Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | On the point of death he forgave them their sin , saying they should retain their tenancy of the abbot 's lands , and of his successors , by the performance of the detailed penance he laid out for them . |
| 32 | Recently he penned probably the most abrasively intelligent letter ever to appear in Melody Maker , in which he laid out with admirable succinctness the differences between his pop aesthetic ( making sense of the world , pop as motivator ) and what he identified as the MM aesthetic of pop as dissipation . |
| 33 | 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 . |
| 34 | Collecting her ticket , she came up behind him again as he checked in for the flight . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | Soon after , he checked out in Vegas , the suspicion of murder hovering over the coroner 's report . |
| 37 | He beamed down at his own plate , then cast a glance of concern at hers , a plain grilled escalope with tomatoes . |
| 38 | He beamed back at them . |
| 39 | He plunged back into his contemplation of the engine . |
| 40 | He plunged back into his work , forgetting about her before she was through the door . |
| 41 | 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 . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | Then he plunged off into the Britches to check the nest-boxes . |
| 44 | He skips over for the bloody |
| 45 | The large nylon-clad bottom swished close to Charles ' face as he limped up after her . |
| 46 | He limped over to the window , pulled the curtains across and looked down . |
| 47 | He limped over to Grimma , catching hold of a thorn twig to steady himself . |
| 48 | He limped out of the heather , sat on the stones and shook the wet from his fur . |
| 49 | SINCE he limped out of the Old Firm game on 2 January , Tony Mowbray has missed all of Celtic 's last 13 matches . |
| 50 | Shielding his eyes against the dust and heat with an upraised arm , he limped back to the corner and peered round . |
| 51 | Before he limped off during Saturday 's game , the league 's highest paid player had scored just one goal in six matches . |
| 52 | She nodded and sipped : he leaned his head forward and she brought the glass to his mouth : he finished it and she let it fall on a bush of discarded clothing as he swooped down with his hand , lifted her dress clear over her waist and then , as she struggled to help him , tugged it over her head . |
| 53 | Suddenly he drifts off into a momentary reverie , gradually descending back to earth . |
| 54 | He drifts back towards the floor . |
| 55 | When I got back from Maslins ’ that day and wanted to know where you were , he clammed up on me . ’ |
| 56 | Carolyn knew that he was angry with her , for some reason which she could n't fathom , and that the more she pressed him for an explanation the more he clammed up over it . |
| 57 | In fact , he turns up at the Harlem Hospital , a few blocks north , two days later , and is heckled as he walks along the wards . |
| 58 | ‘ He turns up at absolutely everything we ask . |
| 59 | He has received a card with drawings of gangsters on it and threats of a ‘ warm welcome ’ if he turns up for the second-round tie . |
| 60 | And he turned up because he turns up for everything . |