Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb -s] [pron] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Or perhaps it could be the heart-stopping finale where they finally , sorry , break the ice , and after a quick peckeroo execute the near impossible Pamchenko manoeuvre ( basically he grabs her by the feet and spins her in increasing circles , and she prays he does n't let go ) . |
| 2 | The reader may interpret the " flock " metaphorically , but by doing so he distances himself from the character . |
| 3 | If they do so he grabs them by the neck and hauls them back to the fold . |
| 4 | So he puts it on the table and tries to squash it into shape , and by the time he 's got his mouth full of that he ca n't make a sound . |
| 5 | Tony finds several packets of banana custard that is hot and sweet ; it tastes bloody awful and neither Tony nor I like it , none the less he fights me for the last helping . |
| 6 | but it 's like you see , he gives them spellings and he puts perhaps three or four wrong in twenty and they 're supposed to come home and check 'em , meanwhile he leaves them on the board for a whole week , which I think I 've told you before |
| 7 | Quickly he immerses us in the euphoria of the Israelites and the terror and bravado of their enemies . |
| 8 | Now he finds himself in the same position as his predecessor — a relative conservative whose time is past . |
| 9 | Well he does it through the skin by sweating . |
| 10 | Well he takes them to the post office |
| 11 | This God can and does break into human life , and sometimes he does it through the violent , the unexpected , the alien . |
| 12 | He has a few years on me — maybe ten — and sometimes he treats me like the son he never had . |
| 13 | Then he tells me about the clothes allowance , and then I know why Sue looks so dishy three times a week , and then I start to salivate because you get to keep them ! |
| 14 | Then he says something about the formal appeal of this sculpture to twentieth-century Western taste , because of its freedom from the canon of realism : |
| 15 | But Blain-Thomson will be able to tell you more then he gets him on the table . |
| 16 | anybody then he wants me to the Thursday and I said yeah that 's alright . |
| 17 | All too often moralists tend to regard a person 's moral life as the story of how he proves himself in the face of moral demands imposed on him by chance and circumstance . |
| 18 | Arrangements for the separation are made , an intermediary visits her in Brighton , where he finds her on the pier reading a novel , ‘ the title of which remains unknown ’ . |
| 19 | Langland 's imaginative perception of Will 's growth from experiencing this tension as destructive to a state where he sees it as the opportunity for love parallels the written witness of the mystics . |