Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After criticising Government policy since 1979 , when the Conservatives came to power , Mr Clarke said : ‘ For John Major to claim credit for Hoover jobs staying Scotland — thanks to him opting out of the Social Chapter and keeping wages down — is a disgraceful betrayal of the Scottish workforce . |
| 2 | SINCE he limped out of the Old Firm game on 2 January , Tony Mowbray has missed all of Celtic 's last 13 matches . |
| 3 | ‘ Weel you leetle girls come here every day and buy my feesh ? ’ he asked hopefully of the two earnest children , one big , one small , who stood watching his every move . |
| 4 | I think he got out of the flat first and not out of debt . |
| 5 | As she placed her hands trustingly in his , he moved out of the strong light and she saw his face . |
| 6 | From Western Province , he moved out of the first-class game to Boland but last year returned to the South African top flight with Orange Free State . |
| 7 | He moved out of the bright firelight into the shadows by the wall as if hoping to escape further questioning . |
| 8 | By way of contrast , he writes disparagingly of the multinational company that concentrates on idiosyncratic consumer preferences , and gives two reasons why he believes such organisations will lose the long-term commercial battle . |
| 9 | He writes brilliantly of the great circumnavigation of Magellan , of his own voyages around the Horn , through the Panama Canal or up the peak in Darien where Balboa ( not Keats 's stout Cortez ) first spied the Pacific . |
| 10 | Hynes catches adroitly the flavour of poetry and politics in a period when even poetry found it impossible to be politically neutral , and he writes perceptively of the underlying links between such disparate writers as , for example , Isherwood and Greene . |
| 11 | It may be of interest to many , particularly Bennett 's detractors , to know that he disapproved originally of the Main Force having H2S , even the earlier versions . |
| 12 | From Montrose , on 3 February 1716 , he wrote a final despairing appeal to the French regent seeking immediate help , but the following day he sneaked out of the back door of his house , just as his father had left Whitehall nearly 30 years before , taking Mar with him , having appointed a new Commander-in-Chief in Scotland , Lieutenant-General Alexander Gordon . |
| 13 | If he hits one then he bounds about inside the unit , bouncing from foe to foe , until he spins out of the other side , leaving the enemy completely devastated . |
| 14 | He came out of the non-existent sun at 45 degrees and concentrated on keeping the nose pointing just below the tablecloth , remembering that the Lewis gun would fire high to clear the propeller . |
| 15 | On the Tuesday morning he was whistling as he came out of the front door . |
| 16 | He came out of the northern clubs and was loved by millions . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ Because he arrived out of the blue and did his Sir Galahad act by getting me away from the men . |
| 18 | ‘ They 're certainly hiding something , ’ Graham said as he climbed out of the rented Renault GTX . |
| 19 | He walked out of the tiny corridor , through the foyer and out to his car . |
| 20 | A Pakistani called Jansher Khan is the champion , and they will not give him his prize money because he walked out of the official dinner . |
| 21 | He smiled broadly and he turned from her , munching at the buttered scone , and as he walked out of the back door he heard the sound of a car coming on to the gravel in front of the house . |
| 22 | When he stepped out of the high-speed lift , his eyes widened . |
| 23 | Sure enough , they soon saw Mait , as he rushed out of the other side of a grotto they were just entering . |
| 24 | Which was true , Dillon admitted to himself as he glanced out of the rear window once more . |
| 25 | Looking grim as he glanced out of the small , bedroom window , Bodie nodded . |
| 26 | He glanced out of the open door to the garden . |
| 27 | He finished out of the top-20 in the US Open after a final round of 79 . |
| 28 | Diego bust-up : Seville directors will today discuss Diego Maradona 's future after he stormed out of the Spanish club 's stadium after being substituted at the weekend . |
| 29 | He pulled out of the young officer , kicked the sobbing man off the bed , then finally answered the phone . |
| 30 | Had he walked out of the Lebanese embassy one night and come down with an attack of amnesia ? |