Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the corner of her eye , she watched him pick up the first coil of rope . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Gielgud gave him another chance , asked him to come back the next day and do it again . |
| 5 | His injuries forced him to give up the coveted mount on Cool Ground . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | And we 'd go across and I would help him to couple up the various coaches and that . |
| 9 | He sat well , she thought , as she watched him turn round the stable wall and disappear out of sight . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | This causes him to fold down the top half of the newspaper , to see if I have set off , and to lose his place . |
| 12 | She could hear Penry moving about upstairs as he made up the other bed . |
| 13 | He made out the black shape of another tunnel mouth . |
| 14 | He made out the high-backed chair to one side of the fire and sank into it , sitting tall and erect , careful not to crease his dinner jacket . |
| 15 | When he wins he turns up the next week as if nothing 's happened — and as if he has n't got a penny to his name , that 's the difference between Seve and others — what sets him apart a bit , I suppose . |
| 16 | Mr Rabin said he favoured allowing some deportees to join the Palestinian delegation , but he ruled out the two deportees on the reported Egyptian list because they were PLO officials . |
| 17 | He 's extremely cheerful , if somewhat misguided , as he points out the many features of the room , and mentions that the public rooms in the Cottage will be opened at seven o'clock . |
| 18 | He points out the surprising truth that an accurate random sample of 1,000 people will work whether it is taken from a population of 5,000 , five million or 50 million . |
| 19 | Will he beef up the public consultation procedures which his Department are currently casting aside like autumn leaves shrivelling on the ground , or do we have to wait for a Labour Government in the full flush of a green spring and summer to bring sense back into our planning system ? |
| 20 | He saw something erm he saw a cat and he zoomed out the front door and he was gone and it 's only when he lost sight of the cat he thought about where he was |
| 21 | As he rode down the narrow goat-trails of the Khyber Pass , Battuta would have known that the Delhi Sultanate was violent frontier country , constantly in a state of war with the pagan Mongols to the north and the infidel Hindus to the south . |
| 22 | His eyes watered so fiercely that tears ran down his cheeks , but he fought down the choking sensation and his self-esteem soared . |
| 23 | Naturally he he wanted to keep his place open and when he got up the next morning somebody had painted the side of the van completely over . |
| 24 | He got out the cheating stick and clipped the peg , swarming up in a daisy chain of quick-draws . |
| 25 | He got out the brown envelope and spread the photographs on his lap . |
| 26 | He emptied out the fired cartridge cases , went across to the sink and washed the gun under the hot tap . |
| 27 | Over the wall , Frear had come in and was talking to one of the waiters as he wiped down the outside tables . |
| 28 | Mr was completely wrong about the Labour amendment erm in fact he read out the wrong amendment altogether . |
| 29 | I 'm gon na have a wee Bill 's bloody worse , he stands there , he looks out the bloody window as much as any bugger . |
| 30 | She was afraid then , rather as a skier might feel when he looks down the steep whiteness of a dangerous slope , or a high diver who seems far above the water , but the sensation was so unusual to her that she could n't be sure that it was entirely unpleasant still strongly mixed , as it was , with curiosity . |