Example sentences of "[adv] he [adv] [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he only wanted a cigarette , or a couple of bob for the meter . |
| 2 | So he wisely avoided a clash of horns in front of the herd . |
| 3 | And when my grandfather came in he always had a pocketful of these tips , and he would give us all some sixpences and some threepennies . ’ |
| 4 | He had his own clergy attached to his cathedral , and gradually he eventually acquired a parish clergy over whom he could sometimes exercise control . |
| 5 | Now he usually got a car for sale . |
| 6 | When the arrangement was revealed two weeks ago he immediately became a member of staff and said the advantage had amounted to only £810 a year . |
| 7 | Then he actually made a paper aeroplane so that she had an example in front of her that she can look at to see what she is aiming for . |
| 8 | But then he never missed a trick . |
| 9 | There he boldly repeated a story he had heard about Henry 's relations with the sister of Anne Boleyn [ q.v. ] and her mother . |
| 10 | How deep such bonds could go is suggested by a Sussex carter 's grandson who had been ‘ very happy ’ as a child brought up by his grandparents , ‘ much attached ’ to them , and who writes of how he later found a house for his ageing grandmother close to his own and nursed her through her last illness : ‘ no mother could have been more kind . ’ |
| 11 | By 1752 Standidge was freighting his own ships to Rhode Island and in 1766 , when he also owned a shipyard , he equipped the Berry for a voyage to the Greenland fishery . |
| 12 | When he started ‘ writing in earnest ’ , after the war when he also joined a club for the hard of hearing which had a great effect on his life , he at first concentrated on prose , turning to the medium of poetry about 20 years later . |
| 13 | He was unlucky to have been in the University team only during his last year , when he easily gained a place . |
| 14 | One Sunday , after listening to a sermon in church on the wickedness of Sabbath-breaking , he was playing at tipcat ( a predecessor of cricket ) when he suddenly heard a voice cry , ‘ Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to Heaven , or have thy sins and go to Hell ? ’ |
| 15 | It is sometimes implied that all this changed when that shrewd lawyer , John XXII , became pope , yet he readily promoted a number of Edward 's episcopal candidates ; moreover , from John , no less than from Clement , Edward II received the bounty of papal taxation of the clergy . |
| 16 | On leaving school he entered his father 's cotton mill at Carleton-in-Craven , where he later became a partner ; he retired in 1906 . |
| 17 | The taxi driver was squatting by one of Bonefish 's gateposts where he surreptitiously smoked a cigarette . |
| 18 | When he was released , he sold up his home and moved to Barcelona , where he now had a job in a printing press . |
| 19 | He was known at the Wayfarers ' Refuge in Cosway Street in St Marylebone , an excellent place , where he usually got a midday meal and medical attention for minor ailments when he needed it . |
| 20 | From the early 1820s onwards he also designed a number of churches in a conventional Gothic style , but in some of his later works , such as his alterations to Broughton Hall , Yorkshire ( 1838–41 ) and Flasby Hall , Yorkshire ( 1840 ) he experimented with the picturesque Italianate manner . |
| 21 | To the observer this decision of 1955 looks as hard or harder ; to agree to accept a post which he expected to hate , and for which he regarded himself as unsuitable , and in which he would have to neglect that scholarship which was essential to his happiness and to his sense of vocation and to the reason why he ever became a bishop at all , if the leaders of the Church declared that this was where he was needed . |
| 22 | He hated other people 's leaving him for bed , and when he saw a hard mood ahead he often took a sleeping pill at supper to stop himself from being clamorous , though at the same time he found his terror about the end of a day daft in a creature who was surely intended by build to signify immortal fun . |