Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | A Russian Jew , he lived in an elegant and beautifully ordered apartment , No. 112 Boulevard Malesherbes , his drawings all catalogued and filed in cabinets . |
| 4 | True to form , he attacked at an unexpected moment . |
| 5 | No one is safe from suspicion — let alone the audience on whom he turns with an accusatory stare . |
| 6 | He points to an inevitable parallel here between biological evolution and cognitive development in the life of an individual . |
| 7 | When he passed through an ivy-clad trellis arch and saw the man he sought , however , raking dead leaves and twigs into an incinerator , he realized how absurd the idea was that they could somehow be twin actors of the same part who had never met on stage till this unscripted moment . |
| 8 | Instead of employing the skills for which he is well paid , he passed to an offside Mo Johnston . |
| 9 | He agreed to an impromptu reading in the evening only to find later that he would not be paid for it . |
| 10 | Team captain Linford Christie will lead from the front as he goes for an unprecedented fourth successive 100m crown , while Colin Jackson ( 110m hurdles ) and Eamonn Martin ( 10,000m ) are also selected as defending champions . |
| 11 | But now he goes into an all-out attack , arguing that whereas relational properties presuppose the existence of certain non-relational , or " qualitative " , properties , the latter properties do not necessarily demand the existence of any " pluralistically committed " relational properties at all . |
| 12 | David Tory , the president of the Open Software Foundation , has added another directorship to his CV , joining the board of directors at Service Systems International Ltd where he sits alongside an old colleague , chairman of the board Sam Goodner . |
| 13 | So he resorted to an old favourite , which was to imagine himself as a First World War fighter ace engaged in an aerial duel with an enemy pilot . |
| 14 | He agrees with an unnamed British soldier that there were two wars being fought — against the designated enemy and against the army . |
| 15 | He rode through an ancient forest alone . |
| 16 | Obviously unwilling , he asked for an absurd sum for doing so , but eventually Omar settled with him for a reasonable amount . |
| 17 | He asked for an Irish song of love and loss . |
| 18 | He asked for an urgent meeting with Colonel Easterhouse . |
| 19 | When he asked for an artificial leg for his newly amputated right leg he was told not only that he could n't have one , but he 'd also have to give up his existing left false leg , which he 'd had for six years . |
| 20 | ‘ I hope … you do n't mind a man … leaning on you , ’ he asked with an innocent smile . |
| 21 | You may be able to work out that He refers to an animate masculine entity , the subject of both clauses . |
| 22 | He refers to an important part of the reforms that we are undertaking . |
| 23 | Whatever it was , Liam 's throat must have been bothering him something terrible for he got through an awful lot of the stuff that night . |
| 24 | He gazed at an ineffable , agonizing radiance which only he could perceive , banishing whatever throwback emotions the brew had triggered . |
| 25 | this fixed fee competitive scenario , then we will insist that we are actually comparing apples with apples and not apples with pears , whe when the client looks at our fee and he looks at an external consultant 's or another railway internal consultant 's fee |
| 26 | He looks like an interesting type . |
| 27 | ‘ Tell me about your acting career , ’ he invited with an abrupt change of topic as if to say the matter of the earrings was forgotten , though she knew it was n't . |
| 28 | It had not been contended in the course of the case that there was not a sale , until during the debate in your Lordships ' House that suggestion was made , and I think that , beyond doubt , anyone , who in answer to the advertisement acquired a record , would say that he had bought it and would be surprised that any doubt should be cast upon what he regarded as an obvious fact . |
| 29 | Hayman had implicit trust in his hit-men , especially against someone he regarded as an old , rusty , washed-up veteran . |
| 30 | I hear voices saying , ‘ Ah , he 's lucky , it 's alright for him , he lives in an historic place . ’ |