Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] he [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time it proved to be the tunnel 's end , and as he drew nearer he saw the shadowy outline of a ladder etched against the concrete . |
| 2 | The officer or warden should describe how he gave the necessary signal , e.g. ‘ I raised my right arm with the palm of my hand facing the defendant . |
| 3 | Of Breavman ( his alter ego ) he states , ‘ He did n't know why he hated the careful diagrams and coloured plates . |
| 4 | Looking down he saw the final fearful act of that day . |
| 5 | He sent me into the pub to have a drink , and when I came out he had the two back shoes on . |
| 6 | Here he describes how he took the Caribbean by storm |
| 7 | As he came closer he saw the old Georgian mansion was illuminated with lights in all the windows . |
| 8 | He showed how he planted the young trees in pot-holes where the soil was richer and she saw that after all there was nothing haphazard about the planting ; it had the symmetry of necessity . |
| 9 | Watch how he scored the second — and that 's 3 goals in 3 games . |
| 10 | It could offer opportunities for embarrassing independent lords , as Alphonse Jourdain of Toulouse showed when he assisted the rebellious inhabitants of Montpellier against William VI ; but his own financial losses when the right to take tallage or forced loans from Toulouse escaped his grasp in 1147 , outweighed any advantage elsewhere . |
| 11 | I think I can understand why he chose the 18th century . |
| 12 | remember when he hit the first stone and hit that car window |
| 13 | In doing so he voiced the main concern of all the watchful parties : the risk that control through physical restraint may emerge as common practice over the use of counselling . |
| 14 | Law was bound to give way but in doing so he sacrificed the only positive policy he had . |
| 15 | I later recorded he invariably used the idea of an ‘ escape from real work ’ to describe any research secondment ; in doing so he embodied the common institutional fear of uncontrolled social movement across a divide or boundary into another society such as academia . |
| 16 | In doing so he lost the only friends he had here in Paris , such as they were . |
| 17 | To understand Bukharin 's particular views on the transition period to socialism it is necessary to understand how he viewed the then current stage of capitalist development . |
| 18 | As the ground drifted up he saw the barbarian standing stock still , chest heaving , arms hanging loosely by his sides . |
| 19 | He knew how he wanted the last scene to look . |
| 20 | Edward , leaden with gloom , waited for the kettle to boil ; as he did so he watched the steady progress of a wood-louse across the wall behind the sink . |
| 21 | Maybe Nevil lived here , but if he did , why did n't he used the front door ? |
| 22 | ‘ Which still does n't explain why he dumped the one person who knows how to ride Shine On . ’ |
| 23 | He said later he saw the 109s and took off for home . |
| 24 | But Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd said today he thought the Tory leadership would win , though he admitted it would be close . |
| 25 | He said it was important that the pace of change was ‘ right ’ but refused to say when he expected the last of the doomed homes to say goodbye to its last resident . |
| 26 | Before he sat down he kissed the two women , first on the cheek , then on the lips . |
| 27 | To illustrate the problem , and explain why he saw the whole business in gladiatorial terms as a contest resulting in victory over a subdued female Nature , one that became the opposite of what it seemed , docile and yielding instead of cold and repelling , he invoked the example of Shakespeare . |
| 28 | Who knows why he attacked the young constable ? |