Example sentences of "[noun pl] [adv] [conj] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Willie turned back to look at the comics so that he missed the surprised expression on his face . |
| 2 | He was several paces past when he heard the car doors open and realised just how outnumbered he was . |
| 3 | The depth of Nizan 's commitment to the Soviet Union was similarly visible a few months later when he described the great steps made by the mass of the Soviet people in terms of cultural development : When you have seen young workers in Moscow or Tashkent … speaking passionately of Gogol or Gorky , you realise that the Soviet people have gained admission to the high culture that was previously a privilege of the bourgeoisie … |
| 4 | ‘ Well , it 's nice not to find yourself dead , ’ she said , but she closed her eyes submissively as he drew the sheets up over her . |
| 5 | Scudamore has opted for Chatham instead of stablemate Rushing Wild who first sprang to prominence on Gold Cup day 12 months ago when he demolished the opposition in the Foxhunter Challenge Cup . |
| 6 | The composer 's father , Leopold , unwittingly started the rot over two centuries ago when he took the six-year-old Mozart to market , as it were , on the celebrated tour of Europe 's courts and palaces . |
| 7 | He nodded and the bookie nodded back , his eyes everywhere as he scanned the other faces , looking for takers amid the din . |
| 8 | ‘ How do you find yourself now , my dear wife ? ’ said the locksmith , taking a chair near his wife ( who had resumed her book ) , and rubbing his knees hard as he made the inquiry . |
| 9 | I think he treated the dogs better than he treated the women , actually- ’ Markby broke off embarrassed . |
| 10 | He told the writer Constantine FitzGibbon some years later that he disliked the idea of poets " cashing in " on other people 's misery ; his scepticism about his own motives as well as those of others , and his general belief that one should not comment on any situation until one understood it thoroughly , made him refrain from making the kind of easy judgment or fashionable " stand " in which others indulged . |
| 11 | His greatest triumph came seven years later when he defeated the seemingly invincible Jimmy Connors to capture Wimbledon , with brilliant variations of pace and style . |
| 12 | It was over 150 years ago that he saw the need for working men to have somewhere to meet in their spare time , to talk and relax . |
| 13 | George Canning got it exactly right almost 200 years ago when he addressed the House of Commons : |
| 14 | Bryan 's name first surfaced in London 's snob society two years ago when he met the Yorks at a dinner party . |
| 15 | One of the last jobs of Leicester serviceman Taffy he retires shortly has involved working on a machine of the type he first handled fifty years ago when he joined the B U. |
| 16 | Did n't Cloughie get done for doing something similar a few years ago when he chinned the Forest fan who 'd run on the pitch ( later kissed him but brought out one of the all-time commentators classics from Greavesie when he said ‘ It was the first time the shit really had hit the fan ’ ) . |
| 17 | The historian Kirkpatrick was recalling an incident fourteen years earlier when he included the above in his 1751 treatise ‘ Reflections on the Causes that may retard Putrefaction of dead Bodies ’ . |
| 18 | He apologised profusely for being five years late when he opened the annual fund-raising garden party for the hospice . |
| 19 | I waited behind him a moment , looking at the Bonnards again while he addressed the envelope . |
| 20 | Ross said some hours later as he entered the apartment while she was giving the children their supper . |
| 21 | She was still lying on the carpet five minutes later when he left the apartment . |
| 22 | Cascarino should have done better when he shot weakly on the turn , but was unlucky two minutes later when he struck the bar with a superb volley . |
| 23 | Worker robbed : Police were last night hunting two men who attacked and robbed a factory worker of several hundred pounds shortly after he collected the cash from a bank near North Shields town centre . |
| 24 | In the absence of express provisions in the contract , s 35 of the SGA makes this difficult for him , since it provides that he is deemed to have accepted goods either when he tells the seller that he has done so , or when he does an act in relation to them which is inconsistent with the ownership of the seller . |
| 25 | TYCOON Richard Branson launched sky wars yesterday as he slashed the cost of return trips to America to just £93 . |
| 26 | A DOCTOR choked back tears yesterday as he told the Beverley Allitt murder trial how a seven-week-old baby had died inexplicably . |
| 27 | Making his way forward , he dragged sailbags out until he found the huge , feather-light balloon spinnaker . |
| 28 | THE most outspoken critic of Malawi 's repressive government , Mr Chakufwa Chihana , was arrested by police yesterday as he entered the country . |
| 29 | She was roused from this reverie seconds later when he gulped the last of the juice and said , ‘ I know what Faye 's ‘ few minutes ’ mean . |
| 30 | When he told me to strip I refused , saying that I would change my clothes only if he left the room . |