Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have him bang to rights on the kiosk heist and Special Forces caught him redhanded holding up the auction room and trying to make off with a green canvas portmanteau . ’ |
| 2 | Many may have felt betrayed , but there is little to suggest that MacDonald was any the less of a socialist than others , nor is there hard evidence to suggest that he schemed to bring about the collapse of the Labour government . |
| 3 | ‘ Ca n't be done , ’ she said , feeling shamed by the look of despair on his face , and worse still as he fought to bring back the blankness to cover it . |
| 4 | At the time he expected to touch down the aircraft suddenly ‘ pulled down to his left ’ , he felt the back of the aircraft buckle and was aware of debris coming through the canopy . |
| 5 | Bigwig he asked to bring up the rear . |
| 6 | He was probably one of the first to discover the principle of electrotyping by depositing copper electrolytically on to an engraved copper plate , but , as with many of his other inventions and discoveries , he failed to take out a patent and most of the benefits were reaped by others . |
| 7 | Driving with considerable power , he failed to get over a ball of fullish length , giving Wessels a stinging catch at mid-on . |
| 8 | Oh we used to have phosphate and sulphur , potash , coal , granite you name it anything , general cargo we 've had , loaded everything , even dead bodies , we sent , there was one young , one young person , he got drowned up the coast there and they and he had to go back to Holland and they brought that from out the warehouse and put it on the stern of our ship , his coffin , they sent that back and they erm export er pigs to Poland , all live pigs , pedigree pigs . |
| 9 | He got sold down the line . |
| 10 | He sought to show how the laws imposed by certain countries to attract internationally mobile inward investment could only operate to the detriment of other states . |
| 11 | Norman Dale , 50 , was struck down as he tried to pick up a cup of tea . |
| 12 | In her motherly concerned way , she was cosseting him as he tried to pick up the pieces of his life . |
| 13 | When his father , frustrated after years as a POW , returned , he tried to lay down the law . |
| 14 | He tried to set up the League of Princes , an international peace-keeping force aimed primarily against the Turks , and the exhibition shows the route of the journeys he made to other countries to promote the idea . |
| 15 | There was a distant whistle from behind Chernayev 's teeth as if he tried to blow away the wind that settled on him . |
| 16 | He tried to open out the conversation . |
| 17 | He tried to imagine how the boy would look now that he was nine . |
| 18 | The agent hesitated as he tried to read out the name of the Russian ship from the bill of laden in his hand . |
| 19 | With everyone else gone Tonks had to fend for himself so he tried to find out the truth . |
| 20 | He tried to bite back a laugh , but the grin would not be entirely suppressed . |
| 21 | First he scratched away the plaster , then he tried to pull out the bricks . |
| 22 | He tried to straighten out the brim but it had been curled and folded so often it was beyond repair . |
| 23 | Hovering in the doorway , Wilson heard Mr Browning plead with her to say something to him and then she listened while he tried to make out a case for the French Emperor , to argue this might not be the betrayal it seemed , and that all hope might not be lost . |
| 24 | He tried to sniff back the wetness that had sprung to his eyes , but a few hot tears managed to spill over and course down his burning cheeks . |
| 25 | In the 1860s the first policeman ever sent to the fen village of Wicken was killed when he tried to break up a Saturday night brawl . |
| 26 | He tried to cover up the flutter of surprise by leaning forward and telling the driver it was time to return to New Scotland Yard . |
| 27 | The only rough treatment they got in the first half , worked in their favour , as Jim Magilton was hauled down , but up he bounced to hit home the penalty . |
| 28 | He was always impressed with Leonard 's room , which he found to resemble more a study than a youth 's bedroom — already the style was evident . |
| 29 | In this post he helped to build up the airship service into a major weapon in the war at sea . |
| 30 | As a teenager , he helped set up a cricket club . |