Example sentences of "[adj] he [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tom was clean and dry during the day shortly after his second birthday , but at over 3½ years old he still needs a nappy at night . |
| 2 | No no it 's , it 's very good he actually had a go and the rest of you were sitting there dumbfounded by the question . |
| 3 | In late 1909 he also published a pamphlet , The One Life . |
| 4 | For in 1918 he just missed a scholarship to Winchester College ; and in those days the scholarship at Winchester was regarded as the crown for the cleverest boys in England . |
| 5 | He also experimented with lighter-than-air flight : he wrote three papers on airships in the Philosophical Magazine ( February 1816–July 1817 ) of Alexander Tilloch [ q.v. ] , and in 1820 he successfully flew a model airship at Brompton . |
| 6 | On August 2nd he needlessly started a war . |
| 7 | ‘ I would put Schmeichel in that group and at 27 he still has a lot of time to improve . ’ |
| 8 | In 1961 he finally pulled a deal together with the Ford Motor Co and AC Cars Ltd , and early in 1962 the Cobra was born . |
| 9 | It had suddenly occurred to her that he probably had a family , a wife . |
| 10 | Ackroyd put the signals to red , rang the station down the line to tell them that he had a problem and then rang the next station above to alert them that he still had a train in his section . |
| 11 | WHEN Laszlo Polgar , a Hungarian vocational school teacher , married his Ukrainian wife , Klara , in 1965 he carefully studied a number of books on ‘ fathering ’ . |
| 12 | So far from allowing that number might increase , in 1769 he even favoured a reduction of the number of the enfranchised . |
| 13 | Besides , if Derek continues to drink , at best he probably has a year left to live and at worst a matter of months . ’ |
| 14 | At best he maybe had a letter from the client , that letter had gained copious notes as it filtered its way through the hierarchy , some helpful , some intelligible , unintelligible should I , should I say , and some contradictory . |
| 15 | Apart from his Midlands Grand National triumph in 1990 he also gained a verdict over Norton 's Coin at Cheltenham — two months before that horse 's Gold Cup success — and would have been an easy winner of the Greenall Whitley Chase but for falling when clear at the last fence . |