Example sentences of "[vb past] he [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her friend came in and said ‘ Reach for the sky ’ and pretended he had a gun and she played along with him right up to the time they left together . |
| 2 | They did a DNA-fingerprint test and found he had a bus-load of people in him , linked it to some guy who was in the toilets under Centre Point the day before hiring rent boys but he did n't want the full business just wanted them to wank into this bottle thank you for your contribution young man every little bit helps going to a good home thank you mind how you go … |
| 3 | When the father turned 65 he gave up work , and ‘ at last he found he had a son , as later on in his old age I helped him and Mother all I could . |
| 4 | Later , he found he shared an interest |
| 5 | For a time he believed he had a vocation to be a priest himself but he reverted to a previous plan to save sufficient money to go to university . |
| 6 | I you may memory , you added he had a hand gun that 's what she told you ? |
| 7 | " When the war came he had a fleet of eleven ships , most of them modern carriers of eight hundred to one thousand tons . |
| 8 | While she ate he sipped a Miller Lite , watched her devour the meal as her appetite returned . |
| 9 | As he turned he caught a glimpse of something go past the open door , he dashed outside in time to see the figure of the old tramp going towards the slope as if to climb up and away . |
| 10 | The expectations on him to perform as a wit at the Painters ' Table further drained his energy and if feeling jaded or bored he drank a lot . |
| 11 | He took a physical battering , particularly from the West Indian fast bowlers , and because he was convinced that he threw he had a phobia about Charlie Griffith . |
| 12 | In all three raids he claimed he had a gun and at one building society he told staff he was armed with a hand grenade . |
| 13 | A BRIDE-TO-BE was murdered in a frenzied knife attack by a man who claimed he had an impulse to kill . |
| 14 | The Texas-born star , who looked more like a bank clerk than a rocker , defied all the critics who claimed he lacked an image . |
| 15 | He reckoned he 'd a right to nice things the same as this bad company he 'd got in with . |
| 16 | By the way he was wriggling on the seat , she guessed he had an erection . |
| 17 | With his hands deep inside the penultimate trap , his body stiffened He felt a surge of excitement as something moved between his hands . |
| 18 | When he finished he asked a colleague what he thought of it . |
| 19 | When Miss Harding decided to end the 18 month relationship Assin wrote her letters and poems and when these failed the prosecution alleged he made a phone call and threatened to kill her . |
| 20 | In the silence that followed he heard an owl hoot , and then nothing , nothing except the harsh sound of someone sobbing . |
| 21 | Harker punched and kicked the girl and when she escaped he smashed a window , went outside and began to smash the windows of her brother 's car . |
| 22 | She discovered he had a Plan . |
| 23 | Southwark Crown Court heard he had a string of convictions involving animal rights activities stretching back nine years . |
| 24 | J. decided he wanted a photograph of me , and although I did tease him a bit about this — what did he want a photograph of me for when I was there in front of him most of the time ? — at his insistence I finally went and had it done . |
| 25 | Milcolm McIllvoil being called compared and confessed he practised a charm with a string and some words he spoke within the compass of the string for the rickets possession and any other sudden distemper which he did practice by putting a lint thread to his breath and repeating the following words within the compass of it . |
| 26 | Milcolm McIllvoil being called compared and confessed he practised a charm with a string and some words he spoke within the compass of the string for the rickets possession and any other sudden distemper which he did practice by putting a lint thread to his breath and repeating the following words within the compass of it . |
| 27 | Compared Angus Brown in Scarbus and confessed he practiced a charme by uttering some words with a string he held to his mouth which string was to be bound about the hand of the sick person . |
| 28 | Compared Angus Brown in Scarbus and confessed he practiced a charme by uttering some words with a string he held to his mouth which string was to be bound about the hand of the sick person . |
| 29 | He was the only man in the class , which meant he got a lot of attention . |
| 30 | But his finger never pulled the trigger for he , too , felt an explosion in his chest and , as if going into a slow dive , he dropped to the earth , the gun still gripped in his hand , and as he died he heard a voice yelling , ‘ Christ ! |