Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 Well , you could have put that scene he made on at a theatre in the West End and charged for tickets , I reckon .
2 Oh he used to wash them and he had a proper , he had a case what he made up with a rack so as he could drop them all in .
3 They did not keep him long , however , and this time he made off with a companion and even had the nerve to work for three months on a French farm before starting a marathon trek across the entire length of France .
4 A gunman fired more than 20 shots into the building , but as he made off in a stolen car , a soldier fired a single shot from an Army observation post on the top of a block of flats several hundred yards away .
5 He made off in a W-registered Ford Cortina estate , stolen in Middlesbrough on May 11 .
6 Noguchi tried in vain to construct an earthwork sculpture at a Japanese-American internment camp where he lived voluntarily for a time during World War II .
7 Leeds have agreed to pay Wigan £5,000 for every five first-team games he plays up to a maximum of £25,000 .
8 I visited him and he dosed up like a clam .
9 Suddenly he drifts off into a momentary reverie , gradually descending back to earth .
10 And he waxes portentously for a moment .
11 One of CD 's favourite books , which , like David Copperfield , he devoured eagerly as a child .
12 And so he turns aside under a pine tree , lays his sword and oliphant under him and lies down to die : he makes his confession , holds up his right glove to God and angels come and carry his soul to Paradise .
13 The major question thus always remains unanswered in the Critique : every time that Sartre announces that he is about to proceed with the fundamental problem of how History can be a totalization without a totalizer , he turns back to a previous , more easily intelligible stage on the way .
14 Every Sunday he turns out at a hall on a council scheme in Edinburgh to play 5-a-side football with his friends , trying by his own admission to re-live some of the opportunities he missed when he left Carrick Vale Secondary School at 15 to pursue a professional football career in London .
15 The answer is one of two things — a Labour government which he can not influence for the good , or a Labour government which he turns out in a few months , provoking another election .
16 This , he points out in a letter of December 1814 , was ‘ a passionate expression uttered incautiously ’ .
17 THIS is intense ! ’ mutters Emilio Estevez , as he flies about in a glowing car .
18 His eyesight was below par which disqualified him from being a pilot — and annoyed him a lot — but he passed out as a navigator .
19 And who was Kraus 's great friend in Berlin , who did he regard almost as a son ?
20 He goes up to a kiosk in Wenceslas Square and asks for a copy of Rude Pravo ( Red Truth ) , the Party newspaper .
21 He watches his expression carefully as he goes up to a beggar and puts a coin in his tin .
22 He 's , he 's , he 's jump , he , he , he goes up like a jump jet he goes
23 He goes in for a sort of hall-of-mirrors self-impersonation , telling people how he would have done the murder if he had done it ( which he has ) .
24 If your candidate is going to research the level of pollution in a local river , he does n't stand on the bridge and look ; he either wades in to feel for junk or he goes in with a professional diver to find it .
25 he went mad and he was trying to cover it up and that cos I mean over the club , and he goes there on a Saturday afternoon , he gets some stick over there .
26 and er , he said if he 's not better , any better when he goes back in a fortnight he 's gon na send him to a chest specialist , but you 've been a lot better have n't you ?
27 Moreover , in the stress on the pluralism of institutions and practices that organise sexuality , he goes further towards a neo-functionalism , and Foucault at times seems in danger of meeting up , as Nicos Poulantzas has put it , ‘ with an old tradition of Anglo-Saxon sociology and political science , running from functionalism to institutionalism — from Parsons , to Merton , Dahl , Lasswell , and Etzioni — a tradition in which the centre of analysis is shifted from the state towards the ‘ pluralism of micropowers ’ . ’
28 A horse will soon become used to the excitement of a show provided that he goes out on a regular basis from an early age .
29 The next morning he goes out for a walk round the town .
30 In 1904 he met up with a man named Blaney , and Young Buffalo was born .
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