Example sentences of "he [vb mod] [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Accept her cold rebuffs without anger or impatience ; be there for her as best he might in the fond hope that this dreary rain must cease , that Spring must come again , and she might wake one day to that glorious span of light across the water-meadows . |
| 2 | In 1920 , for example , the notoriously rotund producer G. B. Samuelson made a trip to Universal Studios , where he produced six pictures to learn what he could about the American way of doing things . |
| 3 | A protesting Maltote was roused and ordered to ride as fast as he could to the royal camp outside Bedford . |
| 4 | He moved as quietly as he could towards the connecting door , grasped the handle and with a single movement flung the door open . |
| 5 | ‘ I will go up to the roof , just remember though to tell them to send a ladder up there ’ said Ralph ‘ Take the child with you and hurry ’ And with that Carter ran as fast as he could through the dark air with the lady and child and before long he was out Ralph 's sight . |
| 6 | So he lay hunched on the floor of the saloon and breathed as best he could through the thick hood . |