Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb mod] [vb infin] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Obviously , he 's a big man and we can bang the ball up to him so he can pick up the crumbs . |
| 2 | He must wait until he could find out the truth . |
| 3 | He swept his hat from the dresser and crushed it on his head and went outside as if he might break down the doors in his way . |
| 4 | Joe 's reducing a dislocated thumb if he can screw up the courage , and Amy 's changing a dressing . |
| 5 | ‘ Anyway , ’ said Amiss , ‘ from what you say , it 's not as if he could bring in the police and have the club cleansed of sin . |
| 6 | We were approaching the Rover works at Cowley when Michael declared that he felt as if he could pull back the steering column and take off . |
| 7 | He asked the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff if he should pull out the Ariadne which they knew , of course , was sitting over the crashed plane . |
| 8 | Before he can set out the book reaches a savage climax as a night bivouac comes under heavy bombardment with rockets and mortars : the violence , noise and confusion are captured , as is the terrifying helplessness which contrasts with the circumstances of his first wound in action during an armoured charge under gunfire . |
| 9 | One of the things he had not envisaged was how long it would take before he could send out the first invoice . |
| 10 | To this end he reintroduced a school of industrial design , sacked the Professor of Painting , Gilbert Spencer , who had advised students not to visit the 1945–6 Picasso and Matisse exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum , appointed the former fashion editor of Vogue , Madge Garland , as the first ever Professor of Fashion and invited Allan Walton , who died before he could take up the post , to head the textile department . |
| 11 | I 'd expected some Chart Show clothes horses purveying diluted Techno , not an androgynous keyboardist , a commanding dancer and the mad hatter MC who 'd just as soon sing the praises of spliff as he 'd stare out the crowd , bug-eyes in effect . |