Example sentences of "[adj] he [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And very much more recently , Lord Shuttleworth who is the chairman of the rural development commission , and this he said actually on the sixteenth of November this year , said , There is a severe lack of affordable housing in the countryside which obviously does n't improve the situation . |
| 2 | ‘ No , this he threw back into the bushes when it snapped and turned in his hand . |
| 3 | In July 1338 he went abroad to the Low Countries with Edward , dying there 10 March 1340 . |
| 4 | When it was dark he cycled back to the farm again . |
| 5 | In 1621 he spoke out against the patentee , Sir Giles Mompesson [ q.v. ] , and the popish threat to the Palatinate ; and in 1629 delivered a notable attack on the influence of the king 's Arminian advisers . |
| 6 | From 1910 to 1924 he lectured regularly at the school of civic design , Liverpool University . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm glad he spoke up about the shooting on the river before he collapsed again , ’ said Coffin soberly . |
| 8 | In 565 he came down from the islands to try and convert a Pictish king . |
| 9 | In 1921 he went on to the Technical College at Bandung , founded only the previous year . |
| 10 | He says someone called at her house at noon yesterday , and its likely he returned later with the robbers . |
| 11 | Every day John and his mum go over his schoolwork to make sure he keeps up with the rest of the class . |
| 12 | When Coffin got back to his own flat , all he found there in the way of post was an enigmatic postcard from his sister Laetitia : she had sent him a view of Edinburgh from the air , with a message scribbled on the back : I am going to the law . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | He walked quickly down the road anxious that he was not late he walked quickly down the road anxious that anxious he anxious |
| 15 | When he came back from Livorno in the late summer of 1913 he made straight for the Café Rotonde , to be greeted rapturously by artists and models on the terrace . |
| 16 | At seven-thirty he got out of the car with a flashlight and pushed through the undergrowth to a nearby stream . |
| 17 | As far as his cock was concerned he felt somewhat in the position of a toddler trying to fly a kite . |
| 18 | What about those he left out of the opening shots ? |
| 19 | When Richard duke of Gloucester seized the throne in 1483 he did so at the head of the largest noble affinity of its day . |
| 20 | When Richard duke of Gloucester seized the throne in 1483 he did so at the head of the largest noble affinity of its day . |
| 21 | At half-past five he leant closer to the window and strained to see into the flat opposite . |
| 22 | Between 1983 and 1987 he served successively in the government whips ' office and at the Department of Health and Social Security , entering the Cabinet in the latter year as Chief Secretary to the Treasury [ see pp. 35271-72 ] ; after briefly holding the post of Foreign and Commonwealth Secretary in mid-1989 [ see p. 36819 ] , he became Chancellor of the Exchequer in October 1989 following the sudden resignation of Lawson [ see pp. 36982-83 ] . |
| 23 | Finally about quarter to eight he shoots through to the other room and finds Dick and Joy Hardy there , they were supposed to be picking Gwen up and bringing her round . |
| 24 | In 1771 he preached also at the flourishing society of Derryanville and at Kilmoriarty there was the largest congregation he had seen during the week . |
| 25 | After that he went back to the offices to receive details of his next step . |
| 26 | With that he went off down the bank as though all the hounds of hell were after him . |
| 27 | After that he turned away from the bed , picked up his jacket which Irina had dropped on the floor , began to put it on , then realising he had no shirt on , dropped the jacket , found the shirt and put that on . |
| 28 | And with that he headed back to the school , she ground shaking as he strode across the grass . |
| 29 | With that he bounced out of the car and steamed into the shop area . |
| 30 | At half-past eleven he went down to the town with Tony to collect the papers . |