Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] [conj] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A British citizen with a valid passport does not need a visa to visit the U.S. for up to 90 days for holiday or business or to transit if he enters the country on an air carrier that has agreed to participate in the no-visa program . |
| 2 | Afterwards he got in touch , not to sign me but to offer encouragement and say that he liked the album . |
| 3 | He hummed softly ‘ There 'll always be an England ’ and joked as he shifted the weight of his rucksack ‘ as if on a walking holiday ’ . |
| 4 | When the British columnist Godfrey Winn travelled to Northern Ireland in June 1941 to interview the crew of Smith 's Catalina and found that he had the scoop of a lifetime , he was not able to use it , and based his article instead on Smith 's co-pilot , Flight-Lieutenant Briggs of the RAF . |
| 5 | Dear Guitarist I was just reading Joe Satriani 's article in your mag and found that he suffered the same as myself regarding the tremolo unit on his Ibanez . |
| 6 | She was surprised and offended when he left the room . |
| 7 | Sweet Molly , who he was about to take out for the day and seduce if he got the chance . |
| 8 | He 'd grow and grow until he burst the house apart . |
| 9 | Lieutenant Simon Doggett waited at the crossroads and frowned when he saw the blood on Sharpe 's arm . |
| 10 | She saw his eyes go to the coat fixture , and guessed that he knew the jacket hanging there belonged to Travis when he went and took it from its hanger . |
| 11 | Connors lit a cigarette and nodded as he inhaled the smoke . |
| 12 | The report described Than Shwe as one of the " old school " of army commanders and claimed that he resented the " brash , swashbuckling ways of Khin Nyunt and his coterie of younger officers " . |
| 13 | Faced with an audience which included Dikaiopolis , the main character in Aristophanes ' Acharnians ( see lines 1ff. ) , farting and grumbling as he watched the Spartan ; put a match to the combustible parts of Attica , a speaker might well need to invent cruder techniques . |
| 14 | Write the Captain 's log for the period that starts when they first saw the strange " whale " and ends when he saw the Monongahela for the last time . |
| 15 | The pilot repeated this information and stated that he had the airfield in sight . |
| 16 | ‘ Yes , sir , ’ I said , and retreated as he began the ultimate heresy of sloshing Remy Martin 's finest on to rocks . |
| 17 | He told a press briefing that the issue remained under review , and emphasised that he hoped the legislation on unofficial strikes would help to prevent disruption of essential services . |
| 18 | Quick as a flash , Simon 's laughing was replaced by tutting and headshaking as he dusted the car off , muttering something about hooligans . |
| 19 | He felt a sticky wetness on his left leg , glanced down and swore as he saw the bloodstain spreading downwards from around the bullet hole in the denim . |
| 20 | Then Armagh manager Jim McCorry whipped the 22-year-old student out from the wings , placed him on centre stage — and watched as he took the house down . |
| 21 | It should be noteá though that he crosses one boundary , from graveyard to dream , but not the next ; when he tries to swim the river to Heaven at the end of the poem he is halted and woken before he reaches the water . |
| 22 | Thus , the Act of Appeals of 1533 empowered him to punish heretics and hinted that he possessed the additional authority to determine what constituted heresy . |
| 23 | This testimonial was given by Edmund Halley [ q.v. ] in a letter written ‘ By the command of the Royal Society ’ in 1693 : ‘ I have , by Order of the Royal Society seen and examined the method used by Mr John Marshall , for grinding glasses , and find that he performs the said work with greater ease and certainty , than hitherto has been practised , by means of an invention , which I take to be his own , and new , and whereby he is enabled to make a great number of Optick-Glasses , at one time , and all exactly alike , which having been reported to the Royal Society , they were pleased to approve thereof , as an Invention of Great Use , and Highly to deserve Incouragement . ’ |
| 24 | He opened his eyes and started as he recognised the white anxious face , staring green eyes and tousled hair of his servant , Ranulf , whom he had last seen in the infirmary of Tynemouth Priory . |
| 25 | Oliver bounded upstairs , and slowed when he saw the figures on the landing . |
| 26 | He would touch the menacing batons very gingerly , withdrawing his fingers sharply from their hardness and flinching as he imagined the solid clump sound as a baton descended on someone 's skull . |
| 27 | Nails , now a connoisseur of horses , looked critically at Midnight and saw that he possessed the same nervous temperament as Lucky Lady Firelight , and was pleased . |
| 28 | Slightly breathless , I stood by his side and listened as he addressed the little creatures . |
| 29 | Robyn rested her head on her arms on the sill of the open window and listened as he climbed the spiral staircase . |
| 30 | He took it and laughed as he counted the few coins . |