Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore he wrote from the standpoint of one who had failed conspicuously to emulate his own colleagues during his lifetime . |
| 2 | Then suddenly he fell to the ground , with blood running down his face . |
| 3 | Suddenly he dashed across the street , dodging the traffic , and jumped on to a small motorbike . |
| 4 | No matter how much he wiped at the condensation on the window , he could still barely see what was going on out there . |
| 5 | Apparently he came to the office to get her telephone number and she told him we had them . ’ |
| 6 | In the past I 'd just resented how long he spent in the office . |
| 7 | Perhaps the only thing that kept Dauntless Javelot from perishing of dreariness and despair was the fact that no matter how long he rode through the forest , he never seemed to visit the same place twice . |
| 8 | The excess starters , generators , regulators and anything else that we were n't supposed to have was put on this trailer , was tied neatly to the canvas , we put a man on the tractor and all day long he drove around the perimeter strip with it . |
| 9 | He could n't cry , he could n't feel ; he did n't know how long he stood outside the door , leaning against the greasy wall . |
| 10 | I thought he felt the same about me ; perhaps he did in the beginning . |
| 11 | West won the second frame on the black but that was all he managed against the Ulsterman . |
| 12 | It was a crazy idea , but it was all he had at the moment . |
| 13 | When , a long time ago now , Stephen had tried to call him Dad or Father and drop the babyish name , he had shouted that Stephen was all he had in the world and could n't he have a little bit of kindness and call him by the one name that meant something ? |
| 14 | So he hung around the sale to see what would happen to them . |
| 15 | So he said to the man who led the horse , Sam Burch : |
| 16 | So he walked to the park and sat on the park bench and let his thoughts pass through his head . |
| 17 | Some of Hugo 's drunken friends told him to let the hounds chase her , and so he ran from the house and unlocked the dogs . |
| 18 | so he exhaled onto the surface of the glass |
| 19 | Teclis could not refuse such an honour and so he returned to the Tower of Hoeth . |
| 20 | So he rode to the farm with five or six of his evil friends . |
| 21 | I was intrigued by this and so he went to the store room and eventually returned with a pile of prints . |
| 22 | She said : ‘ He asked about the bureau and I said I had nowhere to put the things from it so he went into the wardrobe and cleared a shelf and said put it in there . |
| 23 | So he went through the door . |
| 24 | So he went before the court and pleaded ‘ Not Guilty ’ . |
| 25 | So me mam says so he went in the house and says his , his wife 's name , he said , give me a pencil and paper . |
| 26 | So he came to the conclusion that I 'd torn a muscle . |
| 27 | His apartment in New York would be no place to keep an African antelope , and so he came to the nature reserve where I was working . |
| 28 | In doing so he departed from the precedent set by many of the best known formula constructors , including Flesch and Dale . |
| 29 | He had ducked enough to soften the blow , but even so he crumpled to the ground . |
| 30 | So he worked on the nocturne by day , mindful of the contradiction . |