Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he took up the longest and sharpest , wrapping its hilt round in his leather apron , and waited . |
| 2 | Thus he held together the two things which in the Enlightenment tended to fall apart , and to be defined in opposition to each other — faith against knowledge , revelation against reason . |
| 3 | Guiltily he wiped away the girlish tear-stains with the back of his hand . |
| 4 | Directly he did so the whole village , shops , inns , stalls , and people , and the river of wine , all vanished away ; nothing remained but the waterfall dashing over its crag . |
| 5 | In February 1922 , Hitler told his SA that the ‘ Jewish Question ’ was the only thing that mattered , and a few months later he summed up the entire Party Programme in the one point : that no Jew could be a ‘ people 's comrade ’ . |
| 6 | Now he wore only the bottom half of pyjamas , thin cotton ones that clung to him , revealing more than they concealed of his strong muscular body . |
| 7 | Well he climbed up the bloody first stair . |
| 8 | Stealthily he slipped down the deserted staircase past the second and third floors without mishap . |
| 9 | And then he woke up the next morning and threw up everywhere . |
| 10 | Then he made out the thousands of tiny rings that studded the ceiling . |
| 11 | Then he ran down the wooden stair , through the house , out to the lower lawn . |
| 12 | Then he thought how the long streets were dotted with lamps , and how the peaceful stars were shining overhead ( 5 ) . |
| 13 | Then he searched out the little hard protruding button that was the energy of her sex , he stabbed at it with his tongue , felt her respond quickly , then urgently . |
| 14 | Then he came back the next day — I think it was the next day — and told us who 'd died . |
| 15 | Then he turned back the top sheet and blankets . |
| 16 | Then he picked up the two bags and led her into the terminal . |
| 17 | Then he picked up the internal phone and pressed a button . |
| 18 | Then he picked up the fainter smells of buttercups and horses . |
| 19 | And little , twinkly Claus Korth , captain of U.93 with a crew of forty-four , described poetically how he picked up the forty-nine survivors of a Bismarck supply ship , the Belchen , and brought his heavily overloaded boat back to France . |
| 20 | Instead he summoned up the perennial fears on the East Bank of Israeli destabilisation and denounced what he said were Zionist plots to make Jordan a substitute homeland for the Palestinians . |
| 21 | His most productive bowling season was 1952 , when he chalked up the first of his five successive championships . |
| 22 | At thirty-two , Malcolm McLaren was seven years older than Branson , yet he looked only the same age , possibly even younger : a short and wiry figure dressed in pointed boots , black jeans and a tight-fitting suit jacket of Italianate design . |
| 23 | In Burma , where he had only the British Colonial Office and colonial administrators to deal with , he was more or less able to have his way . |
| 24 | King Haakon , defeated by Alexander II of Scotland at the Battle of Largs in 1263 , fled to Orkney , where he died later the same year ; and Norse rule ended when King Christian I pledged Orkney as security for the dowry of his daughter , The Maid of Norway , sent as bride to King James III . |
| 25 | When one sees that it was this snobbery which he set out to attack , it is possible to understand why he set about the delicate problem of pain in so breezy a fashion . |