Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb past] [adv] the [noun] " 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 | The Empress was in great beauty … the Emperor also looked very impressive , and when after the ceremony he held up the child in his arms to present him to the multitude , the enthusiasm was genuine and great . |
| 3 | Brushing aside our thanks he asked when the anniversary was . |
| 4 | In other words he opened up the circles , squares and longways sets to show what gave rhythm and life to the movements . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Football is a drama of extremes , and in the case of Jimmy Johnstone he became both the partner and victim of drink . |
| 7 | Robin adds that as a boy he saw both the Graf Zeppelin and R–101 , obviously an enthusiast from an early age . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | But he also knew the moment he threw away the shotgun , he was also throwing away his last hope of survival . |
| 10 | As Polly took his place he started down the companionway . |
| 11 | When he caught up with the spectators following the last match he picked up the information that had filtered back through the crowd 's grapevine . |
| 12 | 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 . ’ |
| 13 | 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 ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | For nearly half a mile he went back the way he had come , only to become more lost and confused than before . |
| 16 | Layton put it somewhat differently when he added that ‘ the two great qualities a young writer has are his arrogance and inexperience , ’ and on another occasion he picked out the twin characteristics of ‘ precocity and independence . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Sombre , though with a pacy , filmic sequencing he whipped up the orchestra to a marvellously stylish finale . |
| 20 | Despite the opposition of his father he took up the study of medicine , first at Leipzig University and then in Vienna , where his funds ran out , forcing him to take employment for a time with the Governor of Transylvania until he had accumulated sufficient money to continue his studies . |
| 21 | In the morning he picked up the van in Hilderbridge and drove to Jackley the long way round through Byss , having a newly upholstered chaise longue to deliver before he made the Jackley collection . |
| 22 | Early in his career he turned down the title role in David Lean 's Lawrence of Arabia ( eventually played by Peter O'Toole ) after producer Sam Speigel insisted he sign a long-term picture deal . |
| 23 | Taking an envelope from his pocket he wrote down the names of his guests . |
| 24 | Otis Ferguson had immediately spotted the flair of Capra and in reviewing his next film Broadway Bill he spelt out the lesson that Hollywood was rapidly learning : |
| 25 | When his mother knocked on the door he pulled up the sheet . |
| 26 | Strangely enough , though , when he left Oxford he wound up the business and joined the Navy , despite the fact that he could have lived handsomely off his investments . |
| 27 | He spent as long as he could going round the Smoking Room at a snail 's pace , cleaning clean ashtrays and polishing polished tables , and when summoned once or twice to wait on other members he dragged out the process of serving them for an inordinate length of time . |
| 28 | Sitting down opposite without a word he picked up the glass and emptied the contents down his throat . |
| 29 | On hearing my voice he put down the phone . |
| 30 | The ‘ sloshed ’ friend broke his ankle so as a good turn he took over the driving . |