Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gnasher ( my hamster ) used to like to roam freely throughout the living room but unfortunately this involved him crapping all over the carpet . |
| 2 | His father told him to listen now to the way he himself was going to sing them . |
| 3 | DJAMOLODINE Abdoujaparov , the former Soviet sprinter whose erratic finishing caused him to crash spectacularly on the Champs-Elysees during the final stage of the Tour de France last July , was yesterday disqualified after winning the Belgian Classic from Ghent to Wevelgem for pulling the jersey of Italian Mario Cipollini . |
| 4 | He stepped forward and allowed him to snip away at the stitching . |
| 5 | But definitely so he sort of went on his own and then went back into building and decorating and then when the Empire opened he started there from the off . |
| 6 | Someone saw him and called the police When they arrived he shimmied right to the very top of one of the chimneys . |
| 7 | She heard him drop quietly on the other side , and draw the bolt . |
| 8 | Tallis heard him walk away from the lodge . |
| 9 | She heard him running lightly down the stairs , and breathed a long sigh of relief . |
| 10 | Late that night both Millet and Throgmorton heard him going upstairs to the top of one of the towers of the chateau . |
| 11 | They heard him battering furiously at the panels and shouting hoarsely : ‘ What do you want with him ? |
| 12 | As I went one way , and he another , I heard him say cheerfully to the gentlemen , ‘ Mason 's already left . |
| 13 | ‘ You 're putting on quite a good display for someone who can hold her drink , ’ she heard him say sarcastically from the doorway . |
| 14 | She heard him come quietly up the stairs ; she heard the clink of vase and saucer . |
| 15 | As he walked he pondered dully on the crime he was trying to expiate , the murder of Clare 's happiness . |
| 16 | ( When appointed , he explained the prestige of his position required him to deal only with the minister , not with lesser civil servants . ) |
| 17 | The magistrates , bailing Raper until March 30 for probation officer 's reports , warned him to stay away from the Archdeacon . |
| 18 | I watched him drive effortlessly down the middle . |
| 19 | She reached up , and kissing him fiercely on the lips , whispered a rhyme she had made up years before : " Tristram Pascoe , Tristram Pascoe , never , never let your lass go ! " — and when they had hugged , she watched him climb nimbly over the wall and heard him jump down into the hayfield on the other side . |
| 20 | She watched him walk away along the corridor heading back towards the club , her heart feeling lighter than it had for the past week . |
| 21 | She watched him walk sideways towards the other end of the stage , his arm outstretched in her direction . |
| 22 | In choked desolation , she watched him walk quietly to the door and let himself out . |
| 23 | Her answering smile was thoughtful as she watched him duck gracefully through the doorway . |
| 24 | She watched him stroll away down the corridor as if he had n't a care in the world , knowing full well he was putting the act on for her benefit , and that he must be worrying about the star performer who was also his best friend . |
| 25 | Then he was gone and she watched him striding away down the street . |
| 26 | He watched him move quickly across the alley , and make for the patch of deep shadow under the iron stairs . |
| 27 | I saw him to the door and watched him pace away along the streets he knew better than most others in London . |
| 28 | When we sat down for our sandwiches , I made him go away with the grisly thing , but we could still hear him crunching away behind a rock — first a crunch then a cough as he swallowed a feather , then another crunch then more coughs until he realised there was no future in it and came round for a sandwich . |
| 29 | She made him stand idly on the sidewalk while she made a big deal of paying the cab driver . |
| 30 | But her sudden command made him stand violently on the pedal and they were both jerked forward against their seat-belts . |