Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | SINCE he limped out of the Old Firm game on 2 January , Tony Mowbray has missed all of Celtic 's last 13 matches . |
| 3 | He tumbled back against the slick damp wall . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 |
| 6 | He got up into the chilly darkness and went to look . |
| 7 | We never normally talked in the morning : he got up at the last moment and rushed out without a word . |
| 8 | yeah , you see , so we were laughing about this , anyway , Christopher phoned up and said he got through to the second part , he was the only one that was going through to the second part and he phoned up about forty five minutes later to say that he 'd erm , he 'd got the job |
| 9 | He got on to the internal phone and asked for petty cash , not specifying any amount . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | I think he got out of the flat first and not out of debt . |
| 12 | He got off at the next village and waddled away up a street with his bag of guavas . |
| 13 | He got in with the wrong crowd up at . |
| 14 | By the time he got back to the white house Mungo was exhausted , and the signs of his ordeal were plain to see . |
| 15 | He got back into the front seat and we started up the coast . |
| 16 | Charles was handing round the silver tray of champagne , his smile one of pure pleasure and pride as he gazed round at the assembled family in the conservatory . |
| 17 | He had no money in his bank account , and when he gazed about at the huge drawing-room , smaller inner drawing-room and large bedroom , he had no idea how he was to find the money to buy the barest essentials — a few chairs , a table , a bed . |
| 18 | He gazed out through the curtainless window on to the well-lit , virtually deserted parking-area : only his own red Jaguar and two white police cars . |
| 19 | As he gazed out over the still wet cobblestones , all he could see was the glimmer of lights — lights on the barrack square , lights on the sentry posts at the main gates , lights in the barrack huts , and beyond them the lights of the hospital 's east wing . |
| 20 | I kept out of his way while he fussed about with the old banger and went to get some petrol . |
| 21 | He swam around in the cold plunge for five minutes to close his pores , then towelled himself vigorously before jumping on the scales in the rest room . |
| 22 | He was magnificent in doing his job and never surrendering , or even looking like surrendering the lead he built up from the green light . |
| 23 | ‘ So you 've been up the barrow , ’ Jos said out of the blue , as he lined up on the final double . |
| 24 | He headed in in the 31st minute after Wright 's centre had taken a deflection , then scored from the penalty spot after being brought down by Bennett . |
| 25 | From Ireland he moved on to the Outer Hebrides , which he reached on 30 August , and then to his most northerly landfall , Foula off the Shetlands , on 3 September . |
| 26 | He moved over to the other side of the office and had begun searching through a well-stocked bookshelf when the phone on his desk rang close by Folly 's hand . |
| 27 | Athelstan stood for a moment in disbelief , then he moved over to the other bed post : there , in the centre , the artist had etched a life-like horse . |
| 28 | Forester checked the drawers and cupboards before he moved through into the main room . |
| 29 | He moved in to the new , roomier accommodation . |
| 30 | With a look of resignation , he removed his hand , took his glass from Donal , and , that fascinating little indent beside his mouth once more in evidence , he moved off towards the beckoning Dolores . |