Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As she put her coat on she could hear him rattling about in a conspicuous way with pans and dishes , and talking to Tam . |
| 2 | The yellow nylon shirt with the frothy frill amounts to an offence against taste bordering on the criminal , yet it somehow works to offset his complexion ( pale blue ) and the ensemble enables him to come on like a chat-show host from Hell — vast smiles and arms flung out in gestures of mock formality . |
| 3 | He wanted the youth to go away , for in his mind he saw him fall back with a suppressed scream of terror and pain , holding a handkerchief to his face . |
| 4 | The loading had made him break out in a terrible sweat and perspiration ran down his forehead into his eyes . |
| 5 | And what do his parents think — him going off to a distant town with a stranger like you ? ’ |
| 6 | Fancy him turning up in a snivelling little place like Bethlehem . |
| 7 | Significantly , the one recorded local dispute in which he was concerned ( a violent struggle over the manor of Gregories in Theydon Garnon ) shows him drawn in as a political heavyweight to counterbalance strong support on the other side . |
| 8 | Significantly , the one recorded local dispute in which he was concerned ( a violent struggle over the manor of Gregories in Theydon Garnon ) shows him drawn in as a political heavyweight to counterbalance strong support on the other side . |
| 9 | They did not share the critics ' dismay that bumptious Mr Spielberg should have borrowed that nice Mr Barrie 's little boy , allowed him to grow up as an awful Dad , and then sent him back to learn a few lessons in Captain Hook 's theme-park paradise . |
| 10 | In his Commentaries on the Laws of England published over half a century before the 1870 Education Act , Blackstone wrote that ‘ it is not easy to imagine or allow that a parent has conferred any considerable benefit on his child by bringing him into the world , if he afterwards entirely neglects his culture and education , and suffers him to grow up like a mere beast , to lead a life useless to others and shameful to himself ’ . |
| 11 | We 've got him banged up in a high-security cell . |
| 12 | Havis persuaded British Airways to let him ride along on a New York-to-London Concorde trip . |
| 13 | Then he nudged Wa again , and sent him scurrying off down a nearby alley into the heart of the city . |
| 14 | Len 's mop of unruly fair hair always made him stand out in a crowded goalmouth but , even over 30 years later , he continues to stand out in the memories of Palace fans who saw him play for our club . |
| 15 | She dreamed of him hurtling along in an open roadster , smiling at a blonde head and two scarlet-nailed hands spinning the wheel , reckless on the deep-banked lanes near the summer school . |
| 16 | Those plans hit the rocks amid reports that Jacko was horrified when Madonna told a gay magazine that she wanted him to hang out with a gay dance troupe and become more hip . |
| 17 | Law had indeed already done enough as leader to make his departure unthinkable and so a memorial was drawn up by Carson and signed by almost all the party 's backbenchers , stating full confidence in Law and begging him to stay on with a revised tariff policy . |
| 18 | I ca n't see him sitting down for a quiet civilized three cornered discussion . ’ |
| 19 | His reappearance in 2010 decisively resolves this , at the cost of making him come on like a Californian religious freak about ‘ something wonderful ’ . |
| 20 | What with him moping round like a wounded jelly just because Koo had given him the old Dear John , he was no damn use to anyone at all . |
| 21 | He made off with an undisclosed amount of cash . |
| 22 | A gunman fired more than 20 shots into the building , but as he made off in a stolen car , a soldier fired a single shot from an Army observation post on the top of a block of flats several hundred yards away . |
| 23 | He made off in a W-registered Ford Cortina estate , stolen in Middlesbrough on May 11 . |
| 24 | He plunged down for an interminable second , arms and legs splayed out in abandon , forgotten , tumbling anyhow , and crashed onto the stage on his back , lying across Bothwell , whose cloak was the colour of blood . |
| 25 | Suddenly he drifts off into a momentary reverie , gradually descending back to earth . |
| 26 | The major question thus always remains unanswered in the Critique : every time that Sartre announces that he is about to proceed with the fundamental problem of how History can be a totalization without a totalizer , he turns back to a previous , more easily intelligible stage on the way . |
| 27 | THIS is intense ! ’ mutters Emilio Estevez , as he flies about in a glowing car . |
| 28 | He passed on to an empty table . |
| 29 | ‘ The relief ! ’ cries Howard , as he goes about in an old pair of jeans , mending the roof and painting the window-frames . |
| 30 | If your candidate is going to research the level of pollution in a local river , he does n't stand on the bridge and look ; he either wades in to feel for junk or he goes in with a professional diver to find it . |