowded , ramshackle train heading out of Athens over a scrubby plain in blistering heat . |
8 | With a jerking movement he turned to the house and pushed his way inside . |
9 | Yet it should have been better for , needing only to hit the 18th green with a sand wedge he went into a bunker , failed to get up and down and ended with a bogey five . |
10 | And although his name will always be associated with a Cocktail Party he found such uproarious assemblies , at which no one could have a satisfactory conversation , increasingly insupportable . |
11 | Playing black yesterday , Short again surprised Karpov with an opening variation he has never played before . |