Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he made to step down from the verandah he heard a footfall behind him and turned to find Lepine , already immaculate in his white suit , ready to leave . |
| 2 | Speaking after the withdrawal of the final charges Buckey , who had spent five years in prison before being released on bail in 1987 , said that he planned to move out of the state and " get some fresh air " . |
| 3 | The claim is disputed … but it 's still a good excuse for a ballooning festival.So the lawns of the Chase Hotel were busy this evening as the fist arrivals for the weekend event prepared for their ascent.We took up the offer of a flight with Ian Ashpole , who told us he planned to jump out of the balloon when we reached full height : |
| 4 | Nevertheless , Irwin appears to have reconciled the two to his own satisfaction , though the arguments to which he resorted owed more to the theological aptitude displayed in his youthful biography of Keble than to ordinary practical intelligence . |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm not going in there , am I ? ! ’ he asked pointing nervously to the basket . |
| 6 | Certainly , he failed to respond immediately to the gravity of the situation , and his authority slumped accordingly . |
| 7 | He failed to show up for the match amidst rumours that he had resigned as West Ham 's manager . |
| 8 | He failed to show how from the other direction values could arise from the people and become incorporated in the state ideology . |
| 9 | Most probably he got waffling on in the Royal Oak and that . |
| 10 | I think that it was when he got turned down for the job of a bus conductor . |
| 11 | Heading south he got beaten up by the Miami cops for having long hair . |
| 12 | Unfortunately he got cut off in the middle of a sentence . ’ |
| 13 | Usually he got palmed off with the Mile End Road , stabbings in Chinatown , Lascars , opium dens — you name it , Stitch was on the case . |
| 14 | He got phoned up by the other players ? |
| 15 | There consul in Rome came up on an official visit and there was nearly a diplomatic incident when he got thrown out of the new university canteen he come to expect . |
| 16 | ADO Thorpe said : ‘ It was an open lorry and he got thrown about in the back . |
| 17 | She had the knack of handling him if he got worked up about the posing , she knew how to quieten him down , and this ability to put up with his disagreeable side could only mean one thing , he reasoned . |
| 18 | One morning , he got caught short in the bathroom and was too weak to clean it up . |
| 19 | Now the name was not a famous one , the cloth merchant having lived his life in the comparative obscurity common to most of us , and my patient had never before visited that part of the country — and yet the details he unearthed coincided perfectly with the facts he had given me during his regression . |
| 20 | He tried to sit casually on the edge of his desk , farted loudly and stood up again . |
| 21 | " Not bad — not bad at all , " replied Joseph hurriedly and he tried to lean back against the cushions in the same careless fashion as his brother while the two rickshaws rolled on together side by side through the light traffic . |
| 22 | Then he tried smiling back at the serious-faced child , for this must surely be a tease . |
| 23 | He wanted to roar out James 's name , his own name , to scream for help , he tried to pull up on the sill but his fingers scrabbled uselessly and he dropped back . |
| 24 | He tried to think back to the first Mystery he had seen , but he could only remember ‘ Eve ’ as that unshaven , white-skinned man who had left them outside the lock-up in Greathaven and gone to find work on the boats . |
| 25 | Ever a Walter Mitty character , he tried to get back into the CIA fold , but after the North fiasco they did not want to know him . |
| 26 | He tried to get back to the drawing room unheard , but she was waiting . |
| 27 | Hayes next hit Roger Ford just above the glove as he tried to get out of the way , and was out lbw ; 384 for 9 . |
| 28 | When he stopped to look back along the road , he saw two cars draw up in front of his home , one after the other . |
| 29 | In his first meeting with the TUC General Council in January 1942 , Beveridge rejected their suggestion for a retirement condition , saying ‘ I do not believe the old people leaving the labour market really create fresh employment ’ , but he promised to look further into the matter . |
| 30 | He 'd stepped out of the house at noon believing the woman he 'd left was devoted to him , and come home five hours later to find the house as it was now . |