Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] he [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the next four years or so he lived the nomadic life of the minstrel , heading off in his car round the well worn folk circuits of Germany , Italy and Brittany and playing everywhere from cafes to pizza parlours . |
| 2 | Before 1926 , either the debtor conveyed the legal right to a mortgagee , and retained an equitable interest — the ‘ Equity of Redemption ’ — or else he retained the legal right himself , and gave an equitable interest to the lender , as by a deposit of title-deeds . |
| 3 | Indeed , the captaincy of that side fell to Albert in mid-season after the retirement of Ted Smith and so he became the first Palace skipper to lead our club to a Football League championship . |
| 4 | John had been alerted to the possibility of profit and so he sentenced the Honourable Alexander Augustus to a stiff course of Lake Tourism into the Jaws of Borrowdale . |
| 5 | And soon he had the good news that this tiny refugee was fit enough to continue — though still very sick . |
| 6 | The giant Sikh 's muscles bunched , the veins stood out on his throat and temples , his eyes bulged , and somehow he heaved the great iron bell into the air and swung it back and forth three times , making the walls sing and tremble , before silencing it again on the pulsing floor . |
| 7 | They called him twice again , and eventually he appeared that evening once it was explained the family was n't used to this sort of treatment ( and once he realised the best salmon stream in the area ran through the estate ) . |
| 8 | Slowly and carefully he made the thick , pliable rope into a noose . |
| 9 | Then coolly and carefully he tossed the rough cloth over the lowered horns . |
| 10 | But — ’ and here he turned the whole force of his energetic presence on Jacob — ‘ I would suggest that you do not attempt to bring her home . |
| 11 | And then he heard the automatic alarms . |
| 12 | He took off the first slice , you know the rather well-done , brown bit at the end , and laid it on one side of the serving dish and then he cut the next slice off for the first lady and so on . ’ |
| 13 | Des was chatting with Macca on football focus in the morning , and then he said the same thing . |
| 14 | ‘ And then he had the infernal nerve to write and ask if she was managing all right , ’ he continued bitingly . |
| 15 | And then he had the blasted cheek to offer him a coffee , emphasizing his familiarity with the flat , his rights of ownership . |
| 16 | And then he saw the same look of horror on Jimmy 's face as he pulled him roughly back . |
| 17 | Initially , he could n't see the body , and then he noticed the tell-tale blanket draped over a shape on the floor . |
| 18 | The man moved to stand at the top of the stairs , barring their way , and then he recognized the young man . |
| 19 | He tore the pages up into big pieces and then he tore the big pieces up into tiny pieces . |
| 20 | Even as he was shaking his head , Patrick could hear Tom Rooney saying to him , " You 're part of the organization now … we look after our own , " and then he remembered the young gunman 's statement , " We need people like you … if any of you feel like joining … " |
| 21 | And then he remembered the piercing coldness of the Knife of Light slicing deep into his body , and the Lad 's evil greedy eyes and grinning mouth , and he knew that he was not dying , that this could be worse than death , for he was to suffer the soulless existence of all who become victims of the Knife of Light . |
| 22 | He turned the bag upside down and dumped everything onto the floor , and then he did the same for the drawers and for the wardrobe . |
| 23 | Dezi 's visit to the showground continued with a canter around the main ring … and then he joined the grand parade . |
| 24 | He was called to the next bungalow ; the woman 's trying to sell it ; and there he saw the happy couple saying goodbye to each other . |
| 25 | Then he went back to his mother , taking the Kings with him , and there he divided the whole spoil with the hidalgos and his other companions , both the Moorish captives and all the spoil of whatever kind , so that they departed right joyfully , being well pleased with what he had done . |
| 26 | In Monet 's The Gare Saint-Lazare pigment and cross-section analyses have shown how he built up the layers and how he achieved the dark tones using the bright colours of the impressionist palette ; no black was used . |
| 27 | Much would depend on Dulles 's mission and how he handled the thorny matters confronting him . |
| 28 | He yearned to reach London , was no less anxious than his uncle and his brother to reach the capital — and yet he had the curious feeling that time was not on his side . |
| 29 | His mother was still sobbing and now and again he heard the low rumble of his father 's voice , but no actual words . |
| 30 | But later he awoke to his own cry as creatures from under large old moss-green rocks crawled up his legs , leeching on the white skin , wetly sucking the blood , and above him , ropes , rigging , nets , a gigantic sagging cobweb of strung and re-strung hemp lines , swayed down to trap him ( children crying ) , and wherever he looked the wide mouths of women , no other feature but the mouth , tongues thick and purple as damsons , teeth white as the flecks on fall water and hands , nails curled and black , clawing at him , at his clothes , at his chest , at his face ( children wailing ) , ripping it away , tearing the skin from the skull … |