Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] [art] [adj] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Throwing it open , he lifted out a sinewy and almost reptilian form , holding it aloft and going down the line of young men , offering it briefly to each in turn . |
| 2 | When he lifted out the first and looked through the handwritten pages he found that he was holding Henryk Liawski 's personal diary covering odd and irregular dates between 1952 and 1958 . |
| 3 | He accelerated up a dark and steep hill and finally they emerged on to the flat expanse of Blackheath . |
| 4 | He took over an existing but derelict blast furnace at Coalbrookdale ( q.v. ) which had been set up in 1638 , and in 1709 he discovered the method of smelting iron with coke instead of charcoal . |
| 5 | He earned his first Chair , at Southampton , in 1972 , and in 1981 he took up the oldest and most senior Chair of Archaeology in Britain , the Disney Professorship at Cambridge , where he is presiding over a great expansion of archaeological studies there with the creation of the Macdonald Institue for Archaeological Research . |
| 6 | So he took up the longest and sharpest , wrapping its hilt round in his leather apron , and waited . |
| 7 | He took out a key and let himself into the building . |
| 8 | From his saddlebag he took out a frayed and crease-torn map . |
| 9 | Once settled in an armchair , he took out a shortish but fairly carbonized pipe and began smoking . |
| 10 | He brought up the arbalest but , even as he did , the great two-edged sword scythed the air , neatly slicing the merchant 's head from his shoulders . |
| 11 | He put down the still and took the champagne bottle . |
| 12 | Mooney scored the goal of the game when he burst down the left and hit a low shot into the far corner . |