Example sentences of "[adv prt] [prep] he [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the line of grim cages among whose bars whined the winter wind , and above them the great plane trees that bent across the sky , their leafless branches bending in the wind like twisted hands that came down towards him from the angry sky . |
| 2 | Down behind him in the straggly little valley , I notice that a few allotments do remain , after all . |
| 3 | A thousand windows , some reflecting the dying light of the day , stared down with him at the trampled earth , the lines of washing-poles , the puddles . |
| 4 | On Saturdays as a special treat Granpa would allow me to go along with him to the early morning market in Covent Garden , where he would select the fruit and vegetables that we would later sell from his pitch , just opposite Mr Salmon 's and Dunkley 's , the fish and chippy that stood next to the baker 's . |
| 5 | And even as its sound struck the cage about him , there was a crash and a judder and the sky was falling in upon him from the darkening night . |
| 6 | In London he sat beside Johnson in their various venues ; now he rode beside him in the post-chaise taking them up through eastern Scotland ; next he would canter along beside him to the Western Isles . |
| 7 | She sat down beside him on the cool grass . |
| 8 | Piper may be articulate and polite , but he is genuinely tough and a real threat to Benn — who I believe must get through to him in the first six rounds or face disaster . |
| 9 | She was just cursing herself for not having had the courage to go straight over to him in the first place when he appeared again , a little further down . |
| 10 | ‘ The Queen is in good health and will not hand over to him in the foreseeable future unless her health suddenly deteriorates . |
| 11 | He spends all day on the practice ground sometimes and this paid off for him at the German Open . |
| 12 | Rebel Ruddock emerged as the players ' spokesman for Venables , speaking up for him in the High Court yesterday , having already slapped in a transfer request to Sugar . |
| 13 | Western attention was mostly directed towards the Kurds , who rose up against him at the same time , but the greater threat to Saddam and the heavier loss of life was Shiite , Not Kurdish . |
| 14 | Can you give me some idea of erm h how you started up with him in the first place ? |
| 15 | Charles caught up with him in the Green Room . |
| 16 | But maybe it was the way he was looking across at her with those all-seeing predatory jet-black eyes of his , or maybe it was the way she felt just a bit claustrophobic at being shut up beside him in the narrow confines of the car and the desire that sparked in her to have this ordeal over quickly , but all at once an idea popped into her head . |
| 17 | He could not find Strawberry but after a time Cowslip came up to him from the other end of the hall . |
| 18 | ‘ Of course , Doctor , ’ murmured Judy , gazing up at him through the dark crescents of her attractively long lashes . |
| 19 | I looked up at him on the other side of the table , at his severe eyes on mine . |
| 20 | His own address stared up at him in the same black hand |
| 21 | Staring down at the girl , Pascoe saw in her the Martha he had known as a lad — the Martha he had loved and lost ; and while he stared , she opened her eyes and looked back up at him from the stinking bed of straw , and for a moment he felt a little stirring of fear . |
| 22 | This is strongly implied in John chapter 6 where the Spirit is brought closely into relation with ‘ eating his body and drinking his blood ’ and so being confident of dwelling in Christ , being fed by him , and being raised up by him at the last day ( 6:54,56,63 ) ; just as he is in chapter 3:3–8 in connection with the new birth . |
| 23 | Watch out for him in the second series of The Young Ones when it 's next repeated , making a brief guest appearance as an exploding peasant . |
| 24 | This means handicaps are out for him in the immediate future and conditions races will have to be the order of the day on the run-up to Cheltenham . |
| 25 | Relax , ’ he said , drawing her back towards him in the cramped confines of the passage . |
| 26 | I walked back behind him for the last several hundred yards , and was shocked at the sheer , mindless , bestial ferocity of the crowd . |
| 27 | I must thrash things out with him during the next few months . ’ |
| 28 | Throughout most of the history of the Rump he was a close political supporter of Oliver Cromwell , but in 1653 he fell out with him in the complicated debates about the dissolution of the House . |
| 29 | Isolated in the middle of the pacific Ocean , 3,200 miles from Tahiti , and with a sea-crossing of almost a month stretching out before him to the next port of call , Darwin 's stay in this inhospitable volcanic outcrop must have been one of the lowest points for him on the entire trip . |
| 30 | As Edward motored down Portsdown Hill , from the George , the harbour stretched out before him in the dying light . |