Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he came back from Livorno in the late summer of 1913 he made straight for the Café Rotonde , to be greeted rapturously by artists and models on the terrace . |
| 2 | He made straight for the big warhorse , mounted , said something to Will , and started along the street . |
| 3 | Yesterday , he said he ‘ forgot ’ about the trip which he made shortly after the break-up of his second marriage to Dr Who actress Janet Fielding . |
| 4 | My mother was so dazzled she never even thought to question him about his job , but she grew to live for the visits he made daily to the shop . |
| 5 | She always observed every move he made out of the corner of one eye , though , and if he stirred in any way , even just to stretch or yawn , she would immediately react and flex herself to take defensive action . |
| 6 | Since he made swiftly towards the forest , I had not much option but to follow . |
| 7 | His instincts , honed over the years as he lived continuously on the threshold of danger , warned him that things were about to change . |
| 8 | He lived right on the main road he was very vulnerable ! |
| 9 | In this way he even controverts the view that he lived up to the feared role of private sector financial disciplinarian when he brought qualified accountants for the first time into the head office . |
| 10 | He lived out in the country for a number of years , lived in poverty , erm , he thought about and he wrote about suicide . |
| 11 | He lived only in the present , caring nothing for the past or the future . |
| 12 | ‘ He plays more on the left hand side which is not my favourite position , I prefer to play on the right . |
| 13 | He does , he likes to get in the bedroom and , and he fiddles on with the erm |
| 14 | Yanto 's mind was busy as he meandered slowly through the leafy lanes towards Purton . |
| 15 | If Mountbatten failed in one item on his agenda , however , he succeeded triumphantly in the other . |
| 16 | Furthermore , when he checked back on the correlation between his simple lix values and the criterion of pooled estimates of difficulty , he found that the figure was 0.92 , which was exactly the same as that obtained from the multiple regression . |
| 17 | Collecting her ticket , she came up behind him again as he checked in for the flight . |
| 18 | Once at Frankfurt 's Rhine-Main airport he had collected the keys of a Golf Corbio from the Hertz desk and driven the twenty-four miles on the A66 to Mainz where he checked in at the Europa Hotel on Kaiserstrasse . |
| 19 | He stabbed angrily at the button . |
| 20 | He came back , and he had been very quick , with an umbrella from which , as he plunged in through the swing door , he was tearing the plastic wrapping . |
| 21 | He plunged headlong into the controversy over the architectural style for New Delhi , urging the imperial government to adopt the Mogul style for its new capital as a gesture of goodwill towards their Indian subjects . |
| 22 | Then he plunged off into the Britches to check the nest-boxes . |
| 23 | He skips over for the bloody |
| 24 | He limped over to the window , pulled the curtains across and looked down . |
| 25 | He limped out of the heather , sat on the stones and shook the wet from his fur . |
| 26 | SINCE he limped out of the Old Firm game on 2 January , Tony Mowbray has missed all of Celtic 's last 13 matches . |
| 27 | Shielding his eyes against the dust and heat with an upraised arm , he limped back to the corner and peered round . |
| 28 | He glowed now at the Archdeacon . |
| 29 | He drifts back towards the floor . |
| 30 | As he turns away from the grave ( symbolically as well as literally ) he meets , beside the yew-tree ( traditional symbol of death ) a Girl whose appearance is strikingly unusual . |