Example sentences of "he wander [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't listen to the sales talk , he wandered slowly through the rooms , aware that Mary Rose was showing far too much enthusiasm if he was going to knock the price down . |
| 2 | Embarrassed by his lack of courage , he wandered forlornly about the town , finding in an old church a copy of Titian 's ‘ Burial of Christ ’ that might have been done by Breton . |
| 3 | He watched them go off hand in hand , and then he wandered away across the quarry , heading for the old manager 's office . |
| 4 | And he wandered away down the path , leaving the groups walking together , approaching only the single ones , keeping a wary eye open for the police who occasionally patrolled unexpectedly . |
| 5 | He wandered over to the draining-board and looked into a jug . |
| 6 | He wandered over to the door . |
| 7 | He wandered over to the table . |
| 8 | With a tired shrug , he wandered over to the window and stared out at the grounds . |
| 9 | He wandered over to the far wall . |
| 10 | Finally he wandered through into the kitchen , pulled off his jacket and draped it over the back of a chair . |
| 11 | He wandered up to the logging camp on his eighteenth birthday and enthusiastically asked for a job . |
| 12 | He wandered crossly around the tree , kicking up dead needles . |
| 13 | Whereupon he wandered on to the stage carrying a 12-foot ladder he repeatedly threatened to climb . |
| 14 | Leaving Murti Lāl at the hut to guard the lambs , he wandered off into the mist , whistling to the sheep as he steered them up across the bare rock face to a higher plateau , where the ground was marshy and the grass coarse and wiry and spiked with reeds . |
| 15 | He wandered off into the shadow , his head tilted backwards . |
| 16 | For whole days he wandered off to the cafés and bars in a stand to assert his independence . |
| 17 | He wandered off round the room , looking at himself in the mirrors and pulling faces and laughing . |
| 18 | ‘ In the Greshorns he wandered alone through the passes , climbed the peaks and was exhausted by the journey . |
| 19 | HARRY DEAN STANTON once told me that during the filming of 1984 's Paris , Texas , he wandered alone into the desert after a tiff with the director , Wim Wenders . |
| 20 | One Sunday evening in 1942 he wandered aimlessly into the old Memorial Church . |
| 21 | He wandered out of the village and up the mountain , weeping and wondering what he could possibly do . |
| 22 | And he wandered out of the village and up the wild mountain , with tears running down his cheeks . |
| 23 | Slowly , still rereading the note and still working on his teeth , he wandered out of the room . |
| 24 | An hour after noon he wandered out of the room he shared with Bessie 's children and went into the kitchen , where he splashed water on his face . |
| 25 | He wandered out into the kitchen and took a pint of milk from the fridge , supping straight from the bottle . |
| 26 | As Carson waited for Alison he wandered across to the kiosk , the floor was wet from swabbing down , and there was a faint smell of disinfectant rising from the glistening vinyl . |
| 27 | ( He wanders upstage towards the exit . ) |