Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] a [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the rebels formed a provisional National Defence Junta a week after the start of the rising , Franco was not a member , although he became one a few weeks later . |
| 2 | He asked them a few times . |
| 3 | While he waited he asked us a few basic and searching questions about our discovery . |
| 4 | ‘ So he got me a few gigs round the Irish pubs , and I had to learn off some traditional Irish ballads quickly for the sort of audiences you got there certainly did n't want to hear me singing songs by James Taylor or Simon and Garfunkel . |
| 5 | Could he give them a few facts about himself for the company 's press release ? |
| 6 | He joined her a few minutes later carrying her drink and a glass of lager for himself . |
| 7 | Could he drop me a few grams on credit ? |
| 8 | He permitted himself a few seconds to savour his revenge , before delivering the coup de grace with a heti'i power-kick , which would snap Grant 's neck like a dried stick . |
| 9 | So I was not surprised when he rang me a few weeks later to say that Dorothy was in hospital . |
| 10 | He took it a few feet out , so now he was on the edge of the 18 yard box … near the corner ( so approx 25 yards from goal ) , he pulled it back the other way , turned and curled the ball into the top left corner with his left foot . |
| 11 | He gives us a few outlines of ‘ paper logic ’ followed by a paragraph or two describing some of the religious experiences themselves . |
| 12 | He bought it a few days ago . |
| 13 | He gave me a few quick , curious glances from time to time as I slowly sipped my coffee , but he did not appear to have heard any of the rumours . |
| 14 | who is a tough and widely experienced chap and he gave me a few more ideas to mull over . |
| 15 | Anyway , he gave them a few examples of the jobs he was looking for and they told him he was unqualified . |
| 16 | ‘ He is without doubt their greatest danger and he gave us a few problems last week . ’ |
| 17 | He gave it a few pumps and collected an armful of logs for the stove before going in through the back door . |
| 18 | He gave it a few more seconds to get him through the next traffic signals and then killed it again . |
| 19 | He gave it a few more minutes . |
| 20 | He closed it a few months after Maxwell 's paper folded — with a circulation of only about 100,000 . |