Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [verb] [adv] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each student can make up a package of tests to go for ; he may repeat those that he fails , without the social disaster of being kept down a year ; and he may make up a mix of practical and theoretical according to a plan worked out with his class teacher , and bearing in mind what he aims to do next . |
| 2 | He may receive quite a lot of bids and will usually accept the highest . |
| 3 | He was never any trouble but we used to think perhaps he should go out a bit more , ’ say Brian Gedge . |
| 4 | And so I was extremely surprised when no more than weeks later Émile telephoned Jean-Claude and proposed to him the idea that he should take up an appointment as composer-in-residence at an American university . |
| 5 | McHale has been told that he must put together a side capable of reaching at least the play-offs next season . |
| 6 | You can then complete it and then he will make an appointment with you to come to your house and he 'll spend quite a lot of time they really do ascertaining your personal circumstances . |
| 7 | so erm , yesterday he had dinner round Joyce 's , he said he 'll come round a bit early and |
| 8 | He might pick up a truth or two perhaps from servants or villagers of the Old Baron 's generation . ’ |
| 9 | He could build up a knowledge of who he was , piece by piece . |
| 10 | Square on his feet , Jos looked as though he could hold off a steamroller . |
| 11 | He still feels he could eke out a result without him . |
| 12 | Call J. J. Gerrard direct and see if he could set up a spot on Briant for tonight 's edition ? |
| 13 | He used to say he could drink quite a bit because he had very low blood pressure . |
| 14 | Maybe he could settle down a bit now , quit high school , travel — and write . |
| 15 | The Doctor followed the narrow road down through a small valley , before climbing back up towards a bare hilltop where he could make out a number of tiny wooden crosses , like a forest of lifeless bonsai trees . |
| 16 | But as his eyes grew accustomed to it he could make out a hand protruding from the open lounge doorway . |
| 17 | In recent years we met less often and yet he could conjure up an incident which made us both feel it had all happened a few days ago . |
| 18 | Brearley did his best , but four were still needed off the last ball and he could manage only a single . |
| 19 | Though he could pick up a bit on the stable management , if he 'd a mind . |
| 20 | He could remember when a barrow , or a donkey and cart , would have been the mark of riches in the Alley and not an imported German car . |
| 21 | When he thought back over it , as he lay on the bunk and water drips splattered every eleven seconds between his ankles , he could remember only a film of excitement that had wrapped him . |
| 22 | Jeffrey Archer 's ‘ private office ’ had brought an Amstrad to Brighton ; at the push of a button , he could summon up a blacklist of his very own . |
| 23 | Of course , as archbishop , he could raise quite an army from his estates , and this aspect of a bishop 's or abbot 's power should not be overlooked . |
| 24 | When he had explored the problem , I asked him if he could write down a number in the sequence and say which numbers were squared and added together to make it . |
| 25 | He reported back to Allah that he could find only an idol worshipper . |
| 26 | Any minute and he 'd reach out a hand and grab her . |
| 27 | He said he 'd run over a dog . |
| 28 | And he 'd look up a book . |
| 29 | Then we got Brian back — ’ Brian ! — ‘ because I could n't stand your father worrying that he 'd fall down a rock face . ’ |
| 30 | One day he would open up a book — some new sword-and-sorcery trilogy , probably — and something he would read there would trigger what he knew was locked away in his own brain somewhere . |