Example sentences of "he [verb] [indef pn] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made something of a jovial name for downright failure : a big , heavy man ( probably seventeen stone ) , he barely averaged more than four runs an innings and he took only eight wickets in his long but profoundly uneventful playing career . |
| 2 | He kept two in the house , one equipped with a bell so that he could ring should he want anything in the grave ! |
| 3 | He whispered something into the ear of my dishevelled companion , who produced a bundle wrapped in old copies of Pravda . |
| 4 | As he stowed everything in the boot , Ashley noticed dark smudges beneath his eyes . |
| 5 | But what so i it does he think something from the ga cos it keep coming on and off ? |
| 6 | It was only too apparent , as Olga tore into him about the disgrace she would suffer , that , like a hippie , he cared nothing for the kind of life his parents led ; he did not share their values or ambitions . |
| 7 | Gombert 's linear sense — and sometimes Crecquillon 's and Lupi 's was so strong that he cared nothing for the asperities of harsh suspensions or accented passing-notes , as in this passage from his motet , ‘ Ave sanctissima Maria ’ : |
| 8 | ‘ She says he met someone from the convent on the night that Lady Eleanor died , and that Father Reynard did go to Godstowe but then disappeared until the next morning . ’ |
| 9 | This seems to be true in spite of the fact that Spinoza was very much of a generation which was concerned to dissociate itself from the Greek inheritance , and indeed he represents something of a fresh injection of Jewish moral feeling into the main Christian current of Western thought . |
| 10 | Already something of an embarrassment after the publicity surrounding the leak of his report , he became something of a liability when the results of the polygraph tests also leaked out to the press . |
| 11 | In Division One he was subjected to a lot of dubious physical challenge and then , as Palace managers came and went , Vince 's role was constantly changing , so that he became something of an enigma to Palace fans who would one week marvel at his sinuous skills and near-perfect control but then despair at his virtual anonymity the next . |
| 12 | Earlier , I 'd had the good fortune to place my left ear point-blank to old Gavel Basher 's larynx as he asked everyone in a 20-mile radius ( or so it seemed ) to be seated . |
| 13 | He got nothing like the price of it . |
| 14 | He got everything into the character that I wanted . |
| 15 | I mean , he sell anything in the clothes line , anything . |
| 16 | And he thinks nothing of the travelling to and from training . |
| 17 | Glancing through a file ( which Harry took to be Heather 's ) with the pursed lips and darting eyes of an auditor perusing an unsatisfactory set of accounts , he conveyed none of the warmth or insight which Harry supposed successful psychoanalysis to require . |
| 18 | Once he read something in a paper about Bella ; she seemed to have done rather well . |
| 19 | They prepared Cameron for his appearance in the High Court of Justiciary by one final interview , a dry recapitulation of what had been said before , with the slightest of hints that it would go well for him if he divulged something about the United Scotsmen , who evidently still preyed on their minds . |
| 20 | What gets me about this guy Alderson is that he served in the country area of Cornwall , and he makes all these proposals about inner-city policing ; now how the hell would he know anything about the inner city ? |
| 21 | I mean , frankly , does he know anything about the inner workings of central heating ? ’ |
| 22 | He hummed something from a Beethoven cello sonata . |
| 23 | No answer , but perhaps he found something in the watchful face that was not quite mute , for he smiled , and deep within the hollow eyes a spark kindled . |
| 24 | He found one near the exit where the checkout girl was just opening up and Mum wheeled her trolley into the space . |
| 25 | He helped everybody in the local community . |
| 26 | Holding it up , he shouts something to the two Tibetans by the fire . |
| 27 | In 1901 , as a member of the British congress on tuberculosis , he created something of a sensation . |
| 28 | He has none of the other worries or tasks that you have to deal with daily . |
| 29 | It is not a happy precedent and if Mr Major is to avoid it , he needs somebody at the Treasury who commands confidence , and who deserves it . |
| 30 | But because he accepts something from the philosophers ' view , a view which leads to scepticism , he himself runs the risk of it . |