Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] [prep] an [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the week she discovered he worked for an average of 1 minute at a time . |
| 2 | [ reading ] " I always thought my young master a fine gentleman as everybody says he is , but he gave these good things to us with such a graciousness that I thought he looked like an angel . " |
| 3 | Robert half-expected the whole cycle to start again , so long had he waited for an answer to this question . |
| 4 | Nowhere in Eliot 's anthropological reading had he come across an example of a student of primitive civilization who had himself turned cannibal . |
| 5 | Siteke Ubial Susey is recovering rapidly from the bullet wound he received during an attack outside his house in Kinshasa in July ( see Action number 162 , page 1 ) . |
| 6 | In need of money , he agreed to take on work as an artist 's model when Ricky Stride said he knew of an artist who would employ him , for Minton had seen photographs of Bowler and had remarked what a good model he would make . |