Example sentences of "and he [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lambert watched it as long as he could , but his own plane was losing height , and he limped over the British lines at fifty feet . |
| 2 | George Underwood : ‘ It was all instigated by David really , because he had been listening to the World Service on the radio and suddenly got the bug to get involved in American Football , and he wrote to the American Embassy asking for more information . |
| 3 | She caressed his anxious dick with growing skill , and he responded to the gentle stroking of her fingers . |
| 4 | Oh that 's not to be , Sri Lanka are a hundred and thirty-eight for four and here 's Lawrence to pitched up and he drives outside the off stump , the ball goes through to Russell , low again , beaten back at the pace rehearses a shot outside the off stump , he was trying to hit it somewhere through extra cover . |
| 5 | He found a certain amount of fossil evidence that the time planes were not parallel with the lithological boundaries and he came to the general conclusion that the facies to the north are in the main younger than those to the south . |
| 6 | Mr Steven Hadley , defending , said Williams 's wife , Andrea , 30 , died of cancer and he went to the medical centre in Pinner armed with a knife intending to make his wife 's GP , Dr Patricia Carson , apologise for what he felt was a wrong diagnosis . |
| 7 | I did go out with one of me mates once and he was going burgling and I needed to do one 'cos I had no money or nothing , strung out , and he went to the Old Hall Estate and broke into a house and I got in through the window with him and I just looked around and saw all these photographs of , y'know like , the family that lived there with the kids and that and I just got this horrible feeling , so I just got out the window and walked away , even though I was strung out and I did n't pick nothing up , I just left him to it ‘ cos , like , though all the burglaries I 'd done , they 'd all been shops . |
| 8 | And he went into the main agent in Edinburgh and gave them an order for three of those , and of course , we did n't get them just right away because er probably we 'd have got the last one about a couple of years later in these days . |
| 9 | So the guy who 'd been fired took one of the cars from the agency and he got on the wrong road ; they 'd forgotten about curfew , probably they were too drunk and they did n't stop when a South Vietnamese barrage challenged them . |
| 10 | She ripped away her scarf and he saw in the uncertain light the marks about her throat . |
| 11 | It was summer , and he walked around the beautiful gardens alone , admiring the beds of shrub-roses which had been laid out here as they had been in Josephine Bonaparte 's gardens at Malmaison . |
| 12 | He was a trustee of the Oxford Preservation Trust ( 1932–67 ) , and he served on the governing bodies of the King 's School , Canterbury ( 1933–62 ) , St Edward 's School , Oxford ( 1933–57 ) , and two other schools , while he was a member of Oxford University 's hebdomadal council from 1935 to 1947 . |
| 13 | and he goes off the big city ma ma , like this and he 's got a fucking flying helmet and a flying bucket |
| 14 | And he goes into the non-title contest revealing : ‘ I do n't bother watching tapes of my opponents any more . |
| 15 | He encouraged to take the examiner 's examination and he qualified in the late 1960s . |
| 16 | John 's legs buckle and he falls onto the wet grass . |
| 17 | In a speech to the European Parliament in Strasbourg on Feb. 12 , Menem claimed that Argentina had left behind its Third-World status and non-aligned past [ for Argentina 's September 1991 exit from the Non-Aligned Movement see pp. 38458-59 ] , and he appealed to the European Communities ( EC ) not to become isolationist as they pursued economic and political union . |
| 18 | His debut album ‘ Brand New Star ’ was released recently on CD in Japan , he tours extensively here , across the water and into Europe and he travels to the Far East for the first time in December . |
| 19 | He himself emphasized his concern to record the good and bad that was being done in his own day , especially in so far as it concerned the Church , and he noted among the principal actors , kings , catholics and heretics . |
| 20 | I had one chap who worked for me for over two years without one accident , did n't scratch anything , did everything right , he was a wonderful conscientious man , and then one day he was carrying a big box containing some expensive crockery and he tripped on the top step of the stairs and the lot went down , the whole box went right to the bottom . |
| 21 | By the time Gabriel and he met in the late afternoon they knew that Rose had probably never got home the night before . |
| 22 | A tram driver hid him under a seat in return for two packets of cigarettes and he escaped from the Austrian Soviet zone . |
| 23 | They all called him ‘ Father ’ and he drank in the glowing warmth of the heatwave which comforted his tortured bones . |
| 24 | Primal Scream 's petty pilfering of dance rhythms turned into wholesale hijacking when they gave club deejay Andy Weatherall a cast-off riff to play with and he returned with the seductive bump and grind of ‘ Loaded ’ . |
| 25 | And he thought about the endless mystery of objects . |
| 26 | They started drinking that evening and the man who 'd been fired started talking about life in Vietnam and posing as a veteran , and he said to the other one , ‘ The only place to go after hours is Tan Son Hut airport because they have marvellous chinese soup there ’ and they wanted to sober up . |
| 27 | When the Party conference began at Brighton in October 1935 , opinion in the Party had hardened against Lansbury and Cripps.Lansbury 's support for pacifism received only 102,000 votes and he resigned from the parliamentary leadership . |
| 28 | He hated pomp and humbug , and he resigned from the National Academy of Sciences because he found that they spent most of their time deciding which other scientists should be admitted to the Academy . |
| 29 | The remains of the sculpture slipped through his arms , and he sank onto the sharp iron prong . |
| 30 | The uncertainty blossomed into fear again , and he cringed before the icy whiplash of Curtis 's tongue , as he continued scathingly , ‘ You know somethin' else ? |