Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said he had left the house in the forenoon of 24 October and been covered in blood when he returned at 3am the next day . |
| 2 | A former chairman of Swindon Town Football Club has admitted in court that he lied to both the Inland Revenue and the Football League . |
| 3 | He belonged to perhaps the last generation in which it was possible to be very successful in science by making one 's own way , rather than following a standard pattern . |
| 4 | As Seb stood beside Nahum in the chapel , awaiting Anna 's arrival , he glanced to where the six gipsies stood in the front pew of the chapel , brightly dressed , but decidedly ill at ease . |
| 5 | He spotted at once the no-nonsense tones of the Koran , and , as always when The Book was being quoted , kept his eyes on his chest and tried to look like a man willing to leap off his chair on to all fours , ready for total prostration at any moment . |
| 6 | He pointed to where the tiled-roofed church with its grey , ragstone tower peeped above the tree tops . |