Example sentences of "[adv] he [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps he still has a chance , ’ said a western diplomat in Pakistan , ‘ but it looks as though events have overtaken him . |
| 2 | Perhaps he only wanted a cigarette , or a couple of bob for the meter . |
| 3 | So he wisely avoided a clash of horns in front of the herd . |
| 4 | And when my grandfather came in he always had a pocketful of these tips , and he would give us all some sixpences and some threepennies . ’ |
| 5 | There 's a reason the little corner shops do that you see , that corner shop especially he always has a blackboard outside |
| 6 | He had his own clergy attached to his cathedral , and gradually he eventually acquired a parish clergy over whom he could sometimes exercise control . |
| 7 | Even now he still looks a beast of a man . ’ |
| 8 | Now he usually got a car for sale . |
| 9 | When the arrangement was revealed two weeks ago he immediately became a member of staff and said the advantage had amounted to only £810 a year . |
| 10 | ‘ Has n't he already got a clock radio ? |
| 11 | ‘ Why does n't he just wear a cocktail dress ? ’ asks Richard . |
| 12 | Could n't he just have a tractor ? ’ |
| 13 | So why could n't he just have a photograph of his sales team portraying the kind of team spirit that runs throughout the branch ? |
| 14 | ‘ But could n't he even raise a finger so we 'd know he can understand us ? ’ |
| 15 | From 6pm to 7pm he usually has a meeting with the group chief executive , and then informal meetings with executives who are still around . |
| 16 | Then he carefully moves a pawn one little square and leans back like he 's changed the whole pattern of the game . |
| 17 | Then he actually made a paper aeroplane so that she had an example in front of her that she can look at to see what she is aiming for . |
| 18 | But then he never missed a trick . |
| 19 | Here we can see Sheikh Haj Amin al-Husseini shaking hands with the leader of the SS , there he proudly inspects a volunteer Muslim contingent of the Wehrmacht . |
| 20 | There he boldly repeated a story he had heard about Henry 's relations with the sister of Anne Boleyn [ q.v. ] and her mother . |
| 21 | How deep such bonds could go is suggested by a Sussex carter 's grandson who had been ‘ very happy ’ as a child brought up by his grandparents , ‘ much attached ’ to them , and who writes of how he later found a house for his ageing grandmother close to his own and nursed her through her last illness : ‘ no mother could have been more kind . ’ |
| 22 | dare I say it , but did his inability last season to recognize the poor defence we had and his obsession with midfielders imply that maybe he still has a lot to learn ? |
| 23 | By 1752 Standidge was freighting his own ships to Rhode Island and in 1766 , when he also owned a shipyard , he equipped the Berry for a voyage to the Greenland fishery . |
| 24 | When he started ‘ writing in earnest ’ , after the war when he also joined a club for the hard of hearing which had a great effect on his life , he at first concentrated on prose , turning to the medium of poetry about 20 years later . |
| 25 | He was unlucky to have been in the University team only during his last year , when he easily gained a place . |
| 26 | I am sure it will benefit Gareth Simmonds when he eventually becomes a panel referee . |
| 27 | One Sunday , after listening to a sermon in church on the wickedness of Sabbath-breaking , he was playing at tipcat ( a predecessor of cricket ) when he suddenly heard a voice cry , ‘ Wilt thou leave thy sins and go to Heaven , or have thy sins and go to Hell ? ’ |
| 28 | It is sometimes implied that all this changed when that shrewd lawyer , John XXII , became pope , yet he readily promoted a number of Edward 's episcopal candidates ; moreover , from John , no less than from Clement , Edward II received the bounty of papal taxation of the clergy . |
| 29 | On leaving school he entered his father 's cotton mill at Carleton-in-Craven , where he later became a partner ; he retired in 1906 . |
| 30 | The taxi driver was squatting by one of Bonefish 's gateposts where he surreptitiously smoked a cigarette . |