Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He slung his cloak of feathers over the staff and Scathach helped him to sit down in the slight shelter that this garment offered . |
| 2 | She gave Charles the address , and looked so happy and excited when she asked the Stage Door Keeper to get her the Wimbledon number , that he quite forgave her for keeping him hanging about in the draughty passage outside his box . |
| 3 | It is absurd , every time we introduce another element of our policy , for him to leap on to the populist pitch and then , as he no doubt will in a few minutes ' time , find some detailed reasons for being opposed to it . |
| 4 | Taylor has been to Rome to talk to Gascoigne , whose last serious outing saw him carried off in the 1991 FA Cup final against Nottingham Forest with knee ligament damage . |
| 5 | He is right to change the emphasis of the list and we urge him to stand up to the civil servants who are resisting change . |
| 6 | One view saw Suharto 's motive in encouraging greater activism on the part of Golkar as an attempt to acquire a reforming image to help counteract pressure on him to stand down before the 1993 election . |
| 7 | Second hurdle , managed it a bit better , gave him the signal three strides from the jump , felt him lift off at the right time , felt his assurance flow back and his faith in me revive , even if provisionally . |
| 8 | ‘ Now I can see him going on to the next one , the way he is playing . |
| 9 | The wise dragon so captivates his maiden that she never even has a second for longing , that she turns not from him to stare out across the wide meadows and lakes of adolescence . |
| 10 | Michael let him drop on to the filthy floor . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Is there any chance of him coming out in the near future , do you think ? ’ |
| 13 | ‘ He should have knocked the guy cold and not let him go on to the fourth round . |
| 14 | He 's howling and scr w wailing cos I would n't let him go back in the same chair ! |
| 15 | BRISTOL City striker Leroy Rosenior accused referee Martin Bodenham of being ‘ a disgrace ’ because the official hassled him to get up after the former West Ham ace was knocked senseless . |
| 16 | He returned for his father 's funeral , the first time he 'd been back to Zimbala in seventeen years , and Jamel was able to persuade him to stay on as the new editor of the country 's leading daily newspaper , La Voix . |
| 17 | Owen had him taken back to the underground room . |
| 18 | ‘ Did you see him come in through the back door ? ’ |
| 19 | I helped him sit down on the one centre thwart and arranged his legs as comfortably as possible , Harry cursing and wincing by turns . |
| 20 | At a lecture in Nairobi given by Dr Esmond Bradley Martin , the world 's foremost authority on the rhino-horn trade , she heard him spell out in the starkest of terms why the rhino was on the slide . |
| 21 | I found him hooked up to the interactive software in the starpod . |
| 22 | During a sojourn in Northumbria one of these ‘ academic high-flyers ’ remained implacably ‘ not one of us ’ , and I heard him summed up in the following terms : |
| 23 | As the car which has been sent for him comes in along the odd little elevated motorway , only four lanes wide , most of the city seems to be below eye-level . |
| 24 | In this way he even controverts the view that he lived up to the feared role of private sector financial disciplinarian when he brought qualified accountants for the first time into the head office . |
| 25 | He skips over for the bloody |
| 26 | SINCE he limped out of the Old Firm game on 2 January , Tony Mowbray has missed all of Celtic 's last 13 matches . |
| 27 | He has received a card with drawings of gangsters on it and threats of a ‘ warm welcome ’ if he turns up for the second-round tie . |
| 28 | He points out in the British Journal of Educational Psychology that the results of these schemes have been disappointing and it is doubtful whether they have any permanent effect on intelligence . |
| 29 | As he goes on to the next , I glance at his fingers . |
| 30 | I 've been reading Richard Hoggart 's The Uses of Literacy on this journey ; he goes on about the working class not being able to think " abstractly , generally , metaphysically or politically . |