Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " 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 | But I cooled him out and he agreed to come along to a new rehearsal place that we 'd found , The Rose And Crown in Wandsworth . |
| 5 | He was an experienced member of a well-drilled team , but was killed when he became tangled up with a colleague . |
| 6 | Entranced by the aphrodisiacs in his prawn cocktail , McAvennie began to visit his new girl every weekend , flying to the London nightlife and eventually provoking a dispute with Celtic manager Billy McNeill when he failed to show up for a Monday morning training session . |
| 7 | He failed to show up for the match amidst rumours that he had resigned as West Ham 's manager . |
| 8 | Most probably he got waffling on in the Royal Oak and that . |
| 9 | I think that it was when he got turned down for the job of a bus conductor . |
| 10 | Heading south he got beaten up by the Miami cops for having long hair . |
| 11 | He got run over by an articulated lorry . |
| 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 | ‘ Well , ’ Yanto began hastily , ‘ I was told he got pinned down for a week in no-man 's land during the battle of the Somme in 1916 . |
| 19 | " 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 . |
| 20 | ‘ He tried to set up as a fridge and freezer engineer , but that did n't work . |
| 21 | Then he tried smiling back at the serious-faced child , for this must surely be a tease . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He tried to get back to the drawing room unheard , but she was waiting . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Every now and then he stopped to peer out through a slit in the tent wall arid check that Jacques Devraux was still seated with the American hunting party at the table in the canter of the clearing . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 30 | By the time that he 'd stepped out of the kitchen and into the main hall , he 'd lost her . |