Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly he fell on the wet deck , and he caught the side of the ship with his hands . |
| 2 | Perhaps he dreamed of the nine-pound baby |
| 3 | Perhaps he walks on the right side , with just the metal grid fence separating him from the rolling fields of graves — in no hurry , since there is no class for him to make . |
| 4 | When he felt brave enough he took off the old pullover and the tracksuit pants that he 'd been sleeping in and started to dress . |
| 5 | So he said to the little man , ‘ I will take the pretty glass key . ’ |
| 6 | So he walked in the opposite direction , and he went to the park to get away from the people he might know . |
| 7 | So he says to the oldest one he said just do ah , he said three four kick or something |
| 8 | five hundred , five hundred I could only say he was n't , five o'clock last night he was no so he went to the one doctor , so to the erm what 's gon na happen when they when he , when they can go down the doctors that 's first of all go into this and after ten , twenty four hours doing this kind of thing for forty eight hours up . |
| 9 | So he went to the commanding officer at Binbrook ( who was the one who had recommended him in the first place ) , and said — no thanks , I want to get out . |
| 10 | As he did so he moved in the dreamy way of a man in a state of shock . |
| 11 | So he turned round the second he did , and made it look as though he was waiting for the woman he 'd just tried to kill — when they were walking along together … |
| 12 | Thus he slices through the old argument between ‘ formalism ’ and ‘ realism ’ by inserting what we may call a notion of intervention . |
| 13 | Soon he came upon the first of the Regent 's horsemen , Douglases to a man , riding back and forward , to form a cordon cutting off the castle . |
| 14 | Soon he landed in the juvenile court and was placed into care |
| 15 | He replied that he did not care and anyway he knew about the Black shooting and there was no truth in what we were saying . |
| 16 | Anyway he lived in the old hut after the railway was taken up , we did n't see much of him in the winter but when the spring came round he would appear again . |
| 17 | Outside he said to the beautiful brunette : |
| 18 | As the doors slid open he glanced at the middle-aged couple who got out but then stared straight ahead again . |
| 19 | In 1334 he was captured and ransomed by the Scots , gaining his freedom in time to fight in Edward III 's major Scottish campaign of 1335 ; but thereafter he shared in the general decline of English fortunes and interest in Scotland . |
| 20 | I note here how eloquently he yields to the muted viola and cello duo at 2'07 ’ , withdrawing his tone to the merest thread of sound , barely grazing the string . |
| 21 | Yesterday he smiled for the last time and said he did not wish to obstruct the work of Prime Minister Hans Modrow — who now constitutes , with a small group of associates from Dresden , the only remaining acceptable face of reform within the East German Communist Party . |
| 22 | The more he thought of the two carpet-baggers standing up at the podium , the more intense the pains in his head became . |
| 23 | But ten days later he returned to the same Thornaby service station , filled up with petrol and then paid by cheque . |
| 24 | He himself claimed to have been present at the battle of the Boyne , as a private soldier in King William 's army ; later he deserted from the Royal Regiment of Dragoons ( Scots Greys ) when serving under the first Duke of Marlborough [ q.v. ] in Flanders . |
| 25 | He was wounded at the siege of Leith in 1560 and nine years later he stood against the northern rising , subsequently advising on the defence of the northern border . |
| 26 | A few moments later he pulled into the gravelled forecourt of a large house . |
| 27 | Three years later he switched to the Daily Mirror ; he was still based in Yorkshire , covering the local beat . |
| 28 | Yet minutes later he joined in the traditional chorus sweeping the allied line , the eastern response to the French ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ and far , far older . |
| 29 | It might be said truthfully he died at the high point of his fame ! |
| 30 | There were things he consciously noticed about people which he brought to mind long after he had ceased to watch them , but now he noted for the first time that she had very small feet — they could have belonged to the oriental he had imagined her to be through the sun haze . |