Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] [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 made off with an undisclosed amount of cash . |
| 3 | A gunman fired more than 20 shots into the building , but as he made off in a stolen car , a soldier fired a single shot from an Army observation post on the top of a block of flats several hundred yards away . |
| 4 | He made off in a W-registered Ford Cortina estate , stolen in Middlesbrough on May 11 . |
| 5 | He lived right on the main road he was very vulnerable ! |
| 6 | In this way he even controverts the view that he lived up to the feared role of private sector financial disciplinarian when he brought qualified accountants for the first time into the head office . |
| 7 | Yanto 's mind was busy as he meandered slowly through the leafy lanes towards Purton . |
| 8 | He plunged down for an interminable second , arms and legs splayed out in abandon , forgotten , tumbling anyhow , and crashed onto the stage on his back , lying across Bothwell , whose cloak was the colour of blood . |
| 9 | One day he shied away from an empty crisp bag and fell into a ditch . |
| 10 | SINCE he limped out of the Old Firm game on 2 January , Tony Mowbray has missed all of Celtic 's last 13 matches . |
| 11 | He passed on to an empty table . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Unfortunately , the injection did not work and despite much medication to calm his heart , he passed away in the early hours of the morning . |
| 14 | He crept slowly towards the main corridors . |
| 15 | He skidded hard in the opposite direction anticipating attack , but none came . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ When I first had Sammy he peed all over the blimmin' place . |
| 18 | He tumbled back against the slick damp wall . |
| 19 | He harked back to the golden age of a be-blazered world where all God 's children had the basics banged into them , and video nasties were confined to close encounters with beasties in biology lessons . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Peter McBride , who has two young children , was hit in the back as he sprinted away from a Scots Guards patrol in Belfast 's republican New Lodge area . |
| 22 | When David appeared to ignore the pointed question , he asked again in a lewd voice , ‘ Worn her out , have you ? |
| 23 | Taking a firm grip on the hook , still jammed securely in place , he lunged determinedly into the rushing water . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | We went swimming with Jonathan the other night and he got up on the top board and sort of and he was sort of like hanging on to the bar like this looking over |
| 26 | He got up into the chilly darkness and went to look . |
| 27 | The blue was a flyer , wings trimmed to prevent him from going too high in the action ; he got up in a sudden whirr of fury , looking for a brain blow , but gaffing the dun bird in the breast . |
| 28 | He got on to the internal phone and asked for petty cash , not specifying any amount . |
| 29 | He got down to the serious matter of explaining to the gnomes that the intricate , almost scholarly , Fidchell that the Wolfkings had enjoyed , bore no resemblance to the horrid gruesome version that the Gruagach played . |
| 30 | He got out with a fractured skull — but had a mental blackout and forgot his beautiful wife Kathy had been sitting beside him . |