Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even there it would seem that he was known because a woman came to him and asked him to drive out an unclean spirit from her daughter . |
| 2 | From the corner of her eye , she watched him pick up the first coil of rope . |
| 3 | The tide had risen a foot above the usual high water mark , and when they came to cut him free in the morning , they found him hanging on the outer wall — drowned . |
| 4 | Mr Biermann , who is visiting his mother at her home in Elton Road , wrote the books to rebuild his life after a stroke in 1989 left him paralysed down the right hand side of his body . |
| 5 | Gielgud gave him another chance , asked him to come back the next day and do it again . |
| 6 | They thrust him stumbling up a winding stairway cut in the rock , and along another passage into a large , smoky room , blackened and bare but for certain engines and implements that stood against the walls , and a low brazier in the centre . |
| 7 | Chaplin invited Mayer to land one on him , and L B promptly obliged by punching Chaplin in the face , sending him sprawling over a potted plant . |
| 8 | Even if I allow him to scribble down a few paragraphs of his own fiction ( and I do not see why I should ) it still follows that any words he might write must in the first instance be composed by me . |
| 9 | Kendo then took the prey from Fitz , having let him tear out a large piece of the monkey 's intestines . |
| 10 | The improvements keep coming and have inspired him to draw up a four-point plan for Vets : |
| 11 | His injuries forced him to give up the coveted mount on Cool Ground . |
| 12 | To the very last he consulted his own common sense rather than the orders of his doctors whom he detested because they advised him to give up the roast meats that he loved . |
| 13 | However , before she herself was dismissed so that Dorothy could rest , her sister extracted a promise from her that she would set about finding out the boy 's address and , moreover , that Cynthia would contact her own solicitor and have him draw up a new will making Dorothy 's son her sole beneficiary . |
| 14 | She watched him draw out a hot dog , place it on a bun . |
| 15 | ‘ Clinger told me before he left that his lordship had had him in the second Sunday he was there and told him he expected him to switch on the electric fire in the private chapel ten minutes before matins . |
| 16 | ‘ We feel we should fight Mr Butters and let him take on a white elephant while we play elsewhere for a year and maybe we can return to Belle Vue . ’ |
| 17 | And we 'd go across and I would help him to couple up the various coaches and that . |
| 18 | He sat well , she thought , as she watched him turn round the stable wall and disappear out of sight . |
| 19 | But French officials were initially suspicious and the Soviet KGB security police forced him to turn down a French passport . |
| 20 | Oh , it was a disaster , he was er my estimation of him went down a hundred percent because she smoked |
| 21 | She saw him pick up a long strip of heavy material . |
| 22 | She stayed where she was , waiting to see him come down the senior run , and her first sight of his black-suited figure made the breath catch in her throat . |
| 23 | The prince had asked him to take over a small present ; Simon had stuck it in a pocket and thought no more about it , only when he saw Constanza he decided to deliver it in person . |
| 24 | In this extract Roddy 's parents want him to take up a useful hobby : |
| 25 | ‘ I sometimes wonder what people must think to hear him haggling over a few dollars . |
| 26 | She heard Ben come into the market-room , but when the kitchen door did not immediately open , she went over to it and saw him throwing off a wet sack that he had been wearing over his head and shoulders like a cape . |
| 27 | And then , of course , the other five coins would help him set up a useful practice at some safe distance , say two hundred miles . |
| 28 | This causes him to fold down the top half of the newspaper , to see if I have set off , and to lose his place . |
| 29 | I rushed to see a physiotherapist , John Harris , and he made up a little pad around it with a hole in the middle so that I would n't put any pressure on it . |
| 30 | She could hear Penry moving about upstairs as he made up the other bed . |