Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Watch me , ’ said Amiss , as at high speed he put on the clothes Pooley had just brought him . |
| 2 | Reaching into his car he hauled out the powerful pair of binoculars he always carried . |
| 3 | The Empress was in great beauty … the Emperor also looked very impressive , and when after the ceremony he held up the child in his arms to present him to the multitude , the enthusiasm was genuine and great . |
| 4 | And when Lugard came to look back on what had been accomplished in the early years of British administration he singled out the improved character of the native rulers , which he attributed to ‘ the unceasing efforts and devoted ability of the British staff , who have by precept and example made them what they are today ’ . |
| 5 | Well , I wo n't say but that was fair enough , a pity he has not the key he needs to read it , it would give him pleasure . |
| 6 | Robin adds that as a boy he saw both the Graf Zeppelin and R–101 , obviously an enthusiast from an early age . |
| 7 | For a brief moment he experienced again the exhilaration he had felt on the plain late the previous day when he dropped a big red banteng bull with a single shot from nearly two hundred yards . |
| 8 | But he also knew the moment he threw away the shotgun , he was also throwing away his last hope of survival . |
| 9 | For the moment he set aside the obvious solution . |
| 10 | As Polly took his place he started down the companionway . |
| 11 | With all the subtlety of a pub singer he prises away the so-called glamour and reveals a hard world full of sadness , unfulfilled dreams and barren values . |
| 12 | When he caught up with the spectators following the last match he picked up the information that had filtered back through the crowd 's grapevine . |
| 13 | In a subsequent article he sums up the reasons for de-industrialisation as follows : ‘ The most convincing explanation ’ , he writes , ‘ of progressive de-industrialisation in the U.K. is the weakening of the foreign trade sector with a slow growth of exports relative to other countries , and in relation to the propensity to import . ’ |
| 14 | The next day he drew out the last of his savings from the bank and left for Cornwall . |
| 15 | The policy of austerity and a strong franc , which he had so staunchly defended for the best part of a decade ( and which had earned him such praise abroad ) , was being blamed within France for recession and for the record level of unemployment ( it broke through the symbolic 3m mark the day he handed over the reins of government ) . |
| 16 | On the platform he picks up the local rumours . |
| 17 | For nearly half a mile he went back the way he had come , only to become more lost and confused than before . |
| 18 | Layton put it somewhat differently when he added that ‘ the two great qualities a young writer has are his arrogance and inexperience , ’ and on another occasion he picked out the twin characteristics of ‘ precocity and independence . ’ |
| 19 | After a while he became more the professor than the professor was himself — just by observing the distinguished man and taking his being into and upon himself … yes , I have never forgotten that . |
| 20 | By night he lived out the fantasies he had internalised from avidly watching his collection of over 6,000 slasher videos and pornographic manga comic-books . |
| 21 | Sombre , though with a pacy , filmic sequencing he whipped up the orchestra to a marvellously stylish finale . |
| 22 | ‘ With authority he commands even the unclean spirits and they obey him ’ ( 1:27 ) . |
| 23 | Despite the opposition of his father he took up the study of medicine , first at Leipzig University and then in Vienna , where his funds ran out , forcing him to take employment for a time with the Governor of Transylvania until he had accumulated sufficient money to continue his studies . |
| 24 | So after a week he takes away the bandage , removes the bit of radium , sure enough there 's a bright red radiation burn on his forearm but apart from that he feels fine , he does n't feel ill , he obviously has n't died , er so he said well I 'll leave that for a few weeks and monitor my , my health and see if there 's any long term affects from this exposure to , to radiation . |
| 25 | Every morning he went down the three flights of stairs the mail was there to be shuffled and dealt . |
| 26 | In the morning he picked up the van in Hilderbridge and drove to Jackley the long way round through Byss , having a newly upholstered chaise longue to deliver before he made the Jackley collection . |
| 27 | Early in his career he turned down the title role in David Lean 's Lawrence of Arabia ( eventually played by Peter O'Toole ) after producer Sam Speigel insisted he sign a long-term picture deal . |
| 28 | In a footnote he held up the Greek Doric style as the model for a reformed modern architecture . |
| 29 | Taking an envelope from his pocket he wrote down the names of his guests . |
| 30 | As Wilfred Owen moves into the second stanza he takes on the bigger issue of what he is really trying to say . |