Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [conj] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I told him that when he came up the ramp he must accelerate on the throttle at speed so that he got the front wheel up in the air , so he would n't nosedive and hurt himself . |
| 2 | She makes a little lurch forward and he has the tray . |
| 3 | Or has the right hon. Gentleman changed his mind again because he wants the key to No. 10 ? |
| 4 | Pulling on the reins with one hand and pushing the big horse with the other , she backed him straight into the drunken lout just as he flung the cloak aside . |
| 5 | So they ate bread together while he read the paper . |
| 6 | He managed to get his question in as he crossed the Hammersmith Flyover . |
| 7 | The Reverend W Awdry has lived and breathed Thomas the Tank engine ever since he wrote the first book about the lovable locomotive in 1945. 25 more books about Thomas and his friends followed Mas well as popular TV series . |
| 8 | Mr Bush accepted the Pentagon proposal even though he told the United Nations that he believed ‘ we can achieve the level of verification that gives us confidence to go forward with this ban ’ . |
| 9 | He learned to play golf one-handed , although he could also use a two-handed grip sometimes if he controlled the left hand carefully with the right . |
| 10 | It can be an insurance scam , of course ; some owner who needs money more than he needs the family heirloom . |
| 11 | Left-booted , he forced the bike upright as he hit the water , which was less than a foot deep . |
| 12 | In Manchester in 1779 ‘ he acquaints the gentlemen of the town etc. that he practises the art of Land Surveying , as measuring and planning estates , setting out land for building on , dividing of ground , levelling etc . ’ |
| 13 | There is one place only where he lifts the curtain . |
| 14 | Willie gazed at the shop dreamily as he crossed the road . |
| 15 | In this sense Cuvier anticipated the modern , Darwinian view of Nature even though he rejected the idea of transmutation . |
| 16 | Like the aristocracy , therefore , the Church could count on its urban mob , and in the riots of 1766 the Orders were accused of releasing this urban clientèle against a reforming administration ; Aranda , the most conspicuous of Charles III 's anti-clerical ministers , called to power to deal with the rioters , seems to have planned a serious attack on poverty precisely because he feared the influence of a Church with a monopoly of outdoor relief . |
| 17 | Kirov checked his watch carefully as he tuned the set to Voice of America . |
| 18 | Although his voice and the accent change slightly when he becomes the narrator , Dustin was brilliantly convincing as a very old man , as well as managing to look and behave like a very young man when necessary . |
| 19 | He wrote a poem , ‘ The Jew ’ , and a play , ‘ Moses ’ , published in a pamphlet of that title shortly before he crossed the Channel with the King 's Own Royal Lancaster Regiment in June 1916 . |
| 20 | He began to whistle a tune that had been dancing through his head ever since he left the pub : |
| 21 | The president of the Teamsters , William J McCarthy , had himself come under criticism recently after he awarded the union 's printing contract , worth $350,000 per month , to his son-in-law . |
| 22 | Most people agreed that things had gone a bit far when he told the Church , in 1982 , to ‘ Face north-west whenever possible . ’ |
| 23 | Lord Wellworthy can enforce the covenant only whilst he retains the legal estate in the Stately Mansion Hotel . |
| 24 | But he had probably not read Arnauld , at any rate not before he wrote the Essay . |
| 25 | McAleese has a new-found enthusiasm for the game now that he has the captain 's tag alongside his name , and was in irrepressible form last week when Ballymena hammered Hawick . |
| 26 | Beador knew the ground well for he led the way unhesitatingly through a maze of rides , some broad and straight , some narrow and zigzag . |
| 27 | It had been tricky enough for him to help the women to whom he had no commitment even though he felt the deepest pity for them , but to help McAllister , whom he loved so dearly — how was he to do that ? |
| 28 | We had barely got off the ground again when he grabbed the undercarriage lever and shouted into his microphone " this puts the undercarriage up , " followed by the most hysterical laughter . |
| 29 | And it was as Doyle swung the car out into the traffic again that he glimpsed the girl from the oriental-art shop . |
| 30 | That gave Webb an easy catch and it gave him the time to see that Bath would have a man over if he ran the ball to the left . |