Example sentences of "[to-vb] he [adv] [prep] [art] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Steve obediently went off , taking with him a jar of Marmite in a garden trowel as a substitute for coal in a shovel , and he stood out there on the front porch in the cold listening to the silence and looking at the stars , waiting for them to let him in on the last stroke of Big Ben on the radio : a faint , feeble echo of some once meaningful ritual , though what it had meant or now could mean nobody there knew or had ever known . |
| 2 | For all that , had she been right just to abandon him pitilessly for the first dashing knight to Pass her way ? |
| 3 | I was lucky enough to knock him out in the first round . |
| 4 | If there was no work there , the tramping artisan was fed , given a bed for the night and a few pence to see him on to the next town on the official tramping route . |
| 5 | he played once more before the Lord 's show-piece and was called six times for throwing in the Hampshire match , but the selectors decided to risk him again in the second Test , where he was to meet his fate at the most famous ground in cricket . |
| 6 | No doubt this ‘ concession ’ was to soften him up for the next examination . |
| 7 | ‘ He 's been my guardian spirit for years and it 's interesting to be forced to suppress all my own creativity in order to copy him slavishly to the last detail . |