Example sentences of "[pron] he [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The verdict It wants greasin ’ was repeated to the dealer ; but as he was a Suffolk man himself he summed up the situation in a moment . |
| 2 | On Nov. 19 , 1990 , Lini conducted a reshuffle in which he took over the portfolios of Civil Aviation and Tourism ; Energy ; Fisheries ; and Foreign Affairs . |
| 3 | He was badly injured when a rowing boat , which he took on the lake sank , because it had not been properly maintained by the Trust . |
| 4 | He says that he had considered many courses of action , this was one which he took on the spur of the moment . |
| 5 | DOWN 1 Do one in for equal wages ( 6 ) 2 Sprint up with lace undone in typical family ( 7 ) 3 Request he received from the British Empire ? ( 5 ) 4 Concentrating so in form for plans ( 10 ) 5 Queen that is raised for the country ( 4 ) 6 Peg holds this original drier ( 4–5 ) 7 Solvent with less substance ? ( 7 ) 8 Relative amount needed to be filthy , he said ( 6 ) 13 High fashion involving exercise with English lords ( 3,7 ) 15 Common sense about riot disorder and love of ill fame ( 9 ) 17 He went up to the city which went with the flow ( 7 ) 18 Fail to keep appointment with his comedy ? ( 5–2 ) 19 Prevents injection of energy for champion of prevention ( 6 ) 20 Keep alien in bad weather ( 6 ) 23 Make ten to five when you do it ( 5 ) 24 Strike one for chastity which he went Up the second time |
| 6 | All this happened because one of the escaped officers had kept a diary in which he wrote down the names of everyone who had helped him . |
| 7 | Mr Gillis was nick-named the Butcher because in summer he wore a white trilby hat which he hung on the back of the door of his tiny glass-walled office in the corridor just outside the gymnasium . |
| 8 | ‘ Any person who on any premises — as aforesaid , carries on an offensive trade without such consent , if any , as at the date of establishment of the trade was required by subsection ( 1 ) of this section … shall be liable for a fine not exceeding £5 for every day on which he carried on the trade — after receiving notice from the local authority to discontinue the trade ’ . |
| 9 | The council decide the policy but the official carries it out , and the way in which he carries out the instructions of the council is in accordance with his recognised professional skill and knowledge . |
| 10 | I recently read a paper by an industrialist I greatly admire , Sir Arnold Hall , in which he pointed out the enormous changes that have occurred in such mature manufacturing businesses as diesel engines , electrical transformers , and small electrical motors . |
| 11 | Mr. Cooper replied by letter on 9 May 1983 , in which he pointed out the absolute necessity that tenants of the dock company should not be disturbed at a later date and seeking clarification that the council would not seek in the terms of their letter of 31 March to draw a distinction between ‘ extremely detrimental ’ and detrimental . |
| 12 | By that time his feelings of resentment against his mother were fixed for life , and the imaginative intensity with which he called up the Devon landscape as a lost Eden of content had become a habit of mind . |
| 13 | Soon afterwards the headman came out of the inner room , carrying a plate of rice grains which he put on the ground beside him . |
| 14 | He he went out the channel went on the boat . |
| 15 | And the next morning when they get up Ruth makes his way into the town , and he goes to where all the , the men sit and they talk , the city gate , and there he he searches out the nearer relative of Ruth 's . |