Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] a [noun] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps as curios , perhaps as a talisman he could use in some conspiracy against the King . |
| 2 | But erm you see , they suggested going down for a meeting he 's up to his eyes in it ! |
| 3 | He will not feel able to leave , and so for a time he will strive to manage alone . |
| 4 | Yeah , and if goes in for a pint he gives you a packet now . |
| 5 | ‘ Court proceedings could be long and drawn out , and how do you prove when a player went in for a tackle he did it with intent to harm his opponent ? |
| 6 | So after a week he takes away the bandage , removes the bit of radium , sure enough there 's a bright red radiation burn on his forearm but apart from that he feels fine , he does n't feel ill , he obviously has n't died , er so he said well I 'll leave that for a few weeks and monitor my , my health and see if there 's any long term affects from this exposure to , to radiation . |
| 7 | ‘ Oh , get up , ’ said Angalo , embarrassed at the Abbot acting like that in front of someone who , however much of a friend he was , had n't been born a Store nome . |
| 8 | He was strong certainly and brave but armed only with a staff he could hardly be a match for five armed men . |
| 9 | Poacher-turned-gamekeeper — a headhunter going back to industry , especially via an assignment he or she is handling — is rarer . |
| 10 | A portrait drawn by the young Adolph Hitler when he was aged 25 , together with an easel he used , on sale at a Gloucester auction . |
| 11 | And he , a huge crate over newspapers , hundred newspapers , to , when he first , so within a year he never touched it , so gradually I took one more and more . |
| 12 | Sitting down opposite without a word he picked up the glass and emptied the contents down his throat . |
| 13 | Their horses were saddled and waiting , their farewells to the prior and brothers already made , and Hugh just reaching for his bridle , when Nicol came trudging sturdily in at the gatehouse , soiled and bruised and hoisting himself along on a staff he had cut for himself in the forest . |
| 14 | George watched the people rushing about their business and just for a second he wondered what he was doing here . |
| 15 | Just for a moment he met her eyes , his own very dark and filled with something that made her heart start to beat rapidly , high in her throat , yet nothing could have prepared her for the shock of what he said . |
| 16 | Just for a moment he looked as shaken as if her innocent words had been a knife thrust . |
| 17 | Just for a moment he looked shaken , then he said , ‘ When you came before — ’ |
| 18 | Just as a kid he would lift me up on the m up on the er counter , you know and me I was born in and then we shifted to the bottom , you know that white house , I think it 's all offices now , in the the erm big gates of the cathedral . |
| 19 | As a palaeographer he enjoyed reproducing ancient scripts using implements of his own devising , just as an archaeologist he sought a deeper insight into ornaments by drawing them or even carving them with his own hands . |
| 20 | Sheldon himself never lied to his friends about the mummy and we have to be grateful to Faujas Saint-Fond for the following account written shortly after a visit he had made on Sheldon : ‘ It is [ said Sheldon ] a mistress whom I tenderly loved . |
| 21 | Paul folded the letter away in a box he had . |
| 22 | Thus in a self-contract he may make a contract such as ‘ if at the end of the week I have gone without a drink , or lost x lbs in weight , I can buy myself … ’ . |
| 23 | McPhee ( 48 ) told the trial that he had given the dog away to a man he knew vaguely outside the track as Shiloh was no use to him . |
| 24 | The rebellion was over at a cost he claimed to be more than £4,000 in fines and legal fees . |
| 25 | And then he was partly taken over by a piece he neither intended nor wanted to write and which preoccupied him obsessively , the dramatisation of the dispute , in the Yellow House in Arles , between Paul Gauguin and Vincent Van Gogh . |
| 26 | Moreover for a year he shared a stage with one of the greatest and the best-loved English stage actors of the century . |
| 27 | On his way home after a wedding he found himself in a field with an angry bull . |
| 28 | The maimed Sylvie of the post-war years , receding ever further into a life he could n't penetrate . |
| 29 | Sure I have to , Nellie , for if I did n't give it a redd up at least once in a while he 'd have the place like a right midden . ’ |
| 30 | Once in a while he lets his feet and everything else get ahead of him . |