Example sentences of "he and [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It destroyed him and for a time he was engulfed by a deep chasm of despair , drinking heavily , taking amphetamines and LSD — and he was in his sixteenth year of smoking marijuana . |
| 2 | Whatever the reason , no other reputable yard would touch him and for a while Charles drifted about on the fringe of racing . |
| 3 | The man stopped a foot away from him and for a moment or two William stopped struggling . |
| 4 | She looked at him and for a moment he thought that this time it was going to be easy , this time she would believe him and go to sleep . |
| 5 | However , on Saturday he had one of those games when little went right for him and as a result the pack rarely got up a good head of steam . |
| 6 | For Emerson I972 was a fine year : with a full season in FI behind him and with a winning car , he drove with assurance , confidence and verve , though still finicky if conditions were not favourable to him , as at Monaco in the rain . |
| 7 | Panic seized him and with a sudden curse he turned away from the wicket-gate of Clark 's Wharf and gestured at the others to get away . |
| 8 | Later , I managed to contact him and after a preliminary meeting , which lasted some thirteen hours , he was gracious enough to supply me with large-scale copies of maps of the area for me to be able to check his work — generosity indeed ! |
| 9 | I then started lungeing him and within a few months I rode him out at walk : a very difficult task . |
| 10 | In a tense cup tie a rival fan threw a can at him and in a moment of pure pantomime ‘ Bud ’ picked up the can , motioned a greeting of ‘ cheers ’ to the terracing and drank some of the can 's unknown contents . |
| 11 | The monument to Chaloner Chute , also designed by him and in a seventeenth-century classical style , was eventually erected after his death by his cousin T. L. Chute . |
| 12 | The launcher was only six feet away from him and in a few seconds thousands of people were going to die horribly . |