Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made straight for the big warhorse , mounted , said something to Will , and started along the street . |
| 2 | He lived right on the main road he was very vulnerable ! |
| 3 | Yanto 's mind was busy as he meandered slowly through the leafy lanes towards Purton . |
| 4 | As he passed again on the other side of the road on his way back forty minutes later he was caught up in the very worst time of day for traffic . |
| 5 | Unfortunately , the injection did not work and despite much medication to calm his heart , he passed away in the early hours of the morning . |
| 6 | He crept slowly towards the main corridors . |
| 7 | He skidded hard in the opposite direction anticipating attack , but none came . |
| 8 | He met frequently with the Congressional leaders of both parties ; and he made considerable use of the telephone in seeking the votes of rank-and-file members while also inviting them to the White House in groups . |
| 9 | ‘ When I first had Sammy he peed all over the blimmin' place . |
| 10 | Later , as he rode home in the cool night air , a vision of old Bert 's delighted face as he presented him with the larger fish invaded his mind 's eye , and filled him with contentment . |
| 11 | Taking a firm grip on the hook , still jammed securely in place , he lunged determinedly into the rushing water . |
| 12 | Edward did not create it from nothing , but he founded a new town — King 's Town — on the old site , which he manipulated especially on the western side . |
| 13 | He gazed slowly around the bare little room , puzzled , shivering , sore , wanting to speak , and trying to hope . |
| 14 | Angel 's fingers drummed angrily on the steering wheel as he gazed moodily at the long , straight road ahead of them . |
| 15 | At All Souls he read widely in the Early Fathers . |
| 16 | Seeing him now in a different light , she studied him covertly as he read quickly through the typewritten sheets . |
| 17 | He diversified too into the booming package holiday and travel business and by 1989 was the UK 's biggest tour operator . |
| 18 | Retired post office worker Trevor , 74 , said Garry was ‘ absolutely hysterical ’ when he phoned yesterday with the tragic news . |
| 19 | Vitor frowned , as though he objected both to the direct approach and to the Dane 's knowledge of her affairs . |
| 20 | He jerked downwards with the powerful muscles of his shoulders . |
| 21 | He moved again to the eastern window and looked out over the cottages of the headland . |
| 22 | He moved away from the strange man , anxious to leave quickly . |
| 23 | He moved lightly over the rough ground , dodging round bushes , avoiding every loose stone and broken twig . |
| 24 | He held another Council in May 1108 on the same model as the last , with a similar representation of lay magnates , but on this occasion he concentrated entirely on the administrative problems arising from his earlier decree against clerical marriage . |
| 25 | He peered carefully at the slim frail woman who stood so resolutely out on the porch . |
| 26 | He dwelt especially on the insulating and prophylactic properties of excessive flesh , remarking at one point , ‘ Without the upholstery of embonpoint the body is a mere skeletal spring , ready to uncoil its very mortality . ’ |
| 27 | A few months later , on 30 January 1937 , he referred briefly to the beneficial effects for German culture which had been derived from the removal of Jewish influence , and at the opening of the ‘ House of German Art ’ in Munich the following July he again scorned the Jewish contribution to the arts . |
| 28 | Shadows drifted past him like fronds , dappled with refracted sunlight , tied with thin streams of bubbles as he sank slowly into the welcoming depths of the ocean , under the incurious eye of the great Whale … . |
| 29 | One Sunday evening in 1942 he wandered aimlessly into the old Memorial Church . |
| 30 | Someone saw him and called the police When they arrived he shimmied right to the very top of one of the chimneys . |