Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But why should Joe Maitland do that if 'e went ter the fights 'imself ? ’ |
| 2 | Leith swallowed hard , and knew , before the weakness of loving him , the weakness of wanting him battered down the rest of her defences , small though those defences were , that she had to appeal to that in him which she somehow knew would make him hate himself if he took her . |
| 3 | He fell forward , as a result of which there was a crowd surge and the people in front of him stumbled down the terraces . |
| 4 | This for him highlighted both the frightfulness of war and the ineptitude of the governing classes . |
| 5 | ‘ We were a player short and he made up the numbers for us . ’ |
| 6 | When Kevin O'Reilly , who runs the only pharmacy in Ederney , returned to the province , he made up the product for one psoriasis victim . |
| 7 | She could hear Penry moving about upstairs as he made up the other bed . |
| 8 | When he asked the new tsar to give land to the peasants he made plain the other . |
| 9 | He made fast the rope round Trent 's neck to the handhold beside the companionway leading down to the head in the port hull . |
| 10 | He made out the high-backed chair to one side of the fire and sank into it , sitting tall and erect , careful not to crease his dinner jacket . |
| 11 | Carson hoped not , as he made out the shape of something like Liawski 's diaries over by the skirting board of the opposite wall . |
| 12 | He made out the black shape of another tunnel mouth . |
| 13 | Then he made out the thousands of tiny rings that studded the ceiling . |
| 14 | By night he lived out the fantasies he had internalised from avidly watching his collection of over 6,000 slasher videos and pornographic manga comic-books . |
| 15 | Allan said when he realised how the football disaster , which claimed 95 lives , had left his son . |
| 16 | He stopped short of understanding Christianity because when he thought about that , he laid aside the receptive imagination with which he allowed himself to appreciate myth and became rigidly narrow and empiricist . |
| 17 | He laid down the letter at breakfast with a white face . |
| 18 | He laid out the argument : the Mirror had gone to Maxwell and dived downmarket , along with its Sunday counterpart ; the Mail on Sunday was repositioning itself after its disastrous launch , but had still not recovered . |
| 19 | He laid out the newspaper on the carpet and stripped off the bowl 's clingfilm covering . |
| 20 | Mosley 's turn to political anti-semitism was signalled by his Albert Hall meeting in October 1934 when he attacked both the ‘ big ’ Jews who were seen as a threat to the nation 's economy and the ‘ little ’ Jews who allegedly swamped the cultural identity of localities where they settled . |
| 21 | He attacked both the British and the Russians for their " imperialist " policies in Iran and called for a free , independent Iran with a constitutional monarchy . |
| 22 | He plunged up the embankment , taking a grateful breath of fresh air , then turned and extended a large imperative hand to Catherine Crane and pulled her up beside him . |
| 23 | Without waiting for the others he plunged down the bank into the stream , slipping and slithering heedlessly over the protruding roots and rocks . |
| 24 | Mr Rabin said he favoured allowing some deportees to join the Palestinian delegation , but he ruled out the two deportees on the reported Egyptian list because they were PLO officials . |
| 25 | He ruled out the idea of travelling just as batsman . |
| 26 | He ruled out the deployment of ECOMOG in areas under his control , arguing that this " amounted to the abandonment of Liberia 's sovereignty to a foreign force controlled by a military command " . |
| 27 | For a brief moment he experienced again the exhilaration he had felt on the plain late the previous day when he dropped a big red banteng bull with a single shot from nearly two hundred yards . |
| 28 | He began to recite a litany of his own successes to himself as he passed down the quiet , thickly carpeted corridors to the executive lift that went up to the eighteenth floor : a new apartment in the smart suburb of Beauséjour ; a smaller apartment in Montparnasse , with a most accommodating young mistress ; two cars , one the largest and latest registration Citroën Familiale ; a generous expense account , which was not queried too closely — he hoped was not queried too closely . |
| 29 | He passed down the gallery , the sound growing fainter . |
| 30 | He saw something erm he saw a cat and he zoomed out the front door and he was gone and it 's only when he lost sight of the cat he thought about where he was |