Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] [conj] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | But Preston found he was scanning the crowd at about the right height for an eight-year-old child , and it was only after a while that he realised he was looking for Uncle Titch . |
| 2 | Endill 's hand felt sore after a while and he wanted to ask why he would need words like ‘ pumpernickle ’ and ‘ ourang-outang ’ but thought on his first day too many questions might lead to trouble . |
| 3 | The things she had heard Jack say after a favourite that he had carefully arranged to get well stuffed , as he put it , promptly went and won . |
| 4 | It 's much more clever to play hard to get , because a man does n't run after a bus once he 's caught it . ’ |
| 5 | Top star Scaggs has been playing a Lowden since last year , when it was introduced to him after a concert and he was so taken by it , that he has now persuaded fellow stars Glenn Campbell and Charlie Daniels to buy them as well . |
| 6 | ‘ I got to know after a time that he ad-libbed because he got bored with his lines . |
| 7 | She would make the poet 's lunch , starting with the radio playing but switching it off after a time because he believed that people should be able to do without background noise . |
| 8 | At first Bowden was unwilling to go to London , but he changed his mind after an assurance that he would be free to return to Devon to attend to his business affairs when necessary . |
| 9 | A 16-year-old youth is in hospital with serious head injuries after an accident as he was on his way to school . |
| 10 | In another it was said that the legitimate expectation of a prisoner that he would be allowed maximum parole if no disciplinary award of forfeiture of remission of sentence had been made against him , gave him sufficient interest to challenge the award . |
| 11 | Pip may have the wealth and social standing of a gentleman though he is a false one whereas Joe lacks both of these though it is he , along with Herbert that I would call the true gentleman of this book . |
| 12 | Until she could prove without the shadow of a doubt that he was n't in league with Harry Martin then she could n't risk doing that , no matter how she might long to . |
| 13 | ‘ I can say without a shadow of a doubt that he was one of the most popular people in the club , very straight and down the middle . ’ |
| 14 | John Coffin let this scene run through in his mind like a bit of a film while he walked beside Gabriel . |
| 15 | Susan could n't think of a film where he had made it alive to the end credits . |
| 16 | A councillor has no right to a roving commission to go and examine books or documents of a council because he is a councillor . |
| 17 | The fee was 25,000 — and Collins ignored the advice of a friend when he signed . |
| 18 | The three reporters were getting out of a taxi and he raised a hand to them also . |
| 19 | She asked for red wine and when he brought it she raised the glass and tried to think of something original and witty by way of a toast but he forestalled her by saying , ‘ Cheers , ’ and she could think of no other response . |
| 20 | Be a bit of a bastard if he pulls back . |
| 21 | The Primo Levi who is read by Fernanda Eberstadt is a man who is unable to write about Jews — though he does in fact write about them with great sympathy , believers and unbelievers alike — and who has no feeling for people whose background and abilities are different from his own , though the joy of Levi 's work , for other readers , is very often that he has such feelings , that he knows himself to be , while also knowing himself not to be , an ordinary man , a worker , a man who worked as an industrial chemist and who was no less of a worker when he wrote books . |
| 22 | She realized who it was a fraction of a second before he spoke again . |
| 23 | But sometimes the expenditure will result in the plaintiff acquiring an asset of a type that he would have required even if he had not been disabled , although he would not have required one with the special attributes of the asset in question . |
| 24 | He dressed from the Pinner charity shops , and was widely regarded as a gentleman , who wittered on rather too much about himself and could be a bit of a nuisance when he was drunk . |
| 25 | Counsel will use deferential language in court , particularly in respect of a decision that he submits was mistaken ; the worse the error , the deeper will be the respect that he expresses for the judges he is criticising . |
| 26 | This interpretation was kind to Edward , because it was more normal even then to demand of a king that he produce an heir , and Edward 's childlessness unloosed on his luckless kingdom the horrors of 1066 . |
| 27 | He worked on the buses when he arrived , showed me a canopy in front of a hotel that he 'd brought down on his first solo drive . |
| 28 | His secretary had been out to lunch , and he had been going through the files stored on the disk she was currently using , looking for a copy of a contract that he urgently needed to check . |
| 29 | His point of view is that of a beginner and he makes the pitfalls and their solutions quite clear with respect to this popular programming language . |
| 30 | He could hear the sound of a wireless so he knew someone must be in . |