Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It drew the hungry child from his bed to the landing , where he glanced nervously at the Bogeyman 's room before creeping on tip-toe along the strip of faded carpet . |
| 2 | He told Stephanie to put her feet up and went into the kitchen for solitude , where he began purposefully on the dishes . |
| 3 | On his way he passed the church , where he looked closely at the old tower door . |
| 4 | Lara had played just where he left off in the World Cup , where he was comfortably the leading West Indian run-scorer with 333 at 47 . |
| 5 | Edward made himself a cup of tea and vanished to the Britches , where he stayed late into the dusk . |
| 6 | His appreciation of Chinese food was nurtured at his mother 's table and also at his uncle 's Chinese restaurant where he worked part-time from the age of 11 . |
| 7 | Although he wrote just after the Great Depression of the nineteen-thirties , he rejected the idea that capitalism would break down because of a lack of investment opportunities and a reduction in the real rate of profit . |
| 8 | Although he believed thoroughly in the ability of these products to fill out the tiny character lines around the eyes and mouth , and to smooth his neck , he did not want to admit he was buying them for himself . |
| 9 | Although Nizan 's writings of the period are suffused with acerbic communist ideology , although he was chosen as communist party candidate in Bourg-en-Bresse for the general election of 1932 , although he participated fully in the Universite Ouvriere from its opening in 1932 , during the same period he was also involved in finalising his bourgeois education ( 1927–9 ) , he was also a philosophy teacher at the Lycee Lalande in Bourg-en-Bresse ( 1931–2 ) . |
| 10 | This pious strain was much more apparent in the third brother , David I. Although he contributed lavishly to the Dunfermline foundation , David continued to favour the Edinburgh residence . |
| 11 | Immediately he sprawled sideways across the cot in a loose posture of sleep and began snoring loudly . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , assuming that all users are eventually registered , the data subject should be able to feel that he knows or can find out more than he knew hitherto about the extent to which he figures in the data banks . |
| 13 | Nor did he ever measure more energy in the bangs and heat than he put in from the electricity supply . |
| 14 | He thought he would not begin on all that , so he got up from the kitchen table . |
| 15 | ‘ So he came up to the farm , and they had a job for my horse , which he was very interested in . |
| 16 | There was nothing worth watching on television , so he went back into the kitchen . |
| 17 | Charles knew it would be unprofessional to use the pass-door from backstage to the auditorium once the house had started to fill , so he went out of the Stage Door to walk round . |
| 18 | This hangar was all closed up apart from one door , so he drove in in the semi-dark and reversed rapidly into what he thought was an empty corner without checking it first for parked vehicles . |
| 19 | The vase wobbled , so he hung on to the window ledge to steady himself . |
| 20 | However , the tragedy upset Burke and he became convinced people regarded him as a murderer , so he sailed across to the United States . |
| 21 | I have tried taking the castle out , but this only makes him unhappy , so he goes over to the heater and swims underneath it . |
| 22 | Pilots were to be Russ Boardman and Lee Gehlbach , but Boardman was injured prior to the race and Doolittle found he had no mount ( his landing gear had jammed ) , so he took over for the Thompson . |
| 23 | He did not drink alcohol ; it was the cocktail hour , dinner would not come yet , so he gazed out of the window . |
| 24 | But some doubted and one , Rol , who was a great war leader , mistrusted the feelings which prompted the Myrcans to wage war and was sickened by the killing , so he set off into the mountains to seek the Dwarves and avail himself of their ancient wisdom . |
| 25 | Asik knew that his grandparents would die if he did not give them enough water and there was no water left in the pots , so he set off to the river . |
| 26 | Cut him out and slip him into the stocking so he peeps out of the top . |
| 27 | Once he came out of the Navy , Charles became a little more involved , but it was not really until the end of the decade , after Mountbatten 's death , when he was looking for a real job to do , that Charles took up the reins himself . |
| 28 | She stole a look at him ; he was looking grimmer by the minute — he would n't show any mercy once he caught up with the culprits . |
| 29 | Jamie Delgado , the only Briton to win a world Junior Title , which he did in Florida in the 14 and under age category , will continue to develop as a potential world beater for Britain , provided he stays firmly under the wing of David Lloyd . |
| 30 | The customer was the original owner and provided he had not in the interim lost his ownership , he transferred that ownership to X. However , the court upheld the finance company 's claim that the customer had by the doctrine of estoppel lost his ownership to the finance company . |