Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv prt] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he got up to go to the microphone , I asked him what he was going to sing . |
| 2 | He got up to walk down the hill in the golden light . |
| 3 | When he was in the dining room she would be in the dairy ; when he wandered out to look at the home fields she would be over the lake by Burtness Wood ; when he made his way to the wood she would retreat up the fell and it was pointless , he rightly guessed , as well as being too open to comment , to pursue her onto the tops . |
| 4 | He bent down to stare at the floor . |
| 5 | Oh no , Jinny thought as he bent down to fiddle with the controls of the video recorder . |
| 6 | She said : ‘ After one of his trips to Highgrove he came back raving about the solid gold service . |
| 7 | I just hoped that Tom would feel better about the situation when he came back to work in the New Year . |
| 8 | A few days after that Norman Prince , the founder of the Lafayette , flying long and late in an attempt to avenge Rockwell , hit a high-tension cable as he came in to land in the dark . |
| 9 | He knew there was something odd , which was why he turned round to look into the wings , hoping for some signal from you . |
| 10 | But every time he turned round to look at the black shape labouring after him he was confirmed in the suspicion that Islamic outfits were far sexier than boring old black-leather bras , split-crotch panties or steel suspenders . |
| 11 | He finished up fighting with the Czech resistance in Prague until the Russians arrived . |
| 12 | He swung round to stare at the spot where the barrow of ‘ Trumper , the honest trader ’ had stood for nearly a century , only to find a gaggle of youths warming themselves round a charcoal fire where a man was selling chestnuts at a penny a bag . |
| 13 | Putting the thoughts out of his head , he settled back to wait for the next people who could keep the Americans busy . |
| 14 | but , with , with this walk down into this , this dip so I had to get underneath and I said where 'd you park ? and he said the second floor taking the piss , so apparently three of his other mates who were well dressed up as well , and he , he said race ya , so I started off fucking , so he , he started off running through the thing right , cos said race yeah , he went , apparently I just climbed up the outside of the building climbed up two fucking flights of floors , you know , I ca n't remember anything about it though . |
| 15 | Mr McTear , a former 60-a-day smoker , is suing Imperial Tobacco for damages , claiming that the company failed to warn him of health hazards when he took up smoking in the mid 1960s . |
| 16 | ‘ Now I know what else it was Dr Iverson did when he went through to see to the claret before dinner . ’ |
| 17 | He went on gazing into the flames and she knew his thoughts were too far away for her words to reach him . |
| 18 | He had found he had a good voice and was taking singing lessons , and he went on flirting with the piano and a trumpet he had bought between practising his flute . |
| 19 | But that was perhaps not enough , and he went on to explain to the congregation and to the Prince of Wales as the new President that there was a ‘ more searching question ’ to be asked about validation : |
| 20 | He went on to reflect on the foundation of new branches . |
| 21 | His last years were marred by debilitating illness but , a compulsive worker , he went on writing until the end , dying at his home in Cambridge 19 December 1978 . |
| 22 | He went on looking at the disgusting bits . |
| 23 | He went on looking at the floor , thoughtful . |
| 24 | After a distinguished student career at Emmanuel College , Cambridge , he went on to study at the University of Paris under Suzanne Bastid . |
| 25 | He went on going through the motions of being a poet until the very end , and inevitably , because he kept in practice , hit upon some successes — ‘ gleams like the flashing of a shield ’ occur in unexpected places . |
| 26 | He went on staring at the television screen , not listening to the next item , but trying to work out the puzzle . |
| 27 | He went on staring at the Hare-woman . |
| 28 | ‘ But if he went out flailing with the score at 0-1 in a Test and got out , he would be crucified . |
| 29 | The early career of the great missionary John Wesley showed the problems facing Anglicans in an area without bishops ; when he went to preach in the newly-launched colony of Georgia from 1735 to 1737 the Church of England made no provision for his activity , and he went out attached to the Moravians . |
| 30 | The mother shouted at one of the boys and he went back to sit in the small lorry . |