Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | There is a photograph that preserves him forever racing down the face of a twenty-five-foot wave . |
2 | Somehow Dr Neil 's touch did not seem to affect her as badly as that of most men , even though in the cab home sitting so near to him nearly brought on the kind of faintness which she had felt on the walk home from church . |
3 | You took the job with him simply to clear up a mystery . |
4 | The personal representative may suffer because it may not be possible for him fully to wind up the estate and to obtain a discharge from his fiduciary responsibilities . |
5 | He had come to Salzburg from his parental home in Augsburg in 1737 to study at the University with the intention of becoming a priest , but his love of music had led him instead to take up an appointment initially with the Canon of Salzburg before joining the Archbishop 's household . |
6 | Then he slowly held up the object he had carried from the car — the object he had found in the gas station . |
7 | He eventually hoiked out a piece of paper with a phone-number on it . |
8 | In other words , rather than introducing other , more persuasive factors , he merely sets up the court as the arbiter of a medical issue , and decides that , of all the criteria involved , the crucial ones for determining how the individual is to be regarded by the law are the biological criteria . |
9 | He gently pushed back a strand of her inky black hair . |
10 | He admitted that mistakes had been made in the five months since he personally took over the government , especially in the slow pace of privatisation . |
11 | Mr Yeltsin admitted that mistakes had been made in the five months since he personally took over the government , especially in the very slow pace of privatisation . |
12 | To her intense dismay and astonishment , he suddenly hurled down the room in a series of cartwheels ; he made a whizzing plaything of his devilish masked self , a fizzing Catherine wheel , flashing arms and legs , landing on his hands before her , his upside-down false face obscured by hair both false and real , tumbling over his papier-mâché cheeks . |
13 | He just took out a knife and slashed the silk screen and that was that . ’ |
14 | Where your mum lived he just lived down the corner . |
15 | ‘ It 's some high school kid called Henry Stych , ’ he finally wheezed down the telephone . |
16 | He normally hung about the house all day and disappeared before his father brought the sheep back from pasture so as to avoid milking time . |
17 | And the BOR is a friendly fellow too ; he may sometimes be a rough diamond , he may swear and complain about the weather , the food , the British Government , but he shrewdly weighs up the people he meets . |
18 | During a protracted confrontation with a drunken heckler he deservedly came out the winner both on points and then with a clear knockout ; the humiliated toper slinking out by a side door . |
19 | Because I think I would have thought he 'd stop doing that now , but Pam said he still runs down the bottom of the garden . |
20 | In London he gradually took over the Underground system and came to control every line except the Metropolitan . |
21 | does cos he always looking out the window . |
22 | Every time some new one comes out on the market he always calls up the maker and tells them about the small pools win he 's just had . ’ |
23 | He quickly tipped out the contents : an apple , a new scarf , an orange , reindeer money , a new game and … nothing else . |
24 | As Amiss placed the tray on the table beside Glastonbury 's bed , he quickly sized up the room . |
25 | She watched as he quickly sized up the situation and then took command . |
26 | Without asking if he could smoke , he quickly took out a cigarette and lit it , and then belatedly offered her one . |
27 | He quickly carried out a series of bizarre bank raids , claiming he was wired up as a ‘ human bomb ’ . |
28 | He quickly built up a reputation for his dry wit . |
29 | He quickly stubbed out the cigarette , replaced his head and raced back up into the daylight to entertain the kids . |
30 | She opened her mouth again and he quickly held up a hand . |