Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he said these words he remembered again the vow he had made to the powers of Callanish which was that he would let Minch go before him . |
| 2 | Football is a drama of extremes , and in the case of Jimmy Johnstone he became both the partner and victim of drink . |
| 3 | Robin adds that as a boy he saw both the Graf Zeppelin and R–101 , obviously an enthusiast from an early age . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For a brief moment he experienced again the exhilaration he had felt on the plain late the previous day when he dropped a big red banteng bull with a single shot from nearly two hundred yards . |
| 6 | But he also knew the moment he threw away the shotgun , he was also throwing away his last hope of survival . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | When she asked him if he would come with her to see Joanne he put forward the excuse of having his article to write , so Lyn went with Kevin . |
| 9 | After a while he became more the professor than the professor was himself — just by observing the distinguished man and taking his being into and upon himself … yes , I have never forgotten that . |
| 10 | So after a week he takes away the bandage , removes the bit of radium , sure enough there 's a bright red radiation burn on his forearm but apart from that he feels fine , he does n't feel ill , he obviously has n't died , er so he said well I 'll leave that for a few weeks and monitor my , my health and see if there 's any long term affects from this exposure to , to radiation . |
| 11 | When he asked the new tsar to give land to the peasants he made plain the other . |
| 12 | Since 1770 there was a brewer selling ale near an oak tree in the parish , but for a century he had only the company of a blacksmith and a boot and shoe maker . |
| 13 | In others he finds both the impulse to self-sacrifice , and their masculinity , quite complex ( p. 124 ) . |
| 14 | You may think this is way over the top , but by the time he gets there the reader , if he believes ( as I do ) in Keneally 's veracity , will have experienced the same emotion . |
| 15 | 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 . |