Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spoiling his fine Lace Coat , which they told him came out of the Treasury " . |
| 2 | All of his suspicions about women since Angela Deverill 's treatment of him came back with a rush , and he could not tell whether McAllister was registering shame or guilt . |
| 3 | They left with him tied up like a criminal . |
| 4 | For a moment there was silence , then the boy spoke again , the whole of him gathered up into the movement of his lips . |
| 5 | well there is that would n't taken him went off to the ch |
| 6 | I like Rossmayne and I did n't want him mixed up in a scandal . |
| 7 | During a sojourn in Northumbria one of these ‘ academic high-flyers ’ remained implacably ‘ not one of us ’ , and I heard him summed up in the following terms : |
| 8 | I saw George outside under the station lights and watched him set off towards the rear of the train . |
| 9 | This hooking action is important because it interferes with the opponent 's attempts to free his arm and keeps him closed off for a longer period . |
| 10 | Well , you could have put that scene he made on at a theatre in the West End and charged for tickets , I reckon . |
| 11 | Oh he used to wash them and he had a proper , he had a case what he made up with a rack so as he could drop them all in . |
| 12 | They did not keep him long , however , and this time he made off with a companion and even had the nerve to work for three months on a French farm before starting a marathon trek across the entire length of France . |
| 13 | He made off with an undisclosed amount of cash . |
| 14 | A gunman fired more than 20 shots into the building , but as he made off in a stolen car , a soldier fired a single shot from an Army observation post on the top of a block of flats several hundred yards away . |
| 15 | He made off in a W-registered Ford Cortina estate , stolen in Middlesbrough on May 11 . |
| 16 | She always observed every move he made out of the corner of one eye , though , and if he stirred in any way , even just to stretch or yawn , she would immediately react and flex herself to take defensive action . |
| 17 | In this way he even controverts the view that he lived up to the feared role of private sector financial disciplinarian when he brought qualified accountants for the first time into the head office . |
| 18 | He lived out in the country for a number of years , lived in poverty , erm , he thought about and he wrote about suicide . |
| 19 | I visited him and he dosed up like a clam . |
| 20 | Furthermore , when he checked back on the correlation between his simple lix values and the criterion of pooled estimates of difficulty , he found that the figure was 0.92 , which was exactly the same as that obtained from the multiple regression . |
| 21 | Collecting her ticket , she came up behind him again as he checked in for the flight . |
| 22 | Once at Frankfurt 's Rhine-Main airport he had collected the keys of a Golf Corbio from the Hertz desk and driven the twenty-four miles on the A66 to Mainz where he checked in at the Europa Hotel on Kaiserstrasse . |
| 23 | He plunged down for an interminable second , arms and legs splayed out in abandon , forgotten , tumbling anyhow , and crashed onto the stage on his back , lying across Bothwell , whose cloak was the colour of blood . |
| 24 | He came back , and he had been very quick , with an umbrella from which , as he plunged in through the swing door , he was tearing the plastic wrapping . |
| 25 | Then he plunged off into the Britches to check the nest-boxes . |
| 26 | He limped over to the window , pulled the curtains across and looked down . |
| 27 | He limped out of the heather , sat on the stones and shook the wet from his fur . |
| 28 | SINCE he limped out of the Old Firm game on 2 January , Tony Mowbray has missed all of Celtic 's last 13 matches . |
| 29 | Shielding his eyes against the dust and heat with an upraised arm , he limped back to the corner and peered round . |
| 30 | The drums then took up a regular beat as he stalked back to the coffin . |