Example sentences of "[verb] he [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was in his adopted position of right-back that Paul gained two England Under 21 caps and he is one of only a handful of players who have appeared for the Palace in ten post-war seasons , while his 319 games for the club place him firmly in the top five all-time appearances for us . |
| 2 | At a PEN Canada benefit event in Toronto last month , Salman Rushdie was cordially embraced by the Ontario Premier Bob Rae , the first government leader to meet him publicly since the Iranian fatwa . |
| 3 | He grappled with Slatter , tearing him away from the motionless body . |
| 4 | The man ducked , weaving to his left so that Trent 's fist caught him high on the right cheek . |
| 5 | Botham had the first six wickets before Marshall and Baptiste held him up for while , Marshall being lucky not to be on the wrong end of a legendary catch when Don Topley , a groundstaff boy who went on to play for Essex , brilliantly caught him one-handed on the square leg boundary , only to put one foot over the rope . |
| 6 | As I understood , he was asleep for much of the time , and indeed , I found him so on the few occasions I had a spare moment to ascend to that little attic room . |
| 7 | I beat him once in the 1988 Olympics and I know I can beat him again . ’ |
| 8 | He left a Will which places him firmly in the central Anglican tradition : |
| 9 | But Fidway 's Cheltenham supporters can also claim a little bad luck — the winner Royal Gait bumped him just after the final flight . |
| 10 | So to impress him I told him briefly of the four stages of polio — first the porodomal , second the muscle pain , then the period of muscle destruction which usually took no longer than fourteen days , and finally the period of repair . |
| 11 | Nicky Henderson 's Wont Be Gone Long ( 2.20 ) has top weight but is not badly treated considering he beat Lockwood Prince by 15 lengths at Chepstow last May and meets him here on the same terms . |
| 12 | Nicky Henderson 's Wont Be Gone Long ( 2.20 ) has top weight but is not badly treated considering he beat Lockwood Prince by 15 lengths at Chepstow last May and meets him here on the same terms . |
| 13 | His petty-bourgeois family background , his status as an intellectual conversant with the rites of bourgeois education , values and culture , his sophisticated literary and critical talents as a writer , all conspired to set him apart from the communist party leadership and rank and file members alike . |
| 14 | His aunt recognised him immediately as the well-known local ‘ drug squad ’ detective . |
| 15 | Before he could do anything more another wave lifted him high into the foam-filled wind , then dizzyingly dropped him down into a hole in the ocean . |
| 16 | His climbing achievements are many , but it is his attempts on Everest which have lodged him firmly in the public consciousness . |
| 17 | He had seen him only in the dense fog . |
| 18 | The wrong turns provide additional boundaries and constraints as the exercise proceeds , leading him ultimately to the same goal . |
| 19 | She had not killed him , she was leading him away from the open mouth of the cave and towards the distant city . |
| 20 | ‘ I know what a hotel is , ’ she snapped , pulling him outside into the fresh air , ‘ but — ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Rather than selling him , we are about to offer James a new and extended contract which will keep him here for the next two or three years . ’ |
| 22 | Impulses of attraction towards beautiful forms or faces troubled him frequently for the next two years at Oxford . |
| 23 | He caught a glimpse of the fair hair and saw that she was talking to someone he recognised as the drummer from the band ; the whole group was there , giving an impromptu concert on tin whistles to the tired hikers sleeping on their rucksacks undaunted by the howl and shriek of the space-invader machines on the other side , a cacophony of mechanical rage that deafened him together with the thin notes of a rebel song . |
| 24 | And there were some flats were n't there with the with Tommy on the w er Philip , that 's right , Tommy on one day and he , that pub , he picked a bloke up and threw him straight through the bloody pub window . |
| 25 | Were I to tell that story to my own son and tell him too of the subsequent shame and guilt that haunted me for months and is still so deeply etched in my memory , he would laugh and wonder what it was all about . |
| 26 | We remember him most as the best diver ever to grace the Gorbals swimming pond . |
| 27 | Then he heard her , calling him softly from the far side of the pagoda . |
| 28 | His honest , square-jawed and faintly familiar face served him well in the real estate business . |
| 29 | Pound , following a polemical strategy which served him well in the short run ( but which later back-fired ) deliberately provoked the academic classicists of his day ; and his use of his sources , classical and other , was always both hasty and high-handed . |
| 30 | It was important not to remember how Nuadu had looked in those last moments , defiant and unafraid , his head thrown back as the Robemaker had dragged him forward by the vicious crimson rope-lights . |