Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | 'E looked like an Italian but 'e did n't speak like they do . |
| 2 | I said I wanted him to go to an outside hospital , so they took him . |
| 3 | She gestured for him to go with an indifferent wave of her hand . |
| 4 | Colberg galled him most — the officer 's gentlemanly aplomb helping him to swim like an eel under and between the weapons of a thousand angry people . |
| 5 | How dear Maisie , or Natalia , and certainly Emma , would laugh to see him enslaved by an ankle after their more generous gifts of person yet enslaved he was . |
| 6 | She had had him pegged as an emotional lightweight , probably good at his job in a technical sense but untroubled by messy feelings . |
| 7 | Walking with him smacked of an intimacy she wanted to avoid , apart from which the sight of them together would prompt all sorts of speculation among the villagers . |
| 8 | The theatrical man occasionally glanced towards him looking for an opening ; but he did n't let himself be drawn in . |
| 9 | Former Cray Research Inc chairman John Rollwagen has withdrawn his name from further consideration for the number two post at the US Commerce Department after the Securities & Exchange Commission asked him to participate in an insider trading probe centring on sale of shares in Cray Computer Corp ahead of that company 's announcement that it had lost its only Cray 3 order . |
| 10 | Madame had you see known him in his alcoholic days , when indeed such calm must often have been the prelude to him lurching into an argument , or falling heavily from his stool . |
| 11 | In the centre of the road was a six-foot colour portrait of President Assad , an artist 's impression of the Syrian leader in air force uniform that made him look like an elderly Battle of Britain pilot , eyes narrowed against the sun , gaze fixed on the heavens . |
| 12 | Tom , meanwhile , has binned the thigh-slapping choreography that made him look like an excited primate and opted instead for more engaging shapes akin to those thrown by a boxing kangaroo . |
| 13 | There was no call to make him look like an Anglo-Saxon writing in schoolboy French by altering it to sauce de moutarde . |
| 14 | Besides Maxham was n't dressed with a salesman 's mass-produced smartness : he was a wiry little man whose rumpled suit and gold-rimmed glasses made him look like an old-fashioned country doctor . |
| 15 | That made him look like an idiot . |
| 16 | Like when a drunken Richard Burton nodded off in the middle of a question ; the time Warren Beatty kept him waiting for an hour-and-a-half … and the day Robert Raging Bull De Niro looked as if he was about to punch him on the nose . |
| 17 | Naylor Massingham demanded , growing more furious , she realised , the longer she kept him waiting for an answer . |
| 18 | Seeing him lying in an incubator for the first time was a uniquely distressing experience . |
| 19 | Oswald had been brought up as a Christian prince in Celtic lands from the age of 12 , so it was perhaps natural for him to look to an Irish religious foundation for ecclesiastical and spiritual direction , and it may be that these overtures to Iona also reflect a dependence on Dalriadic military support at the time of his accession . |
| 20 | Mr Hull specialised in young contemporary British artists and had no training , experience or knowledge which would have enabled him to conclude from an examination of the pictures whether they were by Munter . |
| 21 | This week we read of him losing to an unranked Swede who virtually apologised after the match , explaining that Borg had been the reason for his getting into tennis in the first place . |
| 22 | He had arranged for him to fly to an Italian song festival which was n't just Italian , it was an international song festival , of the lesser variety , but one which paid money . |
| 23 | She let him tell Gentle that if he ever saw hide or hair of Gentle in the building again he 'd have him arrested as an accomplice to attempted murder . |
| 24 | In this context , Edward s assumption of the title and arms of Ring of France at Ghent in 1340 is of the utmost significance , for it allowed him to pose as an alternative government in France and attract the loyalty of those who for whatever reason were discontented with Valois rule . |
| 25 | The blow came at a meeting on Saturday when members voted not to let him stand as an election candidate — despite a recommendation to accept him by the executive committee . |
| 26 | ‘ We had planned to run a single GM-backed Astra this year for Luis Climent but when Bardolet became available it was decided to provide a second car for him supported by an outside sponsor , ’ explains Meeke . |
| 27 | And yet to the world at large he claimed to have conducted a most detailed investigation into the whole matter , sufficient to enable him to arrive at an informed judgement that British policy remained correct . |
| 28 | For him playing in an All Ireland senior final seemed further away than ever before . |
| 29 | ‘ I was at the first-night party of Come Blow Your Horn , ’ said Braden , ‘ and remember being completely fooled by his American accent in the play , so I was very surprised to hear him talking in an English accent afterwards . ’ |
| 30 | He paused , and all the boiling thoughts inside him strained for an outlet . |