Example sentences of "[adv] [coord] he [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |
| 2 | The sarcasm seemed to relieve him a little and he took the black strop of leather from its nail and opened the razor . |
| 3 | ‘ Ta , ’ said Willie gratefully and he touched the soft wool of the pullover . |
| 4 | I do n't think Father played more than a couple of games of golf thereafter and he spent the next twenty years in pursuit of trout , salmon and sea-trout ; never happier than when he was waist-deep , regardless of time of year or weather . |
| 5 | The plane rose , banked again and he circled the vast complex that was the Hacienda de Nieve . |
| 6 | She pushed him again and he did the same again . |