Example sentences of "[verb] he [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Justin says he ran for the first bit and now has a big blister |
| 2 | Another of the veterans , Col Oleg Nechiporenko , a Latin American specialist , promises to shed new light on Lee Harvey Oswald , whom he says he met at the Soviet Embassy in Mexico City two months before the assassination of President Kennedy . |
| 3 | DOWN 1 Do one in for equal wages ( 6 ) 2 Sprint up with lace undone in typical family ( 7 ) 3 Request he received from the British Empire ? ( 5 ) 4 Concentrating so in form for plans ( 10 ) 5 Queen that is raised for the country ( 4 ) 6 Peg holds this original drier ( 4–5 ) 7 Solvent with less substance ? ( 7 ) 8 Relative amount needed to be filthy , he said ( 6 ) 13 High fashion involving exercise with English lords ( 3,7 ) 15 Common sense about riot disorder and love of ill fame ( 9 ) 17 He went up to the city which went with the flow ( 7 ) 18 Fail to keep appointment with his comedy ? ( 5–2 ) 19 Prevents injection of energy for champion of prevention ( 6 ) 20 Keep alien in bad weather ( 6 ) 23 Make ten to five when you do it ( 5 ) 24 Strike one for chastity which he went Up the second time |
| 4 | Between takes he waited outside the main hall with a helper to wipe his glasses for him in the close summer heat . |
| 5 | While he waited for the bath to fill he went through the whole scene again in his head and congratulated himself for staying so calm . |
| 6 | And so saying he went into the tiny village police station with its distinctive blue lamp and the lettering chiselled into the stone above the doorway which said ‘ King 's Magnum Parva Police Station ’ . |
| 7 | Supporters of Mr Paul Davies , his chief opponent , believe he won on the second ballot . |
| 8 | Erm the other thing that , that I could n't quite hear but I thought when you were asking him about where he 'd been with the navy , I thought he said to the Far East unfortunately . |
| 9 | well certainly I believe Mr he , I do n't think he went into the same detail as Mr I , but Mr certainly left me the impression that some at least of the brochures were , went into more than one addition , yes |
| 10 | Erm , what do you think he wrote on the other side of that bit of paper in front of you . |
| 11 | Sir Fulke 's honesty in admitting he walked on the frozen moat saved him from suspicion . |
| 12 | After graduating he moved to the Royal Holloway College to research a Ph.D . |
| 13 | He had truly been a contender for the middleweight title until the severe chest wound he sustained during the heavy fighting in France had cut short his promising career . |
| 14 | He said he wrote to the former Beatle about the problem but had not had a reply . |
| 15 | Bismarck said he sympathised with the Polish position , but nevertheless believed that Germanisation meant the Poles would be emancipated and enriched by contact with German language and culture . |
| 16 | Sherek recalled how nervous and agitated he seemed at the first reading with the actors — just as he had been when he had first shown the play to Sherek . |
| 17 | ‘ And yet he claims he walked on the frozen moat this morning before our arrival . ’ |