Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We have him bang to rights on the kiosk heist and Special Forces caught him redhanded holding up the auction room and trying to make off with a green canvas portmanteau . ’ |
| 2 | In hindsight , it might have been better for him to have taken up the offer . |
| 3 | So this statement could be him trying to play down the incident … remember there were a few incidents where cuntona was reported to have stormed off to france . |
| 4 | How many millions similar to him have given up the ghost of ambition or had it driven out of them ? |
| 5 | Many may have felt betrayed , but there is little to suggest that MacDonald was any the less of a socialist than others , nor is there hard evidence to suggest that he schemed to bring about the collapse of the Labour government . |
| 6 | Mr Thomas Russell was asked to board up the back part of he building to keep out the rain . |
| 7 | ‘ Ca n't be done , ’ she said , feeling shamed by the look of despair on his face , and worse still as he fought to bring back the blankness to cover it . |
| 8 | Bigwig he asked to bring up the rear . |
| 9 | Oh we used to have phosphate and sulphur , potash , coal , granite you name it anything , general cargo we 've had , loaded everything , even dead bodies , we sent , there was one young , one young person , he got drowned up the coast there and they and he had to go back to Holland and they brought that from out the warehouse and put it on the stern of our ship , his coffin , they sent that back and they erm export er pigs to Poland , all live pigs , pedigree pigs . |
| 10 | He got sold down the line . |
| 11 | When his father , frustrated after years as a POW , returned , he tried to lay down the law . |
| 12 | He tried to set up the League of Princes , an international peace-keeping force aimed primarily against the Turks , and the exhibition shows the route of the journeys he made to other countries to promote the idea . |
| 13 | There was a distant whistle from behind Chernayev 's teeth as if he tried to blow away the wind that settled on him . |
| 14 | He tried to open out the conversation . |
| 15 | He tried to imagine how the boy would look now that he was nine . |
| 16 | The agent hesitated as he tried to read out the name of the Russian ship from the bill of laden in his hand . |
| 17 | With everyone else gone Tonks had to fend for himself so he tried to find out the truth . |
| 18 | He tried to straighten out the brim but it had been curled and folded so often it was beyond repair . |
| 19 | He tried to sniff back the wetness that had sprung to his eyes , but a few hot tears managed to spill over and course down his burning cheeks . |
| 20 | He tried to cover up the flutter of surprise by leaning forward and telling the driver it was time to return to New Scotland Yard . |
| 21 | The only rough treatment they got in the first half , worked in their favour , as Jim Magilton was hauled down , but up he bounced to hit home the penalty . |
| 22 | In this post he helped to build up the airship service into a major weapon in the war at sea . |
| 23 | He has to weigh up the possibility of a conviction for something , as opposed to the accused walking free . |
| 24 | Along the way he has brushed aside the wrath of his fellow-judges . |
| 25 | Over the years he has pieced together the plane 's last , dying moments from the second one of its engines caught fire . |
| 26 | It is also a rather different exhibition conceptually : Alfonso Perez Sanchez , former Director of the Prado and co-organiser of the show , has declared that he wants the Spanish to get to know ‘ the real Ribera ’ , which means that he has whittled down the number of works . |
| 27 | The manager who took Sunderland to Wembley six months ago knows that he 's still not out of the woods , but he has turned back the clock in a bid to stay in business . |
| 28 | The personal tragedy that befalls Gibson 's character in ‘ Forever Young ’ is that he loses his childhood sweetheart in an accident before he has plucked up the courage to propose marriage . |
| 29 | He has summed up the issue much better than I could . |
| 30 | They also failed to take him seriously , and made him angry , but he has carried on the struggle . |