Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | For several years he drew a salary as distributor of stamps in Ireland , but it seems unlikely that he was one of the Irish Brookes . |
| 32 | From these memories he developed a theory that there were three main stages in a child 's development . |
| 33 | To support these managers he established a marketing department , improved the financial system and introduced business planning for the first time to AEA . |
| 34 | Was it possible that for the sake of prayer and guidance of souls he had a calling to the unmarried state ? |
| 35 | From the pocket of his overalls he took a photo of Carol . |
| 36 | For the first time in all his journeys he found a room that was completely empty , but he had n't the time to investigate it , or any of the others he entered . |
| 37 | By eschewing such girls he avoided a lot of foreign in-laws and chatter in disparate tongues , and the misunderstandings that are inevitably worsened by not quite speaking the same language . |
| 38 | But then between the fronds he saw a face , the most beautiful face he could have dreamed of or imagined , a still white face , with long gold lashes on pale cheeks , and a perfect pale mouth . |
| 39 | With soil-caked fingers he drew a handkerchief from a pocket and blew his nose . |
| 40 | In music , unlike literature , he was largely self-taught , but during his schooldays he developed a facility both for improvisation on the piano and for attractive small-scale compositions . |
| 41 | And for the more ambitious film projects he developed a coproduction arrangement with David O. Selznick , the producer who had lured Hitchcock to Hollywood . |
| 42 | Without proper maps he followed a route set by compass , boiling up pemmican and glucose for food and sleeping under the stars in a sleeping bag at night . |
| 43 | One day in April 1943 Albert Hoffmann , a chemist who was working at Sandoz on the development of ergot alkaloids , felt unwell and went home early , where for some hours he experienced a variety of disordered visions . |
| 44 | Off the field he has displayed other varied talents he co-wrote a TV series and a novel and his chirpy charm won admirers . |
| 45 | In one of his class exams he set a test in which he had jumbled the sentences in a passage of prose . |
| 46 | Although a man of many and varied accomplishments he remained a countryman at heart , with an abiding love of the Scottish lowlands . |
| 47 | As the Frenchman doubled past behind the prisoners he shouted a greeting . |
| 48 | Sometimes he simply hung over the bank and untied the boat , other times he rattled a stick against the boathouse door and shouted in a gruff , common voice — he was a good mimic — ‘ Who 's there ? |
| 49 | At times he has a lover he can hurt |
| 50 | In his four hands he holds a sceptre , a string of beads , a bow and a book of scripture . |
| 51 | In his hands he holds a snuff box , shaped like a small quiver , and a thin stick . |
| 52 | For walking out and for Sundays he had a cord jacket and cord trousers . |
| 53 | To get the high temperatures he used a kiln like a glass furnace . |
| 54 | A fourth taxi driver told the police he escaped a murder attempt in north Belfast a short time later , claiming he spotted a black Mini car carrying two men who pulled on masks and produced a gun when they approached his car on the Antrim road . |
| 55 | Every few minutes the cock tests the temperature of the mound : if it falls below 33 degrees Celsius he adds more compost , while if it rises above 33 degrees he makes a vent in the mound to cool the eggs . |
| 56 | George Jamison , 45 , has been told by specialists he needs a triple-bypass . |
| 57 | After recovering from his injuries he spent a tour as a Link Trainer Instructor before converting to the Canberra in 1955 . |
| 58 | Two days after the fire in which the Johnsons choked to death from fumes he held a party . |
| 59 | Certainly he was not the first to have been struck by the idea , and in his first book on leys he quotes a reference from 1882 in which G.H. Piper notes an alignment of several sites in Herefordshire . |
| 60 | For both the 1654 and the 1659 Commons he kept a sort of diary . |