Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] he [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throughout most of his working life he had lived above the shop at 32 Ludgate Hill , although latterly he occupied a house nearby in the Crescent , New Bridge Street , Blackfriars . |
| 2 | Quiss was led by the dwarfish scullions , through the banked ranges past gleaming tubs , boiling vats , open fires and grills past rows of massive , wing-nutted pressure cookers guarded by blast screens , under huge n-shaped pipes , bubbling and gurgling and leaking steam , and over the dainty , counter-sunk tracks of a narrow-gauge railway until eventually he saw a wall ahead , and was led up a rickety wooden staircase to a narrow gantry then stopped at a small wooden door set into the wall . |
| 3 | We have no idea what rituals Carnelian may have used , if indeed he digested a meal of immaterium . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I see a wistfulness in him , and I think it 's because subconsciously he wants a son to be a friend to him , to carry on his name and help him in his work . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ Sam had a lot of input , especially after the first record , because then he had a direction . |
| 6 | While there he begged a look around a semi-derelict Dakota and realised he was hooked on propliners ! |
| 7 | Yeah , well , hm , do n't think she 's up too much , so , got Tommy Steele in it so she might as well he looks a bit younger . |
| 8 | In sickness and old age , as well as when he had a number of young children , poor relief was the accepted , inevitable and unresented lot of the labouring man . |