Example sentences of "[adv prt] [conj] he [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , as she climbed in and he slid into the driver 's seat beside her , he turned to look at her . |
| 2 | The lights went down and he sat at the back , trying to gauge the reaction of a packed audience . |
| 3 | The rent on this new place , like the rent on all the places he 'd lived in since he arrived in the city , was paid for by the Social Security . |
| 4 | Celia Hooper 's husband , Denis , had fixed up a little mirror for Peter to examine himself in before he emerged into the church . |
| 5 | Two things made him slow down as he came to the entrance . |
| 6 | Bodie drove quickly to the Stones ' house , slowing down as he came into the street at the far end . |
| 7 | He taps his pencil up and down as he waits for the finance director to finish . |
| 8 | He was breathing quickly , his nostrils pinching in as he thought of the coming confrontation with his wife . |
| 9 | To a casual passenger , glancing in as he lurched down the corridor , they must , thought Dalgliesh , have looked like two penitents in a private confessional absolving each other . |
| 10 | Perhaps I could be Eric 's stunt man , standing in when he turns on the flash dangerous stuff that terrifies the defenders in his wake and makes them have a go like David Burrows did . |
| 11 | But now it was all over and he sat in the big armchair as dawn lightened the front windows and gave thanks , with a cup of coffee , to the Child of Prague high on the opposite wall . |
| 12 | ‘ When we understood what he meant to do , we endeavoured to dissuade him ; but he was resolute , saying he had not had a roll for a long time ; and taking out of his pockets whatever might be in them — keys , pencil , purse , or pen-knife — and laying himself parallel with the edge of the hill , he actually descended turning himself over and over till he came to the bottom . ’ |
| 13 | His eyes glaze over as he focuses on the photograph of him with his beloved — Illona Staller , better known as Cicciolina , the Italian porn star turned politician who recently made headlines by offering to let Saddam Hussein ‘ rape ’ her if he freed the hostages being held in the Middle East . |
| 14 | He ran on until he came to the tall reeds . |
| 15 | His , his personal stereo headphones get knocked off as he falls to the floor , and dinkly dinkly dinkly dinkly , |
| 16 | They live in a political cowards ' Disney world where Tom is always chasing Gerry in an ever-decreasing circle of options while , outside in the real world , Bugs Bunny is having his tail shot off as he chokes on the latest political carrot . |
| 17 | Of course , he flung her off when he woke in the morning . |
| 18 | One exception has been Dean Hodgson , a neat and conscientious opener who has been picking up where he left off the season before last . |
| 19 | But , she was telling the story of a man who was travelling over the moor and it was many years ago on horseback and er he was completely lost and wan , it was getting dark and he wanted to stay somewhere for the night and he sort of travelled and could n't see anywhere and eventually down a long drive he saw a house wi , blazing with lights so he went down this house and er , all the windows were alight , you know were lit up and he knocked at the door and knocked at the door , and knocked at the door and could n't get any answer , no one ever came to the door so in desperation he thought well this is no good ! |
| 20 | Oh that 's not to be , Sri Lanka are a hundred and thirty-eight for four and here 's Lawrence to pitched up and he drives outside the off stump , the ball goes through to Russell , low again , beaten back at the pace rehearses a shot outside the off stump , he was trying to hit it somewhere through extra cover . |
| 21 | He tipped his seat back and zipped his jacket right up and he asked for the music to go on again , and he lay there in the dark with the music on , feeling warm in the middle of the freezing night , and he could feel himself smiling . |
| 22 | She picked Mo up and he dived inside the neck of her dress , scratching her , and then lying quiet in the place he liked best , curled just above her waist and held securely by her belt . |
| 23 | The crowd opened up and he headed for the gate . |
| 24 | Many of the instrumental numbers were so relaxed , they looked like they were amusing themselves at a family party and when Harry told everyone to stand up as he bopped around the stage in his black silk suit , everyone did as they were told . |
| 25 | My men picked him up as he came over the Luxembourg border . |
| 26 | Mariana looked up as he returned to the living-room . |
| 27 | I started Armstrong up as he emerged from the building with a large jiffy bag under his arm . |
| 28 | He , he did it once or twice , had to give up when he got to the mouth of the River Orwell because he mistimed the currents but he did , he did eventually do it from Stoke Bathing Place to Felixstowe . |
| 29 | Claire got up when he came into the kitchen . |
| 30 | When that time was up an envoy from the Iranian Embassy in Paris had been violently beaten up when he called at the shipowner 's apartment . |