Example sentences of "[to-vb] he [adv] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I used to meet him most often in the museums and galleries fixed in rapt contemplation of pictures with that grave , searching look which was one of the beauties of his face . |
| 2 | They had surrounded him with horror and stupidity , with all the paraphernalia of this so-called human excess , and they expected it to bring him down , to reduce him still further from the once proud state he had fallen from , but they would not succeed . |
| 3 | He fell on his feet , coiled hard into a ball , and used all the weight of his body and the power of his long legs to project him forward again after the enemy who recoiled from his reaching arms . |
| 4 | If it was Memet , she would prefer to greet him out here in the dusk , in darkness just burnished with the overspill glow from the street lamps , where he could n't see her face . |
| 5 | She 'd been so sure she 'd be alone again this morning , and to have him still here under the same roof , calmly cooking breakfast , was almost more than she could cope with . |
| 6 | Her chihuahua was making its ‘ business ’ in the gutter , and that was a relief because it meant she would n't have to take him out again in the evening , and wait around for him . |