Example sentences of "he [verb] a [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BROOKSIDE actor Dean Sullivan who plays roguish Jimmy Corkhill stepped into a real-life drama when he made a citizen 's arrest after a valuable painting was damaged at an art gallery . |
| 2 | The following year , with two companions , he made a record 1,171-mile voyage to Russia . |
| 3 | He turns a child 's palm upward , |
| 4 | My family will squeak with outrage when he turns a biologist 's eye on art and on drug abuse and suggests they are status indicators for age-old sexual selection . |
| 5 | ‘ He turns a father 's eye , naturally , on Bishop Malduin 's work . |
| 6 | A year ago last October he planned a year 's tour in Turkey . |
| 7 | However , after a short period in 1732 at the Dissenting Academy in Findern , Derbyshire , he became a justices ' clerk in Sheffield until 1737 and then commenced work as a carrier between Sheffield and Macclesfield . |
| 8 | In 1273 he became a king 's clerk . |
| 9 | After the victory of Simon of Montfort , Earl of Leicester [ q.v. ] , he became a king 's clerk . |
| 10 | Other profoundly moving gestures are to be found in MacMillan 's The Invitation and particularly in his Requiem when he evokes a child 's wonder of life in the solo , Pie Jesu ( see page 136 ) . |
| 11 | Houdon ( 1741–1828 ) for the directness with which he conveyed a sitter 's presence and personality without obtruding himself between subject and viewer . |
| 12 | He wins a year 's subscription to PFK . |
| 13 | He contributed time and money generously to Warrington : he was mayor in 1882 , alderman in 1885 , and freeman in 1891 ; he built a working-men 's mission , and supported schools , the library , the infirmary , and other institutions . |
| 14 | A police frogman has told a court how he found a woman 's body at the bottom of the River Severn . |
| 15 | A total of five extra crew were taken on board over the next three months , including a new master , Edward Barker ; he found a ship 's company of nine men — Robert Gray , the steward , having died a day after Robert Titford . |
| 16 | He 's moved the story to Russia , sent the Prince on army manoeuvres where he joins a boys ' boozy night out , has the swans massacred by a power-mad crippled usurper and the corpses piled obscenely in a heap . |
| 17 | He also intends to spend more time in the air as he holds a pilot 's licence . |
| 18 | Despite his airforce fatigues ( he has a pilot 's licence ) and handlebar moustache ( he is a cult on the military base circuit ) his feet never leave the ground : but close your eyes and you 'd never know it . |
| 19 | First , he has a scholar 's knowledge of , and passion for , opera — he writes many of Opera North 's programme notes , and very good they are too . |
| 20 | He has a lifetime 's belongings here and we could hardly expect Carrie to move into Fern Cottage . ’ |
| 21 | Massine took this theme from Tchaikovsky 's own letters to his patron in which he described a composer 's search for ideas . |
| 22 | He described a youth 's sexual attack on a young girl as ‘ a breath of fresh air . ’ |
| 23 | A man who tempered sentiment with business sense , it was said of Guillaume that he revealed the price of a painting with the same air of awed reverence that he mentioned a woman 's age . |
| 24 | He says a ploughman 's lunch . |
| 25 | He received a hero 's welcome after flying his monoplane , Spirit of St Louis , from New York non-stop to Paris in 33½ hours . |
| 26 | Adam was raised in the jungle , where he 's convinced he received a baboon 's heart as a replacement for his own . |
| 27 | Graham Shaw , ex-Cadbury Schweppes , said he always gulped when he received a headhunter 's bill , and certainly took cost into account in choosing between the methods . |
| 28 | Looking for excitement and with little thought for his family , he steals a friend 's car , knocks down and badly injures a girl and is taken to court . |
| 29 | When he describes a mother 's death and her child 's bereavement , heaven knows you do n't need a picture . |
| 30 | He describes a skylark 's nest which he found tucked away in a hoof print : ‘ Behind a clod/ how snug the nest/ is in a horse 's footing fixed/ of twitch and stubbles roughly dressed/ with roots and horsehair intermixed . ’ |