Example sentences of "[noun pl] he [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wonder how many frying-pans and kettles he gets through in a week , he mused . |
| 2 | All he had by then were the rags he stood up in — and his gun . |
| 3 | This artist is less interested in ornament than Euphronios , often content with borders in black silhouette rather than red-figure ; but in other respects he takes on from him and goes further . |
| 4 | ‘ I know the words he came out with were those of other people , the writers , but they were written with him in mind . |
| 5 | In the first months he travelled up to London on Wednesday , sometimes by train but often one of his neighbours , Sir Philip Gibbs , would drive him . |
| 6 | After some 18 months he handed over to Mr T. White . |
| 7 | Every few paces he glanced back across his shoulder . |
| 8 | Sitting at her feet he gazed up into her withered child 's face and began again . |
| 9 | On leaden feet he moved back to the staircase and made his way to the half-landing at its top . |
| 10 | After the second of these excursions he came back to Marian 's side with : ‘ Is it not time that we took a look into this sack ? ’ |
| 11 | Bill went broke after bingeing on booze early in his TV career and after tax bills he ended up with all his worldly goods in four packing cases . |
| 12 | But when I went in , Gerry 's workmanship , when I think of those cupboards he put in for me |
| 13 | After short periods as general manager and chief engineer of the Mutual and the New Telephone Companies he set up in practice in 1893 as a consulting telephone and telegraph engineer , in which capacity he acted as consulting engineer to the telephone departments of Guernsey ( 1896–1921 ) and Glasgow ( 1900–4 ) , as well as Portsmouth , Hull , Brighton , and Swansea ( 1900–11 ) . |
| 14 | The noises he came out with were amazing , laughing and cooing and gurgling , but he shut his mouth ‘ absolutely ’ against porridge . |
| 15 | At intervals he looked up at Cornelius and shook his head doubtfully . |
| 16 | Judge Alfredo Gustilo said in Manila Burton 's claim that he did not know the contraband was among his belongings was ‘ absurd ’ because customs police found four blocks of hashish hidden in the pair of shoes he had on at the time of his arrest . |
| 17 | Graham ( whose chapter on budgeting and allocating is essential reading ) reports a survey of 23 university libraries he carried out in 1985 , in which 14 of the library grants covered only non-staffing costs ( books , periodicals , binding and operational money ) , whilst the other nine included staffing , though usually with severe limitations on virement between staffing and other sub-heads . |
| 18 | In those days he came in with a His coachman brought him in the trap and they got the twenty minutes past seven express train to Glasgow . |
| 19 | It was a great comfort to have him here , but in three days he went back to San Francisco . |
| 20 | For whole days he wandered off to the cafés and bars in a stand to assert his independence . |
| 21 | For one or two days he sat down with me , and I tried to teach him . |
| 22 | After making his plans for the safekeeping of funds in several banks he started off on his travels once again . |
| 23 | How could we use this what are the benefits of doing this or the disadvantages of doing this so that you 've got people within the group who could as a plant and know what to do with those ideas he comes up with them or she comes up with them do n't know what to do with them just comes up it 's up to the rest of the group and monitor evaluate you know the person that 's always putting things that never work . |
| 24 | For the next eleven years he shipped out on various vessels as boy steward , able seaman or boatswain-second mate and sometimes as cook . |
| 25 | For two years he went out to nightclubs in Paris every night until six in the morning . |
| 26 | Rushing off across the moors he set off in pursuit of Tamara . |
| 27 | Twenty-seven questions he got out in ten minutes , and answered three . |
| 28 | The categories and concepts he hammered out in his attack on Idealism — many of them of course drawn from Idealism itself , but refashioned by him — are by no means wholly adequate to serve the restatement of Christian theology , and could indeed lead to the emergence of philosophies quite alien to Christianity itself . |
| 29 | And then er the man that went round with all these knives and things he went down to the to the soo cray if you ken what that is . |
| 30 | The Bible offers to twentieth-century man the very things he cries out for . |