Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a mouthful he seemed to relent . |
| 2 | After a divorce he married in 1934 Margaret Roberts , daughter of Thomas Roberts Murray , mechanical engineer , and divorced wife of Charles Alan Hutton . |
| 3 | After a year he parted from his father and set up his own practice at 24 Hardy Street , in the heart of the Liverpool docklands . |
| 4 | After a while he got to his hands and knees . |
| 5 | After a while he rolled from her and lay there , staring up through layers of darkness at the dim , coiled shape of dragons in the ceiling mosaic , thinking of the boy . |
| 6 | After a while he gains in sexual confidence and tries to spice things up by mock-raping her . |
| 7 | After a while he went to the desk . |
| 8 | After a moment he reached into his jacket and produced a thick envelope . |
| 9 | After a moment he said to Owen : |
| 10 | After a moment he came after her , one arm outstretched in pursuit . |
| 11 | After a moment he exclaimed in satisfaction and swung the car into a narrow lane . |
| 12 | After a time he went to the toilet . |
| 13 | I asked him after a lecture he gave in Cambridge , and he looked at me in a vague way and said yes , he would . |
| 14 | A priest tells the story of a boy he rescued from poverty who grows up to become a revolutionary leader . |
| 15 | Peeling from the back of a line-out he thundered through the Dark Blue ranks . |
| 16 | Like a man stepping out of a dream he woke for a moment . |
| 17 | He was saved from sinking even lower by the balm of a journey he made in an open cart to Zweeloo with his landlord , who had to go to the market in Assen . |
| 18 | Most of them then switched their loyalty to the country 's spiritual leader , Ayatollah Ali Khamenei , who was determined not to allow the Islamic revolution to fall into the hands of a man he saw as an opportunist reformer . |
| 19 | After walking for approximately a quarter of a mile he stopped outside a small detached cottage on his left . |
| 20 | He was one of the earliest arrivals at Augusta , playing his first practice round on Saturday , which was a direct contradiction of a statement he made to the Augusta Chronical when he said he tried to treat the Masters like ‘ any other tournament ’ . |
| 21 | With the aid of a scholarship he studied at the University of Aberdeen , where he graduated MA before he was twenty years old . |
| 22 | I also have a copy of a speech he made in Geneva to the United Nations , in which he referred to the fatwa as outrageous , and an abuse of the most fundamental human rights — really very strong language for the British Government ! ’ |
| 23 | Mr Larkin is haunted by memories of a visit he made to the secluded woods at along with Marie Pettitt , Gary 's mother . |
| 24 | Judging from the contents of a letter he wrote to a colleague , Descartes was well aware of the moral and practical implications of his theory . |
| 25 | Dalrymple 's evil vindictiveness is shown by the wording of a letter he wrote to the leader of the men who were to carry out his plans — ‘ It is a work of charity to be exact in rooting out that damned sept ( clan ) , the worst in all the highlands … . |
| 26 | Thongsouk Saysangkhi : former Deputy Minister of Science and Technology , he was arrested on 8 October 1990 in the capital , Vientiane , following the circulation of a letter he wrote to the then Prime Minister Kaysone Phomvihan , asking to resign from his government post and from the ruling Lao People 's Revolutionary Part . |
| 27 | A shopkeeper has made a poster out of a letter he received from the Prime Minister 's office expressing optimism about the state of the economy . |
| 28 | A shopkeeper has made a poster out of a letter he received from the Prime Minister 's office expressing optimism about the state of the economy . |
| 29 | and , and they do it about four or five times , you know , the king of Snowdonia , welcome to see and all the bugles going you know all of a sudden he appears in the middle of the picture he says oh I 've come through the back door |
| 30 | I do n't know what sort of a pistol he held to their heads , but I personally was quite happy and had never been looked after so well in my life . |