Example sentences of "[vb pp] [adv] [subord] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He skirted the branch that lay across the path and carried on till he reached the feeding-place . |
| 2 | Next to his plate was a jotting pad and pen which he must have picked up as he passed the navigation station . |
| 3 | Amiss looked back before he closed the door . |
| 4 | His language was certainly not watered down when he charged the scribes and Pharisees with being ‘ white-washed sepulchres ’ , ‘ blind guides ’ and even ‘ a brood of vipers ’ . |
| 5 | He comes across a flock of sheep belonging to the priest , one of which he takes ; he then returns to the priest , pretending not to be the traveller already refused entry , and this time is accepted in as he offers the sheep in payment . |
| 6 | I replied that if Seius Oceanus ( to whom the estate ought to be made over when he reached the age of sixteen , under trust under the will of Seius Saturninus by the trustee-heir Valerius Maximus ) died before he completed the set period of time , the estate under trust belongs to the person to whom the rest of his property will belong , since the trust vested during his lifetime , that is if by postponing the time for payment the testator would seem rather to have granted the trustee-heir custody than to have imposed an uncertain term on the trust . |
| 7 | He recalls vividly being told shortly after he took the job at Fawley refinery that an Esso director would be calling to see him . |
| 8 | He heard the front door being opened even as he unfolded the cloth and began to read . |
| 9 | The palms of his hands were sweating and he had yawned twice since he left the car . |
| 10 | Dorcas slipped into the familiar gloom under the floor and padded along until he found the switch . |
| 11 | Lance Rees was set on as he passed the sorting office in Withernsea , Humberside , on his way to school . |
| 12 | Finbar O'Doherty was cheered loudly when he mounted the stairway to address the crowd . |
| 13 | Thus the farmer on whose land the first find was made discovered his land was being prospected only when he found the prospectors sampling streams on his land . |
| 14 | His head still spun slightly as he followed the words and looked upwards intermittently to see by the expression of a face if someone had forgotten their lines . |
| 15 | But his gaze was rigidly fixed ahead as he steered the little helicopter up the meandering Thames . |
| 16 | There you will see thousands of cars speeding by , each with the driver alone , his head thrown back as he yells the words aloud , her fist slapping the wheel in time to the beat , thousands of silent screams haring up the M1 to get to that meeting on schedule . |
| 17 | Thirty seconds had ticked past since he entered the baggage room . |
| 18 | His voice had hardened briefly as he added the caution , but when he went on again it was low and musing . |