Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] [adv] the [noun sg] " 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 | Bigwig he asked to bring up the rear . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He got sold down the line . |
| 7 | When his father , frustrated after years as a POW , returned , he tried to lay down the law . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | There was a distant whistle from behind Chernayev 's teeth as if he tried to blow away the wind that settled on him . |
| 10 | He tried to open out the conversation . |
| 11 | He tried to imagine how the boy would look now that he was nine . |
| 12 | The agent hesitated as he tried to read out the name of the Russian ship from the bill of laden in his hand . |
| 13 | With everyone else gone Tonks had to fend for himself so he tried to find out the truth . |
| 14 | He tried to straighten out the brim but it had been curled and folded so often it was beyond repair . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | In this post he helped to build up the airship service into a major weapon in the war at sea . |
| 19 | He stopped to wipe away the excrement , which blinded his eyes and coated his lips . |
| 20 | Jackson Chatterton stirred as though he proposed to clean up the mess himself , but I waved him down and kept my eyes on Rickie . |
| 21 | He bent to pick up the curl of hair , which he put carefully in his pocket , next to his heart . |
| 22 | He bent to pick up the card he 'd been carrying then scowled at the deserted foyer . |
| 23 | He yearned to gulp down the coffee that remained , he craved to ask for more . |
| 24 | Did that mean she actually did have a choice , that he 'd given up the idea of evicting her ? |
| 25 | But this was said after he 'd hung up the phone . |
| 26 | As soon as he 'd hung up the phone , he gathered up the toys and slung them , Hamleys bag and all , under the bed . |
| 27 | Earlier that very week , in fact , as he 'd filled up the Jaguar with Gulf-inflated gasoline , he 'd found himself surveying the display of the semi-pornographic magazines arranged along the highest shelf above the dailies ; and re-acquainted himself with such reasonably familiar titles as Men Only , Escort , Knave , Video XXXX , and so many others , each of them enticing the susceptible motorist with its cover of some provocatively posed woman , vast-breasted and voluptuous . |
| 28 | And if Fen thought he 'd done all the chasing there , she 'd eat her hat . |
| 29 | Well this man something wrong and he er had an appointment with a Girran man who was Professor of medicine in Glasgow , he 'd gone up the ladder you know and finished . |
| 30 | Whatever the actual reasons for this , in his own mind he 'd singled out the fact that she must have got married . |