Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | When he lifted out the first and looked through the handwritten pages he found that he was holding Henryk Liawski 's personal diary covering odd and irregular dates between 1952 and 1958 . |
| 32 | Dalglish , whose side visit Southampton tomorrowsun , got his priorities right when he took on the former Luton and Wimbledon boss as his right-hand man soon after taking office just over a year ago . |
| 33 | Then Lebensraum became available in Venice in the Sixties , when he took on the first floor of the Palazzo Malpiero Trevisani in Campo Santa Maria Formosa . |
| 34 | When he took not the slightest notice of her demand Laura closed her eyes , forcing herself to breathe slowly and deeply as she desperately tried to pull herself together . |
| 35 | He acquired a new dignity when he brought in the five o'clock tea tray . |
| 36 | But when he finds there the charming young cabaret singer , Lola , he decides that it is his moral duty to save her … by marriage ! |
| 37 | But when he arrived there the British embassy expressed fears that his scarred features would only reinforce anti-involvement sentiments among American parents . |
| 38 | LAWRIE SMITH booked a ticket to Barcelona when he wrapped up the British Olympic selection series for the Soling keelboat place in the French Olympic Classes regatta at Hyeres . |
| 39 | It is to be hoped that the Secretary of State , when he sets up the national appraisal arrangements to which he is committed , will build on this goodwill . |
| 40 | He tells us how he cried and cried when he found out the Almighty Mozzer had slung his hook and f—ed off home for a veggieburger . |
| 41 | He flushed with anger when he remembered how the legal aid he had levied to furnish her to her wedding had brought in only miserable trickles of money on the date appointed , and how he had been forced to send out letters to all and sundry requesting loans to help to pay for her clothes and dowry , and even to borrow abjectly from the City of London and some of its richest citizens , with all the members of his council pledging themselves for repayment , so low was his own credit fallen . |
| 42 | Pearse identifies the same process as the Kulak path when he shows how the incorporative drive draws out what he calls the progressive element among the peasantry ( Pearse 1975 ) . |
| 43 | The hon. Gentleman is really behaving disgracefully — — when he accuses British Rail of negligence before an inquiry has even begun , and when he has not the slightest idea of what caused that accident . |
| 44 | She was afraid then , rather as a skier might feel when he looks down the steep whiteness of a dangerous slope , or a high diver who seems far above the water , but the sensation was so unusual to her that she could n't be sure that it was entirely unpleasant still strongly mixed , as it was , with curiosity . |
| 45 | He began to recite a litany of his own successes to himself as he passed down the quiet , thickly carpeted corridors to the executive lift that went up to the eighteenth floor : a new apartment in the smart suburb of Beauséjour ; a smaller apartment in Montparnasse , with a most accommodating young mistress ; two cars , one the largest and latest registration Citroën Familiale ; a generous expense account , which was not queried too closely — he hoped was not queried too closely . |
| 46 | Over the wall , Frear had come in and was talking to one of the waiters as he wiped down the outside tables . |
| 47 | ‘ Hello Son , ’ said Bert fondly , as he took out the inevitable packet of Woodbines and offered one to Yanto . |
| 48 | Thinking of the crystal spaces , the lines of Kubla Khan unfolded naturally before him as he dawdled up the long terrace of decaying houses . |
| 49 | Moran looked stern and self-conscious as he drove up the short avenue . |
| 50 | She could hear Penry moving about upstairs as he made up the other bed . |
| 51 | A SCHOOLBOY was robbed of his mountain bike as he pedalled down the hard shoulder of a motorway to get help after his dad 's car broke down . |
| 52 | As he hung about the Red Anchor he noticed for the first time that its character was changing . |
| 53 | As he strode down the 18th in the morning alongside Parry , the pair looking like the leaders of the Lilliput Open , he appeared every inch of his 64 ( to Parry 's 66 ) a champion . |
| 54 | He 's extremely cheerful , if somewhat misguided , as he points out the many features of the room , and mentions that the public rooms in the Cottage will be opened at seven o'clock . |
| 55 | As he rode down the narrow goat-trails of the Khyber Pass , Battuta would have known that the Delhi Sultanate was violent frontier country , constantly in a state of war with the pagan Mongols to the north and the infidel Hindus to the south . |
| 56 | He knew that the archer would have to load and winch his bow , so he rose and ran with all his force , clearing the trees , almost breathless as he stumbled up the muddy causeway leading to the main abbey gate . |
| 57 | The Rev John Boocock said he was looking forward to acting the David Dimbleby role as he gives up the regular ‘ sermon slot ’ for a full interview in which he will try and investigate the relationship between the church and education . |
| 58 | Old Red watched the older man 's slow movements clinically as he held aside the red screen , then followed him out to talk . |
| 59 | He opened the throttle as he turned left into Station Road The burble of the exhaust turned to a bellow as he raced down the long gentle slope towards Newtown . |
| 60 | The consultant was visibly shaking as he described how the 12-year-old victim had sustained severe head and facial injuries . |