Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though some people found him rather wrapped up in his thoughts , he always enjoyed talking to children about science . |
| 2 | She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole . |
| 3 | It was just too galling , seeing him all dressed up for someone else . |
| 4 | ‘ And his fellow directors do n't mind him just going off by himself without letting them know where he is ? |
| 5 | This must be him just coming in through the side door . |
| 6 | He guessed his mother was making it all up just to frighten him and to stop him ever going out of the house alone . |
| 7 | And him always bumming on to Derek about how he 'd taped the whole of Brideshead Revisited . |
| 8 | He followed her up to the bar and she heard him noisily latching on to Riley who , she was positive , would not buy him a drink . |
| 9 | He you could see him really took up to them . |
| 10 | Davis , of course , would have walked into England 's team in Poland a week on Wednesday ; until last season 's prolonged suspension , followed by injury , Bobby Robson had him firmly pencilled in as Bryan Robson 's replacement . |
| 11 | Jim had stomped downstairs wiping the blood off his face with a handkerchief and later it had been Jo and Lisa who had packed his bags and told him never to come back to the house . |
| 12 | I said let him bloody get on with it . |
| 13 | Aveling preferred actresses , but they were more difficult to locate once he left New York , and he rather looked down on what passed as theatre in America , although he admired Buffalo Bill 's Wild West Show . |
| 14 | The answer is an all-too-simple one : by the time he courageously signed on as a volunteer infantryman , John was in the terminal stages of consumption . |
| 15 | There was no more sound , so he slowly reversed back into the road as the Sturmabteilungen from the gate carne up to investigate . |
| 16 | Then , proudly and smiling , he slowly walked back for the presentation , his friends dancing round him patting him . |
| 17 | Two weeks ago he secretly flew back to Sarajevo to speak to 10-year-old Natasha Mihaljcic 's only surviving relative . |
| 18 | He eventually parachuted out of the aircraft and was arrested . |
| 19 | She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin . |
| 20 | At first they talked easily about David 's chances of demobilisation , and the kind of law he would practise when he eventually got back to London , and his prospects of fighting a reasonably safe seat at the next General Election , but inevitably that led on to Julia 's plans . |
| 21 | As I have heard from his crew , he baled out when he eventually got back to the south coast of England . |
| 22 | He eventually slumps back into his seat , his smarting face and aching eyes reminding him of the misled thought journey that took him back round to before where he started . |
| 23 | He eventually fell out with another pioneering figure in the study of distribution , the Manx naturalist Edward Forbes ( 1815–54 ) , who appropriated Watson 's provinces for his own very different study . |
| 24 | His career had an extraordinary culmination when he eventually turned up in Scotland and was appointed Royal Printer to James VI , afterwards James I of England . |
| 25 | He ended one weekend , which spanned marathons in Holland and Austria , hopelessly lost in Czechoslovakia , where he duly ran out of petrol . |
| 26 | It had and he duly got down in two more for another of his safe pars . |
| 27 | The SPA unanimously elected Kaysone Phomvihane , as the country 's new President , replacing Phoumi Vongvichit , who had served as President in an acting capacity since 1986 when he effectively took over from the ailing Souphanouvong [ see p. 35005 ] . |
| 28 | For just an instant she seemed to see right into his eyes , past the protective barrier that he instinctively put up against intruders . |
| 29 | In fact , he rarely came out of Bath and Wells , where he was proving a conscientious diocesan , predictably of a brisk administrative turn of mind . |
| 30 | He merely looked back at me in a rather peculiar silence . |