Example sentences of "[noun] he [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His perversity is plain and if the whole world demands he now signs a striker or a central defender to save his team from relegation , he will not . |
| 2 | As he needed a fairly high percentage of oxygen he soon had a head box too — a clear perspex box placed over his head to concentrate the oxygen . |
| 3 | After a moment he unobtrusively laid a hand on her knee and said : |
| 4 | The Thomas Harris referred to was closely associated with the composer , and his signature may be seen as witness to Handel 's will and to its first three codicils ; in the fourth and last codicil he actually becomes a beneficiary . |
| 5 | When he heard about Marie 's accident he just made a joke . |
| 6 | In doing that every day for fifty one years he actually wore a trench in the solid concrete floor . |
| 7 | As there was little justification for the lengths to which these itinerant justices went , when a vigorous protest was made to the king he promptly issued a writ ordering them to refrain from hearing testamentary , matrimonial and moral causes ; these matters were confirmed to fall exclusively within the competence of the church courts . |
| 8 | According to legend he once ate a plate of raw Troll meat which is regenerating within him all the time . |
| 9 | Somehow , Reg Pybus , who is such a square he even has a mono Walkman , refused to drink with the match only hours away , and so managed to get the team into their kit and out on to the pitch . |
| 10 | Brinson had by this stage , therefore , acquired a reputation of not being committed to any one institution , and enquiries pointed to him as a neutral Chairman of the new panel , which he was asked to chair , and by virtue of his chairmanship he also became a member of the Creative and Performing Arts Panel , and then Board . |
| 11 | From salmon sperm he also isolated a protein , named protamine , and observed that nuclein was closely associated with proteins if it was not actually a protein itself . |
| 12 | Mr Fraser was , as usual , dark-suited , but as a concession to the occasion he also sported a rose in his lapel . |
| 13 | On one occasion he ostentatiously refused a challenge from an infuriated opponent in a lawsuit , preferring to endure public humiliation rather than call out his tormentor ( though he did complain to the Commons of the breach of privilege ) , and earned the public thanks of the Society for setting such a ‘ noble and Christian ’ example . |
| 14 | It became clear that travelling was important to Morris and so much an inspiration that if he ever felt bored at home or lacking in inspiration he just packed a suitcase and got on the nearest train to visit someone . |
| 15 | It became clear that travelling was important to Morris and so much an inspiration that if he ever felt bored at home or lacking in inspiration he just packed a suitcase and got on the nearest train to visit someone . |
| 16 | Despite everything he had drunk already that night he badly wanted a brandy — and a large one at that . |
| 17 | In his choice of names he occasionally showed a touch of irony such as placing the crater named Nicholas Copernicus ( and his disputed planetary system with the Sun at the centre ) in the Ocean of Storms . |
| 18 | When Timothy Amsterdam returned from Europe he soon found a way of meeting Topaz on the Moor . |
| 19 | He had his own rooms in a separate part of the quinta , where he entertained his friends until late at night ; at meals he sometimes made a show of conversation with her , but otherwise they were as strangers . |
| 20 | By the end of 1908 Picasso owned at least five tribal objects and he went on to amass a large collection , much of it of very doubtful quality , although after the war when his own work was commanding large prices he occasionally exchanged a painting for a choice piece . |
| 21 | No we did n't have a row he just went a sleep me Aar , me and Aaron had enough , we went for a walk down the lake |
| 22 | Of course he never made a name for himself , like Gifford Tate , though Tate himself reckoned uncle was the better painter . |
| 23 | He also built several handsome examples in masonry ; and , most important , at the Ouseburn and Willington Dene bridges ( 1836–9 , demolished ) on the Newcastle and North Shields Railway and in a number of subsequent examples he successfully employed a system of laminated timber arches , which , for a short time , was widely imitated in railway-bridge construction . |
| 24 | In his autobiography he dismissed Gerry Daly as a player ‘ who lacked grey matter ’ and during his days as manager of Derby County he once told a player ‘ You 're very deceptive son — you 're even slower than you look . ’ |
| 25 | Chuck noticed that instead of drinking the usual cold tea like the others he surreptitiously raised a hip flask to his lips a couple of times when he thought he was unobserved . |
| 26 | He drastically lowered the price demanded from Turkey for an end to the War of 1806–12 , and having deprived Sweden of Finland he hastily concluded a treaty with her in 1812 . |
| 27 | In boxes which contained such papers he always left a note saying , ‘ These would burn nicely . ’ |
| 28 | Who was described thus : ‘ About 5ft 8in or 9in , blonde with a light , thin moustache , walks with a slight stoop , can not speak any Dutch , during long conversations he occasionally makes a rattling noise in his throat ’ ? |
| 29 | At one time he also had a nanny , who came from the German-speaking part of Switzerland . |
| 30 | He 's got a little bit of a split lip cos every time he either smiles a lot or bangs it slightly it just opens up . |