Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He gazed down at the now peaceful face of the priest . |
| 2 | Using a special pedal-extension device , he faced up to the suddenly enormous-looking Steinway in something of a David and Goliath meeting , and triumphed . |
| 3 | He walked over to the neatly stacked rods and selected one , then bent to pick up a wicker fishing box from a corner of the room . |
| 4 | Before he stepped up for the most nerve-shattering moment of his career Guennady Grishin had kept his nerve to fire the Russians into a 4-3 advantage . |
| 5 | He singled out as the most significant object , a bronze mace 13½ ″ long in the form of the club of Hercules surmounted by a panel of figures in solid relief . |
| 6 | The boy fought wildly for a few seconds but then his right arm was bent back behind him until he called out in the most desperate agony he had ever known . |
| 7 | Then he looked up towards the softly defined slopes , high above the village . |
| 8 | Sucking in a deep lungful of smoke , he looked back at the fiercely blazing funeral pyre for the first time . |