Example sentences of "he [vb past] [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 whispered something into the ear of my dishevelled companion , who produced a bundle wrapped in old copies of Pravda . |
| 3 | As he stowed everything in the boot , Ashley noticed dark smudges beneath his eyes . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 ’ : |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He got nothing like the price of it . |
| 11 | He got everything into the character that I wanted . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Once he read something in a paper about Bella ; she seemed to have done rather well . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He hummed something from a Beethoven cello sonata . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He found one near the exit where the checkout girl was just opening up and Mum wheeled her trolley into the space . |
| 18 | He helped everybody in the local community . |
| 19 | In 1901 , as a member of the British congress on tuberculosis , he created something of a sensation . |
| 20 | But when he saw us running towards him , he shouted something to the driver , and the taxi drove off quickly down the road . |
| 21 | Dalgliesh felt that it was time he contributed something to the speculation . |
| 22 | The fact that he was an outstanding , if not completely graceful athlete , that he played anything with a racquet commendably well — I remember battling him at tennis in the oppressive heat of Guaruja to an 8–8 deadlock before we both gave up to avoid heat prostration — that he is a better than average golfer and could just as well have played football or cricket and enjoyed all sports , made him less exclusively obsessive about racing . |
| 23 | He muttered something about the place being primitive . |
| 24 | He muttered something in the direction of his wife , something about ‘ if she had a moment ’ . |
| 25 | He murmured something to the effect that youth must be served , ‘ John Donne ’ , but the interviewer did not take him up on his quotation . |
| 26 | Indeed he caused something of a turn-up when he named a Swede as one of his three wild card selections in the 12-man side to meet the United States at the Belfry at the end of the month . |
| 27 | And he said he noticed something on the path but he could n't see what it was . |
| 28 | The real trouble with him , according to the Anglo-Norman chronicler William of Malmesbury , was that he took nothing seriously , that " he turned everything into a joke and made his listeners laugh uncontrollably " . |
| 29 | He risked everything at the short 15th after his five-iron tee shot finished among the rocks . |
| 30 | He returned one to the pile and got a larger one . |