Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many may have felt betrayed , but there is little to suggest that MacDonald was any the less of a socialist than others , nor is there hard evidence to suggest that he schemed to bring about the collapse of the Labour government . |
| 2 | Gould would also be reunited with Natty and Jemmy , who he planned to take on the Namoi expedition . |
| 3 | I can even remember when Finnegans Wake was thought to be incomprehensible and the gentleman sitting on my right , George Craig , is almost , but not quite , my contemporary at this university and I was genuinely delighted when he agreed to take on the herculean task of giving a lecture a centenary lecture on James Joyce . |
| 4 | ‘ Ca n't be done , ’ she said , feeling shamed by the look of despair on his face , and worse still as he fought to bring back the blankness to cover it . |
| 5 | At the time he expected to touch down the aircraft suddenly ‘ pulled down to his left ’ , he felt the back of the aircraft buckle and was aware of debris coming through the canopy . |
| 6 | Bigwig he asked to bring up the rear . |
| 7 | Oh we used to have phosphate and sulphur , potash , coal , granite you name it anything , general cargo we 've had , loaded everything , even dead bodies , we sent , there was one young , one young person , he got drowned up the coast there and they and he had to go back to Holland and they brought that from out the warehouse and put it on the stern of our ship , his coffin , they sent that back and they erm export er pigs to Poland , all live pigs , pedigree pigs . |
| 8 | He got sold down the line . |
| 9 | In her motherly concerned way , she was cosseting him as he tried to pick up the pieces of his life . |
| 10 | When his father , frustrated after years as a POW , returned , he tried to lay down the law . |
| 11 | He tried to set up the League of Princes , an international peace-keeping force aimed primarily against the Turks , and the exhibition shows the route of the journeys he made to other countries to promote the idea . |
| 12 | He tried to open out the conversation . |
| 13 | The agent hesitated as he tried to read out the name of the Russian ship from the bill of laden in his hand . |
| 14 | With everyone else gone Tonks had to fend for himself so he tried to find out the truth . |
| 15 | First he scratched away the plaster , then he tried to pull out the bricks . |
| 16 | He tried to straighten out the brim but it had been curled and folded so often it was beyond repair . |
| 17 | He tried to sniff back the wetness that had sprung to his eyes , but a few hot tears managed to spill over and course down his burning cheeks . |
| 18 | He tried to break down the father-role position doctors held , so the patients could feel more relaxed and see him almost as an equal . |
| 19 | He tried to cover up the flutter of surprise by leaning forward and telling the driver it was time to return to New Scotland Yard . |
| 20 | In this post he helped to build up the airship service into a major weapon in the war at sea . |
| 21 | He helped set up the Troops Out movement which campaigned for withdrawal of the British army from Northern Ireland . |
| 22 | The man had his back to her until he stopped to lift up the smaller of the two girls . |
| 23 | Jackson Chatterton stirred as though he proposed to clean up the mess himself , but I waved him down and kept my eyes on Rickie . |
| 24 | He bent to pick up the curl of hair , which he put carefully in his pocket , next to his heart . |
| 25 | He bent to pick up the card he 'd been carrying then scowled at the deserted foyer . |
| 26 | He yearned to gulp down the coffee that remained , he craved to ask for more . |
| 27 | Did that mean she actually did have a choice , that he 'd given up the idea of evicting her ? |
| 28 | But this was said after he 'd hung up the phone . |
| 29 | As soon as he 'd hung up the phone , he gathered up the toys and slung them , Hamleys bag and all , under the bed . |
| 30 | Earlier that very week , in fact , as he 'd filled up the Jaguar with Gulf-inflated gasoline , he 'd found himself surveying the display of the semi-pornographic magazines arranged along the highest shelf above the dailies ; and re-acquainted himself with such reasonably familiar titles as Men Only , Escort , Knave , Video XXXX , and so many others , each of them enticing the susceptible motorist with its cover of some provocatively posed woman , vast-breasted and voluptuous . |