Example sentences of "he [verb] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It should be noteá though that he crosses one boundary , from graveyard to dream , but not the next ; when he tries to swim the river to Heaven at the end of the poem he is halted and woken before he reaches the water . |
| 2 | She would inevitably interpret it as some kind of macho statement about the fact that even as he entertained one woman in his flat , another was on her way upstairs with … what on her mind ? |
| 3 | Desiderius was well-educated in the law and became treasurer to Chlothar II ; he succeeded one brother , Syagrius , as governor of Marseilles , and subsequently he was elected bishop of Cahors in place of his other brother , Rusticus , who had been murdered . |
| 4 | If the Minister had bothered to listen to the submissions made to him or if he cared one iota for the industry , he would know that the figures come from the farmers . |
| 5 | He passed one fragment to Oak , the elder . |
| 6 | I mean in in the midweek game against us he had very little play and then he produced one ball that got them an equalizer and I suppose that 's what Frank would look for now . |
| 7 | Whatever it was , he appointed one John Leathart , a mining engineer , to conduct a survey of the Coniston Mines and to advise on the true position there . |
| 8 | He recommended one walk to those who would avoid being tired — Borrowdale , Buttermere , Newlands , Rosthwaite , Keswick , a mere 23 miles . |
| 9 | How 's it going ? he asked one day . |
| 10 | ‘ What do you do ? ’ he asked one day when she was n't expecting it . |
| 11 | How 's the shop going ? he asked one week . |
| 12 | ‘ Have you ever been to any of those raves ? ’ he asked one group . |
| 13 | At least he got one thing right |
| 14 | And he got one arm out of his jamas ! |
| 15 | He was only a little 'un , but he got one weight over his head all right . |
| 16 | He flung one leg round the door post , demanded a Las Vegas introduction and swarmed into the room murmuring good evening , stopping when he saw Jay and looking totally bemused . |
| 17 | Er er he tried one time , he 'd got his daddy 's photograph and he was actually trying to draw his father from the photograph |
| 18 | Yellow Wolf told how he found one tipi containing two women shot dead , one still clasping her newborn baby with its head smashed as by a gun breech or boot heel . |
| 19 | The most famous and best loved of all Sam 's wild pets was a swan which he found one day lying prostrate by the side of Hury Reservoir , too weak even to stand . |
| 20 | Most of them opened on to storerooms , or offices , which he was n't interested in , but eventually he found one door that opened into a chemical laboratory whose air was tangy with scents that irritated the nasal and throat passages . |
| 21 | He stroked one finger along her jawline and she suffered exquisite tortures under the false caress . |
| 22 | ’ He moved one arm cautiously . |
| 23 | He moved one hand and tilted her face . |
| 24 | As he spoke , he let one hand rest on the hilt of his sword as though to emphasize subtly the ever-present might of French arms . |
| 25 | He drew one hand to his lips and kissed it , but his fingers left her other hand to trace the wet that trickled over the blue smudges under her eyes . |
| 26 | He has one daughter , married to a well-known Politician — Vivian Carolan , who is Minister of Fine Arts in the present government . |
| 27 | He has one objective : that the delegates get the very best from his personal contribution . |
| 28 | He has one rig in our room , another one in dad 's car and a third in the big truck he drives for the frozen meat company . |
| 29 | Dead metaphors also have a certain syntactic rigidity ; the quality of being ‘ dead ’ is closely tied to a particular syntactic form , and with any modification the metaphor springs to life : compare He has one foot in the grave and One of his feet is in the grave . |
| 30 | He opens the door no wider than an old lady would , and I notice he has one foot firmly behind it just in case . |