Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] [v-ing] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What had made him take up writing in the first place ? the interviewer asked . |
| 2 | He goes round banging on the barrels . ) |
| 3 | He ca n't he wakes up sobbing in the middle of the night . ’ |
| 4 | She said : ‘ After one of his trips to Highgrove he came back raving about the solid gold service . |
| 5 | He finished up fighting with the Czech resistance in Prague until the Russians arrived . |
| 6 | White cell 007 nods : ‘ You ca n't help hearing it , the way he keeps on mooching about the house , hating everything and everyone . |
| 7 | but , with , with this walk down into this , this dip so I had to get underneath and I said where 'd you park ? and he said the second floor taking the piss , so apparently three of his other mates who were well dressed up as well , and he , he said race ya , so I started off fucking , so he , he started off running through the thing right , cos said race yeah , he went , apparently I just climbed up the outside of the building climbed up two fucking flights of floors , you know , I ca n't remember anything about it though . |
| 8 | Mr McTear , a former 60-a-day smoker , is suing Imperial Tobacco for damages , claiming that the company failed to warn him of health hazards when he took up smoking in the mid 1960s . |
| 9 | He went on gazing into the flames and she knew his thoughts were too far away for her words to reach him . |
| 10 | He had found he had a good voice and was taking singing lessons , and he went on flirting with the piano and a trumpet he had bought between practising his flute . |
| 11 | His last years were marred by debilitating illness but , a compulsive worker , he went on writing until the end , dying at his home in Cambridge 19 December 1978 . |
| 12 | He went on looking at the disgusting bits . |
| 13 | He went on looking at the floor , thoughtful . |
| 14 | He went on going through the motions of being a poet until the very end , and inevitably , because he kept in practice , hit upon some successes — ‘ gleams like the flashing of a shield ’ occur in unexpected places . |
| 15 | He went on staring at the television screen , not listening to the next item , but trying to work out the puzzle . |
| 16 | He went on staring at the Hare-woman . |
| 17 | ‘ But if he went out flailing with the score at 0-1 in a Test and got out , he would be crucified . |
| 18 | He carried on racing after the war and in 1946 , at the age of 54 , won the Albi Grand Prix . |
| 19 | He carried on playing despite the pain and was singled out for praise by coach Berbizier who thanked him for his dedication and courage . |
| 20 | ‘ Not much , ’ he dismissed as he carried on walking towards the cottage . |
| 21 | He carried on walking through the bodies , looking at the nurses . |
| 22 | As an engineer , with a craftsperson 's interest in machines , he could not believe that they were the real villains of the piece and he set about looking for the deeper fault underlying their applications . |
| 23 | He set about struggling through the narrow window , one hand clutching the Champagne by its neck . |
| 24 | A couple of days , he 'd said , but he ended up staying in the Commercial Hotel for almost a year . |
| 25 | He stood up ticking off the events with his glass aginst the fingers of his left hand . |