Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] a " in BNC.

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1 In 1980 , Allan Wells took six months off work to enable him to train twice a day .
2 Gabriel would miss the wife 's cooking and the little children , who made him feel almost a grown man .
3 He put me down in the Brompton Road — very kind and understanding — saying ‘ If you walk from here , you 'll keep him waiting just a minute like all you ladies do . ’
4 I will let him see therein a new abyss .
5 Just when his eyes were adjusting to the gloom , the novice ahead of him threw open a door , and Gabriel emerged into pale but blinding sunlight flaring in low through the window of the gallery .
6 Flavia went on following her train of thought , ‘ I can not see him doing even a disinterested thing if it went against a rule . ’
7 But I should say very often the old Guv'nor would let him have either a shilling to go down to the pub while we did the job , or else he would provide him with a jug of home-brewed beer and bread and cheese .
8 I ca n't remember him making either a glaring mistake , or a top class save .
9 He put his hands to his throat , anything to ease the pain and help him to get just a little air …
10 Thus a buyer 's legal position is better if he made no examination than if he made merely a superficial one .
11 He made quite a decent job of it too .
12 He made quite a fuss about it , saying it was time she left the nest , stood up to the forceful Elise and lived her own life .
13 Therefore — rightly claiming that his force was as yet incomplete and most of his field guns not brought up — he made only a token attack on the Russian left , while positioning his troops as they detrained and making his own tactical preparations .
14 He made only a brief speech to the meeting , described by Bridgeman to Davidson ( who was in the Argentine ) as ‘ a good opening — plain and dignified — and with fewer mannerisms than have recently been apparent , and no apparent nervousness ’ .
15 He made almost a clean break with the game , except for some local television work .
16 Well he plays quite a bit of guitar .
17 At one point last week , emerging from examining some factory , he passed just a few feet from a group of Fleet Street 's finest .
18 One way and another , it appears that the search for a new chief executive for IBM Corp is not going too well as one after another , the most fancied candidates declare that they are non-runners — so long after their names were first widely canvassed in the press that they leave the strong impression that they have considered or been considered for the job , but after having looked into it , decided that they would n't touch it with a bargepole : latest to declare his belated non-candidacy is former Hewlett-Packard Co chief executive John Young , who says he is ‘ definitely not a candidate ’ — ‘ He 's enjoying retirement , ’ said a Hewlett spokeswoman ; all attention is now focussed on the thought-to-be front runners that have n't ruled themselves out — Paul Stern , recently retired chairman and tough manager of Northern Telecom Ltd , who could be planning to repeat his double act at that company with another former IBMer , Edward Lucente , who has also just resigned from Northern Telecom ; the other two whose odds have shortened are George Fisher , chairman and chief executive of Motorola Inc , Morton Myerson , chairman of Perot Systems Corp , and Louis Gerstner , head of RJR Nabisco Co ; industry sources told Reuter that the name of Michael Armstrong keeps coming up within IBM — but he quit only a year ago , and has just taken the top job at Hughes Aircraft Co .
19 He goes there a lot .
20 Always self-deprecating and modest , he fought bravely a long struggle against cancer , remaining cheerful and full of amusing unrepeatable anecdotes .
21 Huh , he 's a good , good lad , but he 's er he drinks rather a lot and suffers quite a lot from hangovers , he comes in dries up and goes
22 He became eventually a conscientious objector .
23 He became instead a boot and shoe maker .
24 Thereafter he became almost a father to me .
25 Bodley was a corresponding member of the Institut de France ( Académie des Sciences Morales et Politiques ) , and he was praised by Charles Maurras as the Englishman who knew France , so that ‘ he became almost a Frenchman without ceasing to be an Englishman . ’
26 He asked nothing but justice of Heaven , and of man he asked only a fair field ; and his father seeing of how good heart he was , gave him his sword and his blessing .
27 Because at one of our talks er before the financial advisor spoken to a chap that happened to be sitting near him when I moved out of this desk and he got rather a ler lu large investment and yet m and and he was quite happy with his investment yet much to my astonishment he completed this application form for the investment advisor to advise him on his investment .
28 He got quite a hefty government .
29 He got together a serious amount of cash and called a meeting with the skaters to ask them what they wanted ; 3 skaters turned up .
30 Through his own efforts , he got together a group of people interested in the spiritual care of the blind as well as the deaf and formed the Leeds United Institution for the Blind , the Deaf and the Dumb in 1850 although it was not until 1875 that the foundation stone of their first centre was laid .
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