Example sentences of "[adj] and he [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thereafter the relationship became steadily more strained and he left during the 1978 season . |
| 2 | His industry was prodigious and he left to the Museum a volume of files , indexes , and notebooks filled with accurate and methodically arranged taxonomic work , together with his exceptionally fine library of works on Polyzoa and whales . |
| 3 | Chatam had not been seen in public since finishing fourth to Sibton Abbey in the Hennessy at Newbury in November , and Pipe said yesterday : ‘ It was a fine run considering he had been off the course for so long and he goes for the Gold Cup with every chance . |
| 4 | The gruel was served up and a long grace was said over a short the gruel disappeared , the boys looked at each other and went over , while his next neighbours nudged him , tired as he was he was desperately hungry and he rest on the table and the master with his hands he said |
| 5 | Abigail 's door was ajar and he went into the room , bringing a segment of light with him , a triangle that fell short a yard from her cot . |
| 6 | The stool he was standing on broke and he fell to the ground . |
| 7 | And he , he was drunk and he got into the back of his leg with his glass and he got it out , it was a great big steel |
| 8 | Her face loomed huge and strong and worried and he struggled with the dryness in his throat , trying to ask a question without knowing what it was . |
| 9 | She thought , as what she said registered and he looked towards the couch , that he looked grateful , and wondered if he was vaguely remembering that the last time he 'd been plastered he had spent the night on that same couch . |
| 10 | The senators smile faded and he leaned over the rail to let the ash that had formed on his cigar fall into the muddy river . |
| 11 | turn the crane round one way then the other and he got on the same lever but today they got , cos they got big lovely cranes where they stand there with four levers , four controls they 've got and it goes up and down . |
| 12 | and I said I could imagine , you know , the boys are there with the boat , they 've got it ready and he steps off the other one and they say oh I 'm sorry missed your footing did you ? |