Example sentences of "and he [vb past] [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 | Immediately a swarm of coolies rushed towards him , dragging their wire-wheeled rickshaws behind them , and he leaped into the nearest one with a loud whoop . |
| 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 | Madden got shifted from that division — you only got shifted if you were in trouble — and he came to the same division as myself . |
| 7 | And he came with the highest recommendations , from Margaret Thatcher and Helmut Kohl . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | and the boy would next morning would pass on the outside of the gate offering a reward of five pounds to anyone who would in other words five pounds for Oliver Twist I never in for this in my life said the in the white , white coat as he locked the gate and he went to the next morning . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | turn the crane round one way then the other and he got on the same lever but today they got , cos they got big lovely cranes where they stand there with four levers , four controls they 've got and it goes up and down . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | She ripped away her scarf and he saw in the uncertain light the marks about her throat . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Thereafter the relationship became steadily more strained and he left during the 1978 season . |
| 18 | He encouraged to take the examiner 's examination and he qualified in the late 1960s . |
| 19 | Where did he begin his career ? — with Banbury United , and he played in the same youth side as me . |
| 20 | Well old Jack er , he di used to do the post round and he lived in the next cottage |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | By the time Gabriel and he met in the late afternoon they knew that Rose had probably never got home the night before . |
| 25 | He phrased it as a question , but she did n't bother dignifying it with an answer , and he continued in the same grating tone . |
| 26 | A tram driver hid him under a seat in return for two packets of cigarettes and he escaped from the Austrian Soviet zone . |
| 27 | They all called him ‘ Father ’ and he drank in the glowing warmth of the heatwave which comforted his tortured bones . |
| 28 | 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 ’ . |
| 29 | And he thought about the endless mystery of objects . |
| 30 | 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 . |