Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Asked on one occasion if he would define by what methods he judged a candidate , he replied that it was ‘ difficult to say . |
| 2 | For six-to eight-year-olds he suggests a range of one to ten tokens with larger rewards for big chores or achievements . |
| 3 | Among the press of cars he saw a taxicab painted like a page from a newspaper and another advertising a brand of beer . |
| 4 | So in other words he makes a joke about his if they all looked like me , would n't that be awful . |
| 5 | He was soon up to his old tricks and with a view to recouping his losses he chartered a yacht called Filden I from its unsuspecting and perfectly respectable owner . |
| 6 | Whether he did this is questionable , as in the following months he made a kitchen in the east end of the greenhouse . |
| 7 | Within months he found a patron in Governor Lachlan Macquarie [ q.v. ] of New South Wales , who had ambitious plans for public works in the colony , and in 1816 he was appointed government architect , receiving his emancipation in the following year . |
| 8 | At the foot of one of the left-hand columns he read a headline . |
| 9 | From one of the voluminous pockets he produced a bottle of Scotch and put it down on the table . |
| 10 | A caricaturist look at a face and extracts the significant features so that with a few lines he creates a likeness . |
| 11 | Each night at intervals he shouted a warning that anyone who approached would be shot . |
| 12 | In a series of striking phrases he described a theory of emotional development which highlights the role of the ‘ ordinary devoted mother ’ in providing a facilitating environment as the basis for growth and development and for later emotional stability . |
| 13 | Over several decades he brought a level of energy , commitment and enthusiasm to athletics which helped transform the sport into its modern form . |
| 14 | For the next two decades he made a sort of living finding bits and pieces of editing and translation work . |
| 15 | But no amount of camp humour could banish the bitter awareness that every time he gave way to his sexual needs he became a criminal . |
| 16 | When he first started selling peg trousers he developed a stance to show them off He 'd bend his legs at the knee and stand half turned . |
| 17 | He 's only a so-so golfer , but today of all days he gets a hole in one ! |
| 18 | These days he liked a woman who knew how to do it . |
| 19 | As Bryan says , his main guitar is a Strat , although in the early days he used a Les Paul … |
| 20 | When a noble assumes his title and feudal responsibilities he becomes a member of one of the select brotherhoods of Knightly Orders . |
| 21 | According to bogus sexologist Dr John R Brinkley , goat glands held the secret to combating male impotence and over a period of twenty years he amassed a fortune of more than $12 million administering them to 16,000 men worried about their sexual inadequacies . |
| 22 | It did n't last ; his alienation from England seems to have coincided with an alienation from Dorothy , for within five years he had a child by Olga Rudge . |
| 23 | In his later years he became a student of Egyptology , and was also a connoisseur who amassed a fine collection of medieval manuscripts and monastic seals . |
| 24 | In recent years he played a number of Shakespearean roles on stage , having earned enough from comedy to become a serious actor . |
| 25 | It has been estimated that in 16 years he acquired a fortune of £40,000 , despite apparently losing a lot of money in a project for the commercial manufacture of seated cast-iron horseshoes . |
| 26 | For the next thirty-five years he published a spate of pamphlets and books on the subjects about which he felt strongly and the authors whom he admired deeply or disagreed with emphatically . |
| 27 | After five years he held a Council first at Pavia then at Siena , but it was so poorly attended it has not been counted as ecumenical . |
| 28 | For the next twenty-five years he held a series of appointments as minister : St Thomas 's Square , Hackney ( 1880–5 ) ; Cheetham Hill Congregational church , Manchester ( 1885–8 ) ; Clarendon Park , Leicester ( 1888–94 ) ; and Emmanuel church , Cambridge ( 1894–1901 ) . |
| 29 | Over the years he visited a number of Buddhist centres around the country and he was about 25 when he made the decision to teach the faith through the then newly-acquired Pocklington centre , a grand Georgian house about 15 miles south of York . |
| 30 | ‘ There was a silly damned bird called the phoenix back before Christ : every few hundred years he built a pyre and burned himself up . |