Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made something of a jovial name for downright failure : a big , heavy man ( probably seventeen stone ) , he barely averaged more than four runs an innings and he took only eight wickets in his long but profoundly uneventful playing career . |
| 2 | Beside a muddy pool in a shadow-dappled patch of jungle where faint feeding tracks had finally petered out , he lowered himself onto a fallen log . |
| 3 | ‘ Why ca n't he treat me like a good-time girl , ’ wailed Babs . |
| 4 | He enveloped her in a large towel and began a vigorous and painful rubbing . |
| 5 | However , he planned you as a unique person for a unique purpose . |
| 6 | He sold himself to a local pig farmer . |
| 7 | Pitching the F1 as a ‘ super-bike ’ , he sold it at a retail price of £13,000 . |
| 8 | An owner now obtained ( in theory at least ) the same price for his land irrespective of whether he sold it to a private individual or to a public authority . |
| 9 | so he sold it in a wrong time he could have , he could have hold on to it another few months and got a lot of money for it |
| 10 | He met her at a literary dinner a couple of weeks later . |
| 11 | Upon arrival , he met us with a hefty stick he had dragged from somewhere , plonked it down , nosed it toward me and waited , tail shifting like a black snake . |
| 12 | He offers himself as a strong figure and also a young one . |
| 13 | It was not a place to which he could take Maureen MacQuillan or any woman , and only partly because he shared it with a fellow MP . |
| 14 | This seems to be true in spite of the fact that Spinoza was very much of a generation which was concerned to dissociate itself from the Greek inheritance , and indeed he represents something of a fresh injection of Jewish moral feeling into the main Christian current of Western thought . |
| 15 | he asked me for a few slices of bread which he broke into pieces and scattered over the roof . |
| 16 | He led her to a tiny table in one corner , and she resolutely ignored the fact that nearly everyone else — the place was surprisingly crowded — wore slinky and fashionable black . |
| 17 | He led her to a shady café , where small tables were set out in the shadow of some tall plane trees , whose leafy patterns fell over the white tables . |
| 18 | He led her to a waiting taxi and , as he held the door for her , for a brief instant their eyes met . |
| 19 | He did n't speak as he led her through a stone-floored hallway to a sweeping staircase . |
| 20 | He led her at a good trot through the country lanes , by Bramfield and Tattle Hill , through Thieves Lane to Hertingfordbury . |
| 21 | He led her into a large room where a floor-to-ceiling window gave out on a garden dominated by a fountain and a single curving oak , its tracery of branches lavish against the steel grey sky . |
| 22 | He led me to a long , low building . |
| 23 | Where was Um Al-Farajh , I asked him , and he led me to a large square of fir trees and pointed to the earth . |
| 24 | He led me to a large , upright scallop of rock . |
| 25 | The rest clambered into their saddles , and followed him unquestioningly as he led them at a canter downslope to where the hills opened out and patches of ground could be seen where the snow was melting . |
| 26 | He led them at a smart pace along the path where the railway had been and though they grumbled about the branches scratching their legs his sister and his brothers followed him . |
| 27 | He led them down a small corridor , paused by a door , took out a huge bunch of keys , slowly , and deliberately , unlocked the door , and then , with a dramatic , indeed melodramatic , flourish , flung it open . |
| 28 | He led them into a small , more comfortable room behind the great hall where a fire burnt in the canopied hearth ; it was cosier and not so forbidding , with its wood-panelled walls and high-backed chairs arranged in a semi-circle around the hearth . |
| 29 | ‘ We are a scientific community , ’ he said as he led them into a dismal cavernous hall , ‘ and also a spiritual one . ’ |
| 30 | And he led them in a weary canter down to the Rorim . |