Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [noun sg] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made his debut a week or two after joining us and soon settled down at left-half , making the berth his own , but he was not seen at his best until Palace manager Tom Bromilow signed Les Lievesley from Torquay . |
| 2 | But , Erika , ’ he lowered his voice a little . |
| 3 | He lowered his head a fraction . |
| 4 | He knew the local man to be in his mid-forties , and he adjudged his companion a little over 30 . |
| 5 | He turns his head a little further and it comes to me that these are the people who are making the programme about Summerchild . |
| 6 | He produces his lunch a chunky meat and salad sandwich from a paper bag and talks about the rehearsal process . |
| 7 | Because the client or tenant is in a state of long-term indebtedness , he owes his patron a ‘ debt of gratitude ’ and should be ready to help the latter on a diffuse , non-contractual basis . |
| 8 | He was lying on his hard , as it were armour-plated , back and when he lifted his head a little he could see his domelike brown belly divided into stiff arched segments on top of which the bed quilt could hardly keep in position and was about to slide off completely . |
| 9 | He studied his son a moment , the smile never leaving his face , then nodded . |
| 10 | There he composed his wife a letter ( later found among Laura 's belongings by PC Myers ) . |
| 11 | He turned his head a little and she saw the blue glass flowering from his skull , its silken stamens drooping elegantly as he moved . |
| 12 | He poured his friend a fresh drink and pressed the glass into his shaking hand . |
| 13 | He buys his girl a man-made fibre wig , |
| 14 | Now that he had started , he threw his sister a challenging look and rushed on . |
| 15 | He shook his head a fraction and his gaze slid to the door and back — but even searching the hyacinth radiance around his head she could not guess what he really meant to do . |
| 16 | Of the composition of the ‘ bench of bishops ’ ( again the exact expression ) he shook his head a little sadly , though he knew some of them well : I felt he was not so enthusiastic about William Temple , now Archbishop of Canterbury , as many of his fellow-writers were , however , grudgingly . |
| 17 | Here , the wife is left exposed to the monk 's attentions when the husband shuts himself up in his counting-house ( 75 – 88 ) ; he delivers his wife a lecture on his " " curious bisynesse " " when she asks him to come down to eat ( 224 – 48 ) ; he must settle his affairs in Paris before he can settle back at home after his trip to Bruges ( 365 – 9 ) . |
| 18 | He signed my form a month ago and , and so he said to me |
| 19 | He was jumping up and down so much he gashed his shin a bit on the seat in front of him . |
| 20 | Most daring of all , he calls his plan a national transport policy . |
| 21 | He bowed his head a fraction , a ghost of a smile on his mouth . |
| 22 | Instead , he called his resignation a victory for ‘ squalid reporting ’ and accused the Press of having ‘ sordid appetites ’ . |
| 23 | Taking her arm , he slowed his pace a little , but still he moved through the darkness with the absolute confidence of some night creature . |
| 24 | He hit his drive a good 340 yards to find the fairway , invisible from the tee . |
| 25 | On 9 November 1916 he sent his mother a postcard : |
| 26 | Mr Koc said on a visit to Dr Crockett 's surgery he saw him hand a cheque to Mr Ata Nur Kuntar . |
| 27 | Mr Koc said on a visit to Dr Crockett 's surgery he saw him hand a cheque to Mr Ata Nur Kuntar . |
| 28 | He produced a box of matches , scraping one into flame and cupping his hand around it as he offered his companion a light . |
| 29 | He kept his head a little bent and did not really look up at the Curator . |
| 30 | He reared his torso a little way above hers in a pose that connected their loins in frightening intimacy . |