Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , leaving his sobbing family at home , he dashed to a soccer match , where he gave away a penalty and cheated his team of a victory . |
| 2 | During a lunch break I sat with him in a village pub where he put away a few pints . |
| 3 | Although he played only a minor military role in the war , he was a colonel by 1646 and was present at the capture of Ludlow in May . |
| 4 | When it was Spencer 's turn he found that although he had quite a few hours in his ‘ Fury , the Spit was a harder aeroplane to fly . |
| 5 | It was from these informants that he pieced together a picture of organised crime as being controlled by key personnel in the police force , local government , business and the legal profession . |
| 6 | ‘ And he has so many patients with much worse ailments that he took quite a robust view of my case . ’ |
| 7 | But there can be little doubt that he had two causes in mind , and great probability that he had also a third . |
| 8 | The irrational thought almost occurs that Shakespeare could n't have been that smart if he did n't realise that he had here a performer who can turn sows ' ears into silk purses , and silk purses into live butterflies . |
| 9 | As it was a weekend , all the bigger-wig doctors were not on duty but , knowing of Nigel 's condition and that he had only a short time to live , they brought him through . |
| 10 | This knight was named Oleg Ban , and he was so poor that he had only a horse and two hounds , nine men to fight for him , nine maids , and a wooden fortress ; but he was the bravest knight in the whole land . |
| 11 | Balcon was unique among these émigrés from the Midlands in that he remained only a producer . |
| 12 | In the middle of the Great War , the Emperor Charles told his foreign minister Czernin that he wanted neither a military nor an economic agreement with his ally , Germany , because that might fit the Hohenzollern design to make of Austria a second Bavaria . |
| 13 | I mean it was tough , life was tough for him and I know that he faced quite a lot of comments both of racist and other other things . |
| 14 | It 's not just that he has withdrawn from the business of running a diocese , or that he walks abroad a great deal at night but is scarcely seen during the day , or that he often wo n't accept phone calls . |
| 15 | Any honest assessment of his chances of pulling this off should start from the realisation that he has only a few rusty tools at his disposal . |
| 16 | A finder who sells goods without first disclosing that he has only a finder 's title is in breach of the condition in section 12 . |
| 17 | Works by Hogarth hung in the gallery at Slains : the library contained ‘ a valuable numerous collection ’ , and Boswell renders one of his usual excellent off-the-cuff services to our understanding of eighteenth-century domestic arrangements : ‘ The noble owner has built of brick , along the square on the inside , a gallery , both on the first and second story , the house being no higher ; so that he has always a dry walk , and the rooms , to which formerly there was no approach but through each other , have now all separate entries from the gallery . ’ |
| 18 | He knows , though , that he has still a lot to learn , particularly about the unglamorous side of things . |
| 19 | In fact , both Stirling 's legs were temporarily paralysed and he suffered quite a severe back injury which was to keep him immobilized for the best part of two months . |
| 20 | He listened , too , and for a moment the noises from the next room ceased , and he heard only a great and total silence , a silence that extended beyond the city , beyond the planet , a silence as empty and bleak and beautiful as space , as the universe itself ; the endless harmonious silence of the spheres . |
| 21 | and he had like a shooter thing that would er , erm a bolt or something would shoot the balls out |
| 22 | After a short while he found that the gypsies were taking their horses to him to be shod ; and he had quite a busy time shoeing gypsy horses . |
| 23 | Because at one of our talks er before the financial advisor spoken to a chap that happened to be sitting near him when I moved out of this desk and he got rather a ler lu large investment and yet m and and he was quite happy with his investment yet much to my astonishment he completed this application form for the investment advisor to advise him on his investment . |
| 24 | The smell of incense strengthened and he saw ahead a haze of gold where the gleaming mosaics of the apse stained the air and the great figure of Christ in glory , his wounded hands stretched out , glared down the nave with cavernous eyes . |
| 25 | So we get him back and he gets maybe an extra six months for going over the wall . |
| 26 | Then the front zip of her jeans yielded to his importuning hands and he eased away a little so that his fingers could slide inside , seeking , exploring , sensitising , until shudders shook her from head to foot . |
| 27 | Although he survived the blow to his head , the accident turned out to be the start of a rapid decline and he died just a few months later . |
| 28 | And and he took quite a lot of them but in the time that |
| 29 | And he pushed open a small wooden door . |
| 30 | And he wipes away a tear . |