Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She always observed every move he made out of the corner of one eye , though , and if he stirred in any way , even just to stretch or yawn , she would immediately react and flex herself to take defensive action . |
| 2 | He lived out in the country for a number of years , lived in poverty , erm , he thought about and he wrote about suicide . |
| 3 | Furthermore , when he checked back on the correlation between his simple lix values and the criterion of pooled estimates of difficulty , he found that the figure was 0.92 , which was exactly the same as that obtained from the multiple regression . |
| 4 | Collecting her ticket , she came up behind him again as he checked in for the flight . |
| 5 | Once at Frankfurt 's Rhine-Main airport he had collected the keys of a Golf Corbio from the Hertz desk and driven the twenty-four miles on the A66 to Mainz where he checked in at the Europa Hotel on Kaiserstrasse . |
| 6 | He came back , and he had been very quick , with an umbrella from which , as he plunged in through the swing door , he was tearing the plastic wrapping . |
| 7 | Then he plunged off into the Britches to check the nest-boxes . |
| 8 | He limped over to the window , pulled the curtains across and looked down . |
| 9 | He limped out of the heather , sat on the stones and shook the wet from his fur . |
| 10 | Shielding his eyes against the dust and heat with an upraised arm , he limped back to the corner and peered round . |
| 11 | The drums then took up a regular beat as he stalked back to the coffin . |
| 12 | He stalked off towards the camp 's edge where a huge band of his brothers waited . |
| 13 | Etchings were sent to a printer to make some impressions and someone surreptitiously made copies which he passed on to the defendant who intended to display them in an exhibition which the public could attend on payment of an admission charge . |
| 14 | I did n't even look up as he went up the ramp into the street , so I 'm still not sure when he passed out of the garden and into the rest of the world . |
| 15 | Rachel watched him as he tramped back through the fruit trees towards the house . |
| 16 | Disgusted with everything , he tramped out beyond the town , near to where the public ash dump was situated , and soon found a scene accurately reflecting his inner state . |
| 17 | He hopped out of the water and sat down on the bank next to Anabelle . |
| 18 | With that , he hopped down from the rock , leaving its previous occupant free rein over the throng . |
| 19 | Staying close to the wooden wall , he crept along between the shed and the hedge . |
| 20 | Totally mystified by his experience , he crept back to the booking hall and tried to sleep . |
| 21 | He crept back into the kitchen and made himself another cup of tea . |
| 22 | As he crept in through the scullery window she would leap from her bedroom and conceal herself in the nettles , unconscious of the pain . |
| 23 | " Andrew Stavanger is a fine shipping man — his family owned the fleet before he sold out to the group . |
| 24 | He tumbled back into the saloon . |
| 25 | ‘ Thank you , now take your letter to Hay , then hurry home ! ’ he called as he rode off into the distance . |
| 26 | On Sundays , unless the weather was really rough , he rode out into the hills . |
| 27 | Ward watched him , without any expression on his face , as he rode out through the arch , turned right and was lost to view behind the outbuildings that formed a part of the square courtyard . |
| 28 | At ten o'clock he rode out from the Elysée to be greeted by the cheers of the people , and on entering the Place de la Concorde he was saluted by cries of ‘ Vive l'Empereur ! ’ and shouts of ‘ To the Tuileries ! ’ . |
| 29 | Branch manager Richard Fairhurst took a back seat for the day , as he rode along on the back of a tandem . |
| 30 | He slouched back in the chair , his face drawn as if he realised the mortal danger they were now in . |