Example sentences of "[noun prp] he [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new generation grew up on TV ( literally in Howard 's case — before Richie Cunningham he played a kid on the Fifties TV show Leave It To Beaver ) . |
| 2 | On Tuesday he had a temper tantrum on the school bus and then kicked the school secretary . |
| 3 | Then when we moved to Brisbane he bought a hardware shop . ’ |
| 4 | As soon as Tamas , an ethnic Hungarian recruit in the Yugoslav National Army ( JNA ) , stepped into Hungary he became a deserter . |
| 5 | Amis 's third novel is called I Like It Here ( 1958 ) , and when its hero stands reverently by the grave of Henry Fielding in Lisbon he acknowledges a debt at once literary and moral . |
| 6 | About 1820 , possibly due to the persuasion and influence of William Gilkison , Galt became the London agent for people in Upper Canada who were trying to obtain compensation from the British Government for losses they had sustained in the 1812/13 war with the U.S.A. He submitted a plan to the Government which led to the creation of the Canada Company , and , as its first Secretary , he was sent to Canada to acquire land . |
| 7 | But now , at last , in Lucy he had a person ideally suited to his purposes … a person who was subject to a very powerful propensity . |
| 8 | In Marseilles he visited a quayside booth advertising ‘ sheep-women ’ , who ran around while sailors tugged at their fleeces to see if they were real . |
| 9 | He seems to have come across the article in the early weeks of 1953 , since in February he threatened a libel action if copies of the offending issue were not immediately destroyed . |
| 10 | In St Giles he visits a room , 22 feet by 16 feet , which houses 40 to 60 people , not to mention cats and dogs . |
| 11 | In December he became a cardinal ; and the following February he followed his old master de Gasparri as Secretary of State . |
| 12 | A few months after he return from England he bought a flight ticket to Montevideo in Uruguay . |
| 13 | In January he escaped a fire which engulfed the Cheshire Home where he was staying in Greatham , Hants . |
| 14 | I know I have to pluck up my courage and tell him that when we made love in Sintra he sired a son . |
| 15 | Before leaving Ireland he became a member of the revolutionary Irish Republican Brotherhood ( IRB ) . |
| 16 | In the Midlands he took a tram in Birmingham : These were years then of a heightened dissatisfaction with our towns and cities , and every-day lives and attitudes of the British people ; the social history of the 1930s is one of bitter years ( Branson and Heinemann , 1971 ) . |
| 17 | The 22-year-old Cockney is so lonely in the Midlands he makes a 300mile round-trip to his mum 's house , a bus ride from Upton Park , immediately after Forest home games . |
| 18 | On 12 November he made a fourteen-mile flight from the Physic Garden in a balloon filled with hydrogen , which was witnessed by most of the population of Oxford . |
| 19 | At all events , it was through this channel that in early November he engineered a meeting with Wagner . |
| 20 | In November he called a press conference to deny that he was a member of the CPNI . |
| 21 | Without resuming residence in Cambridge he took a BA ( ordinary ) in 1906 , obtaining a third class . |
| 22 | At Cambridge he acquired a reputation as a poet and became a friend of John Bulkeley , whose epic The Last Day ( 1717 , revised 1719 ) he edited . |
| 23 | For some years before his move to Cambridge he chaired a seminar at University College London , which discussed the literary implications of structuralism , semiotics , and emergent poststructuralism . |
| 24 | Whilst he remained at Allen Street he had a bedroom in the basement , Minton occupying the middle floors and the flat at the top of the house being let to Paul Danquah , the son of a Gold Coast politician who had come to England from Ghana to study law and had had an affair with a Lyons Corner House waitress , Paul 's mother . |
| 25 | A mark of how things had changed was that there was now a hospital to which he could be admitted : there in the University College Hospital in Gower Street he made a will on 7 October witnessed by his old friend Edward Humberstone . |
| 26 | Tommy tells Glynn he needs a gun . |
| 27 | And then this Mr he had a grocery shop in Holyhead . |
| 28 | Mr he had a lot to do with this and the Royal Artillery Club here had and er I thought it were a nice gesture . |
| 29 | But before the Rover he had a Consul . |
| 30 | Here 's Jochim He needs a bit of help here Cooper breathing down his neck . |