Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He fell forward , as a result of which there was a crowd surge and the people in front of him stumbled down the terraces . |
| 3 | ‘ We were a player short and he made up the numbers for us . ’ |
| 4 | When Kevin O'Reilly , who runs the only pharmacy in Ederney , returned to the province , he made up the product for one psoriasis victim . |
| 5 | She could hear Penry moving about upstairs as he made up the other bed . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Carson hoped not , as he made out the shape of something like Liawski 's diaries over by the skirting board of the opposite wall . |
| 8 | He made out the black shape of another tunnel mouth . |
| 9 | Then he made out the thousands of tiny rings that studded the ceiling . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He laid down the letter at breakfast with a white face . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He laid out the newspaper on the carpet and stripped off the bowl 's clingfilm covering . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Without waiting for the others he plunged down the bank into the stream , slipping and slithering heedlessly over the protruding roots and rocks . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He ruled out the idea of travelling just as batsman . |
| 18 | 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 " . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He passed down the gallery , the sound growing fainter . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | As he rode down the narrow goat-trails of the Khyber Pass , Battuta would have known that the Delhi Sultanate was violent frontier country , constantly in a state of war with the pagan Mongols to the north and the infidel Hindus to the south . |
| 23 | He whipped up the back of her skirt , and kneaded the cheeks of her knickered bum with one enormous hand . |
| 24 | Sombre , though with a pacy , filmic sequencing he whipped up the orchestra to a marvellously stylish finale . |
| 25 | On the cover of his ‘ Gunfighter Ballads ’ album , he donned cowboy gear ; for his ‘ Bitter Tears ( Songs Of The American Indian ) ’ LP he got feathers in his hair ; and for ‘ America ’ , he whipped out the flag . |
| 26 | He whipped back the covers and moved her into bed as if she were a doll , watching her for a second and then turning away . |
| 27 | He fought back the word ‘ sorry ’ , which was threatening to erupt for the third time . |
| 28 | His eyes watered so fiercely that tears ran down his cheeks , but he fought down the choking sensation and his self-esteem soared . |
| 29 | He found himself hovering for a dangerous moment between pity and fear and he fought down the pity at once , for it was not to be thought of that he should feel such an emotion for this evil being . |
| 30 | Graham asked casually as he zipped up the holdall . |