Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I suppose he made me out to be some kind of thief ! |
| 2 | He made himself over by taking up body-building in the Scottish style — which is long and lean rather than pillows of bulk — and changed his name from Thomas to Sean ( in Edinburgh , he 's still universally known as ‘ Big Tam ’ ) . |
| 3 | It must have been then , in a final flush of family feeling , that he made everything over to Nigel . ’ |
| 4 | Somehow , he made it through to the end . |
| 5 | It had been a long day for him already , and if he made it back before nine he was going to be lucky . |
| 6 | He lowered himself on to the toilet seat and jumped down on to the floor . |
| 7 | Shaking his big head slowly he lowered himself on to the chaise-longue and sat back carefully . |
| 8 | He lowered himself on to her breasts and she moaned as he held himself up on his elbows and barely allowed himself to touch her , his hard chest sliding lightly back and forth over the aching tenderness of her bosom . |
| 9 | He lowered himself on to the sofa and unzipped the top of his leather suit . |
| 10 | He lowered himself down to the bed and her hands frantically flew to his bare chest . |
| 11 | ‘ What 's he flashing it around for , then ? ’ |
| 12 | But he laid her down on the horsehair sofa , and said Mrs Patten would not be in yet , and there was time ; and time there was , and what had happened last night was repeated , once and then again , until she , flushed and dishevelled , pulled down her dress , and said ‘ She is coming . |
| 13 | He laid them out on Stephen 's desk and did his best to smooth them flat . |
| 14 | He laid them out on the desk , got a plastic bag out of the bottom drawer of the filing cabinet and swept all the bits and pieces into it . |
| 15 | He laid it down on a rock and plunged his arm in the sack once more . |
| 16 | One by one he checked them off on his register , letting them stagger out into the corridor where the ghouls who liked disasters were already forming a pressing crowd . |
| 17 | And he signs himself off from systematic criticism . |
| 18 | He stuffed it back under his arm , marched off to the left past the heavy black stoves , through their radiated heat . |
| 19 | He pinned her down at the CI5 computer centre , and over the phone briefly explained what he and Doyle needed of her . |
| 20 | The big clubs were watching from the stands at the Manor and Joey could well become a top transfer target if he turns it on like this . |
| 21 | Although Mr Smith welcomed the ‘ considerable potential ’ of the register , he ruled it out as an alternative to removing the unions ' constitutional influence outright . |
| 22 | Rodney went up and Siobhan reached Tamara down to him and he passed her on to me . |
| 23 | He passed her by without a glance , but she could feel the cold waves of antipathy issuing from him , and shivered . |
| 24 | He passed them on to another colleague who led us finally to our places which were kept for us in the Grand Salon . |
| 25 | He passed it on to the others at their dinner time meeting . |
| 26 | The solution was simple : he passed it on to his son . |
| 27 | Robert 's own Christian name , as we know , had come from his maternal grandfather , Robert Hasted , and he passed it on to his second child , Robert Edward ; thereafter the same name would continue in that branch of the family until well into the 20th century . |
| 28 | Count Geoffrey , by concentrating his forces on the conquest of Normandy , was able to recover the continental part of his wife 's inheritance by 1144 , and in 1150 he passed it on to his eldest son Henry Plantagenet , now twenty years old . |
| 29 | He passed it on to Winston . |
| 30 | So he sold it on to a this kid and it was up Baxters |