Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Watch me , ’ said Amiss , as at high speed he put on the clothes Pooley had just brought him .
2 The Empress was in great beauty … the Emperor also looked very impressive , and when after the ceremony he held up the child in his arms to present him to the multitude , the enthusiasm was genuine and great .
3 Well , I wo n't say but that was fair enough , a pity he has not the key he needs to read it , it would give him pleasure .
4 Robin adds that as a boy he saw both the Graf Zeppelin and R–101 , obviously an enthusiast from an early age .
5 For a brief moment he experienced again the exhilaration he had felt on the plain late the previous day when he dropped a big red banteng bull with a single shot from nearly two hundred yards .
6 But he also knew the moment he threw away the shotgun , he was also throwing away his last hope of survival .
7 As Polly took his place he started down the companionway .
8 When he caught up with the spectators following the last match he picked up the information that had filtered back through the crowd 's grapevine .
9 In a subsequent article he sums up the reasons for de-industrialisation as follows : ‘ The most convincing explanation ’ , he writes , ‘ of progressive de-industrialisation in the U.K. is the weakening of the foreign trade sector with a slow growth of exports relative to other countries , and in relation to the propensity to import . ’
10 The policy of austerity and a strong franc , which he had so staunchly defended for the best part of a decade ( and which had earned him such praise abroad ) , was being blamed within France for recession and for the record level of unemployment ( it broke through the symbolic 3m mark the day he handed over the reins of government ) .
11 For nearly half a mile he went back the way he had come , only to become more lost and confused than before .
12 Layton put it somewhat differently when he added that ‘ the two great qualities a young writer has are his arrogance and inexperience , ’ and on another occasion he picked out the twin characteristics of ‘ precocity and independence . ’
13 After a while he became more the professor than the professor was himself — just by observing the distinguished man and taking his being into and upon himself … yes , I have never forgotten that .
14 By night he lived out the fantasies he had internalised from avidly watching his collection of over 6,000 slasher videos and pornographic manga comic-books .
15 Sombre , though with a pacy , filmic sequencing he whipped up the orchestra to a marvellously stylish finale .
16 Despite the opposition of his father he took up the study of medicine , first at Leipzig University and then in Vienna , where his funds ran out , forcing him to take employment for a time with the Governor of Transylvania until he had accumulated sufficient money to continue his studies .
17 So after a week he takes away the bandage , removes the bit of radium , sure enough there 's a bright red radiation burn on his forearm but apart from that he feels fine , he does n't feel ill , he obviously has n't died , er so he said well I 'll leave that for a few weeks and monitor my , my health and see if there 's any long term affects from this exposure to , to radiation .
18 In the morning he picked up the van in Hilderbridge and drove to Jackley the long way round through Byss , having a newly upholstered chaise longue to deliver before he made the Jackley collection .
19 Early in his career he turned down the title role in David Lean 's Lawrence of Arabia ( eventually played by Peter O'Toole ) after producer Sam Speigel insisted he sign a long-term picture deal .
20 Taking an envelope from his pocket he wrote down the names of his guests .
21 Otis Ferguson had immediately spotted the flair of Capra and in reviewing his next film Broadway Bill he spelt out the lesson that Hollywood was rapidly learning :
22 When his mother knocked on the door he pulled up the sheet .
23 Sitting down opposite without a word he picked up the glass and emptied the contents down his throat .
24 On hearing my voice he put down the phone .
25 The ‘ sloshed ’ friend broke his ankle so as a good turn he took over the driving .
26 At each stop he noted down the shapes and stitch work of other traditional working men 's jumpers .
27 When she returned with the money he brought up the matter of the dog's-tooth suit .
28 As he topped the rise he let out the throttle .
29 He sold Grove Chance , then in foal for the first time , to his neighbour Percy Thomas , but when she died shortly after giving birth to Norton 's Coin he bought back the foal .
30 After a moment 's hesitation he picked up the receiver .
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