Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | While he still had five fingers under his command he went back to the window and dropped Estabrook 's letter through , murmuring the address with a tongue that felt disfigured in his mouth . |
2 | The male sits on a favoured perch and when this is visited by a rival he sidles up to the intruder . |
3 | WHEN Alan Fennah opened his mail he came out with the classic One Foot In The Grave line : ‘ I do not believe it ! ’ |
4 | ‘ That this deal he set up with the Iranians through Nadirpur — part of the arrangement was that Philippe be released — in return for French arms . ’ |
5 | At the next intersection he drew in against the left-hand wall , peering around the corner into the corridor to his left . |
6 | On leaden feet he moved back to the staircase and made his way to the half-landing at its top . |
7 | Ace in particular seemed genuinely interested in her work and , although she 'd never really been fooled into thinking his life was a hedonistic round of pleasure apart from risking his life sixteen weekends a year , she was quite surprised at the dedication he displayed in keeping fit and the work he put in behind the scenes . |
8 | ‘ Why not ? ’ he said , and taking both plate and chicken he hurried out to the scullery . |
9 | With a brief laugh he lay back on the bed , closing his eyes . |
10 | Kelly was excellent at right back , as was Dorigo on the left : once in the first half he stepped in from the left to tidy up the ball from charging Ippo players , strolled over to the right , and set up a counter attack down the flank , all with great ease ; he looks great . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | From Ireland he moved on to the Outer Hebrides , which he reached on 30 August , and then to his most northerly landfall , Foula off the Shetlands , on 3 September . |
13 | When he reached the last machine he went back to the beginning and played them all again . |
14 | The moment he walked in at the door he knew something was very wrong . |
15 | For a moment he looked out across the water meadow , enjoying the night 's stillness , the beauty of the full moon overhead . |
16 | Minton 's intelligent responsiveness , to the character of people and places , was in operation the moment he stepped on to the SS Bayano of the Fyffes Line . |
17 | The moment he went back into the house the gardeners would run out to eradicate the tracks left by his coming and going . |
18 | When he left the Kunstgewerbeschule in 1936 he set up in Zurich as a freelance photograph , a job he fitted in between the traditional periods of military service compulsory in Switzerland , then worked for a year in the famous magazine Graphics . |
19 | He is also extremely wealthy , and personally worth an additional Pounds 50m , thanks to the cash he raked in during the roaring 80s . |
20 | Galliéni , who was senior to Joffre , had been offered the supreme command , a post he turned down on the grounds that all his experience had been as a colonial soldier and administrator . |
21 | He was magnificent in doing his job and never surrendering , or even looking like surrendering the lead he built up from the green light . |
22 | For whole days he wandered off to the cafés and bars in a stand to assert his independence . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | The old man had set off too and as he caught up with the cart he looked up at the fuming totter . |
25 | With Emery Walker he turned back to the Roman types of four hundred years before and to the beauty of woodcut title-pages . |
26 | ALAN SHEARER 'S success at Blackburn Rovers is reflected in the massive signing-on fee he picked up in the record move . |
27 | Reduced by that process he fell back into the void , the shrieking loneliness of the proud ego . |
28 | Another delay as the work train was slowly shunted along , and as there were no seats on the customer side of the counter in the tiny room he went out into the periodicals area . |
29 | As I entered the room he got up from the floor , drawing his sleeve across his mouth . |
30 | Pressing himself against the wall he looked down at the body . |