Example sentences of "[prep] he [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did n't like the idea of him prowling around inside the house while she was working . |
| 2 | For a moment there was silence , then the boy spoke again , the whole of him gathered up into the movement of his lips . |
| 3 | ‘ Is there any chance of him coming out in the near future , do you think ? ’ |
| 4 | Do you think there 's any chance of him coming back for the opening of — ? ’ |
| 5 | It was n't a warm day though it was meant to be spring , and she felt colder thinking of him standing about in the mud of a building site . |
| 6 | It was unlike him to stay away from the office at all without telling me , though if something unexpected happened , I could understand that . |
| 7 | I rang the owner Gary Harris , and arranged with him to go out to the USA and view the aircraft , after which we came to an agreement and I purchased the Corsair . |
| 8 | The wise dragon so captivates his maiden that she never even has a second for longing , that she turns not from him to stare out across the wide meadows and lakes of adolescence . |
| 9 | Why else would she have looked away from him to glance idly at the clock ? |
| 10 | Spencer by now was n't very pleased , Elstree were n't very thrilled about him landing back on the runway either , and with the hydraulic fluid gone , there were no flaps either . |
| 11 | Alton 's back row combined to give club captain Dave Osborne — playing in the centre — a try and then Malcolm Osborne flipped an overhead pass to flanker Alan Purdon for him to go over between the posts . |
| 12 | Such poems ‘ need not be stimulated by real-life events ’ such as the plight of the Marseilles dock-workers , which has effaced the sight — darkly limned in Jaromil 's juvenilia — of Magda in her bath ; and if the poet who displays his ignorant , indifferent self-portrait is hoping for applause , there is a chance for him to do well in the new world of revolution , which rings with applause , and with blame . |
| 13 | As the car which has been sent for him comes in along the odd little elevated motorway , only four lanes wide , most of the city seems to be below eye-level . |
| 14 | It is absurd , every time we introduce another element of our policy , for him to leap on to the populist pitch and then , as he no doubt will in a few minutes ' time , find some detailed reasons for being opposed to it . |
| 15 | Boy would have been happiest to stand on the end of a pier from which big ships , real proper ocean ships , embarked ; but he would have settled for just an ordinary pier , a small one — so long as it was big enough for him to walk away from the city , into the wind , turn his back on everything and stand there looking west at an empty sea , or a far horizon , and think about America , or somewhere . |
| 16 | I ca n't think of any other reason for him to walk out of the dinner he was supposed to be at . |
| 17 | It was clearly impossible for him to stay on in the studio . |
| 18 | In any case , Fred Winterbotham first succeeded in charming the Nazis ' arch-ideologue Alfred Rosenberg and through him mingled attentively with the highest elements of the Party . |
| 19 | The spoilt , black-haired girl sitting beside him staring out at the river . |
| 20 | After criticising Government policy since 1979 , when the Conservatives came to power , Mr Clarke said : ‘ For John Major to claim credit for Hoover jobs staying Scotland — thanks to him opting out of the Social Chapter and keeping wages down — is a disgraceful betrayal of the Scottish workforce . |
| 21 | What is denied by the defendant and what is the issue of trial is that they deny that they were ever instructed by Mr er to save such a measure or that it would have been appropriate to serve them or that at any stage Mr ever asked to be advised on any way open to him to get out of the contract er as alleged . |
| 22 | They had fallen , both of them , he could picture it exactly in his mind , and he could remember Kairallah , calling to him to get back to the car . |
| 23 | One view saw Suharto 's motive in encouraging greater activism on the part of Golkar as an attempt to acquire a reforming image to help counteract pressure on him to stand down before the 1993 election . |
| 24 | ‘ I thought such as He died out at the beginnings of Time , ’ she said . |