Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] [adv] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Watch me , ’ said Amiss , as at high speed he put on the clothes Pooley had just brought him . |
| 2 | In other words he opened up the circles , squares and longways sets to show what gave rhythm and life to the movements . |
| 3 | And Thucydides describes no sharper conflict than that between the aggressive Spartan Sthenelaidas ( i.86 ) and the more cautious King Archidamus ; for the supposedly more ‘ open ’ society of Athens he records only the views of Pericles and an anonymous delegation which does not contradict him . |
| 4 | In a subsequent article he sums up the reasons for de-industrialisation as follows : ‘ The most convincing explanation ’ , he writes , ‘ of progressive de-industrialisation in the U.K. is the weakening of the foreign trade sector with a slow growth of exports relative to other countries , and in relation to the propensity to import . ’ |
| 5 | For the next seventeen years he spent only the summers in Germany , saying of Albert , ‘ I love him as if he were my own son . ’ |
| 6 | The policy of austerity and a strong franc , which he had so staunchly defended for the best part of a decade ( and which had earned him such praise abroad ) , was being blamed within France for recession and for the record level of unemployment ( it broke through the symbolic 3m mark the day he handed over the reins of government ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Taking an envelope from his pocket he wrote down the names of his guests . |
| 9 | At each stop he noted down the shapes and stitch work of other traditional working men 's jumpers . |
| 10 | I 'd never heard such oratory , admiring the way he took on the hecklers . |
| 11 | He fills up the rivers he fills up the roads , like tentacles |
| 12 | The Doctor had filled his pockets with Dream B. He pulled out the rocks and placed them in small piles . |
| 13 | Ray Talbot 's remedy is a ten-minute dip in a salt bath ( 11 gallons of water to one kilo of salt , with aeration ) during which time he breaks open the lesions with his thumbnail . |
| 14 | On 2nd & 3rd June he put up the drawings . |