Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [conj] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lieutenant had n't gone fifteen yards before the first bullet hit him , but somehow he still managed to carry on until he reached the wire . |
| 2 | He began his term in office much in the spirit he intends to go on when he blasted the banks and receivers for causing so much misery among the small business community . |
| 3 | Bridges ( 1979 ) certainly does n't think so because he sees the curriculum as a selection from culture requiring value judgements over which teachers have no monopoly of wisdom . |
| 4 | He skirted the branch that lay across the path and carried on till he reached the feeding-place . |
| 5 | Of another restorer working on similar sculptures , Minervino claimed that he ‘ stopped long before he reached the skin of the marble ’ . |
| 6 | He lies down if he hears the National Anthem . |
| 7 | If we do we 'll be like the man in the cartoon who fell off the Empire State Building and shouted just before he hit the ground ‘ I 'm doing great so far ’ . |
| 8 | That in itself was a minor triumph for the Popular Front agitation ; Chamberlain moved partly because he feared the domestic consequences of not doing so . |
| 9 | This time he did n't open the door for her , and she had difficulty keeping up as he took the front stairs two at a time . |
| 10 | Hurry up cos he wants the margarine , can he have the margarine while you 're spreading on ? |
| 11 | Next to his plate was a jotting pad and pen which he must have picked up as he passed the navigation station . |
| 12 | He says he wanted to find out if he had the intellectual ability to complete a degree starting from nothing . |
| 13 | Amiss looked back before he closed the door . |
| 14 | The tabby a couple of houses away on the other side is a cheeky sod and was due a lesson next time I found him walking around like he owned the place . |
| 15 | FRANKE SLOOTHAAK 'S fortunes changed abruptly when he won the Everest Grand Prix , the closing contest of The Horse of the Year Show at Wembley , for the second year in succession . |
| 16 | The row erupted again when he won the Nobel last year , and the citation named the offending work . |
| 17 | She was sitting by the window at a little table she used as a writing desk , and she jerked round as he entered the room , but she did n't rise . |
| 18 | I remember once the late professor G S Stuart reminding us that , in relation to the death of Jesus on the cross , we do not know how deep were the waters crossed , or how dark was the night that the lord passed through ere he found the sheep that was lost . |
| 19 | Then he darted out of the room , pausing only when he reached the barn , to lean against the door and breathe deeply . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | Unfortunately he had n't repeated that success and Inspector he had remained , and would do so until he left the force . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | He looked round sharply then exhaled deeply when he saw the man 's face peering in at him . |
| 25 | I saw him grinning ferally as he worked the gun with both hands , spent cartridges flying into the air . |
| 26 | His mouth twisted slightly as he found the ignition and they set off , leaving behind a trail of smoke . |
| 27 | His eyes were intently on her as he came back and he put the things he had brought on her dressing-table , ready to remove . |
| 28 | The relative speed with which emancipation came about after he ascended the throne gives the impression that he addressed himself to it with enthusiasm , but even in Russian politics six years was a long time . |
| 29 | Woolley side-slipped and fell behind it , then climbed and injected a long burst into its belly , searching forwards until he saw the bullets slashing up between the wing-roots . |
| 30 | Dusan Plut , chair of the party , had said earlier that he wished the Greens to " act as a constructive opposition " but later agreed to join the coalition which was led by the outgoing Prime Minister , Janez Drnovsek of the Liberal Democratic Party ( LDS ) . |