Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , for example , he compulsively returns to the idea that history might consist of several totalizations rather than one : |
| 2 | As he kissed her again he slowly felt for the gusset of her panties , pulled them to one side and entered her expertly . |
| 3 | The fourth shot struck again in the chest , slamming Doyle hard against the wall , leaving a bloody smear as he slowly slipped to the floor , his eyes half closed , the breath wheezing from his lungs . |
| 4 | He deftly felt along the arm . |
| 5 | They were ambling back , Joanna and her late hot lover , a tinker by the look of him , sodden with sex , Hope thought , she too carelessly satiated to fasten her dress properly , he altogether swaggering in the success of his rut . |
| 6 | The Office tells us that he eventually settled in the area known as the county of Richmond . |
| 7 | He eventually comes on the line . |
| 8 | He eventually dies in the ambulance , on the way to a hospital that is n't closed . |
| 9 | He eventually surfaced in the hospital kitchens , where , through his flirtatious manner with a fat lard-like female cook , he had managed to scrounge a free meal . |
| 10 | He eventually scrambled through the door and onto the top of the sinking tanker . |
| 11 | MP for 20 years , when he successfully fought against the closure of Shildon wagon works . |
| 12 | Well I think we 'll have to re-look at the whole question of village envelopes in certain cases , where it is decided that low cost housing is desirable , and see if in some way , they can encourage the farmer to make land available so that he can make some money which he badly needs at the moment , as agriculture 's going through one of the biggest depressions it 's been through for years . |
| 13 | The poem goes on : Gloucester offers to buy Jean 's riding horse ( palfrey ) but , with heavy irony , Jean demands what he most desires from the earl in payment . |
| 14 | Joe Maitland his boss was very often out buying and selling and he rarely interfered with the running of the store . |
| 15 | In his abstract ballets or interpretations of music , he rarely worried about the mood or emotional content of the music . |
| 16 | By stating that he rarely went to the theatre , and needed to be forcibly taken there if he went at all , he managed to lay bare the inadequacies of modern drama and defined the conditions of a new sort of drama altogether . |
| 17 | He rarely came into the office , spending most of his time with his old friends waxing lyrical about his splendid son-in-law to be . |
| 18 | Not that it was going to be easy to improve on the earlier filmed interview when , asked why he rarely practised in the nets , he replied : ‘ I do n't like confined spaces . ’ |
| 19 | He rarely spoke to the rest of us peasants in the house , though when he did he was nothing but polite . |
| 20 | In the Oxford of the second half of the nineteenth century , parochial , preoccupied with spiritual and philosophical problems , the Oxford of Benjamin Jowett , Walter Pater , and Mark Pattison [ qq.v. ] , his interests and experiences must have set him apart ; he rarely figures in the histories and biographies centred on the life of the university . |
| 21 | Nor was he much impressed at the Liskeard inns of the times , or at least one : ‘ … a tavern of despair frowned amid congenial desolation ’ . |
| 22 | Setting her firmly down on the wide base of the large shower cubicle , he swiftly turned on the taps , before joining her beneath the cascade of fresh water . |
| 23 | 5 In 1919 , the year after O'Keeffe and Stieglitz began living together in New York , Stieglitz wrote a brief essay , ‘ Woman in Art ’ , in which he restated his belief in the sexual dimensions of O'Keeffe 's imagery and which , though not published at the time , he apparently circulated among the members of his circle . |
| 24 | The first of these , which formed part of Gloucester 's original endowment , was the manor of Kingston Lacy in Dorset , which he apparently held for the rest of the reign . |
| 25 | The first of these , which formed part of Gloucester 's original endowment , was the manor of Kingston Lacy in Dorset , which he apparently held for the rest of the reign . |
| 26 | Instead , stiff legged , he merely bends at the waist like a man twice his 37 years . |
| 27 | A muscle twitched in his cheek , and she waited in slight apprehension for an acid rejoinder , but he merely nodded towards the radio on the kitchen dresser . |
| 28 | He merely flew into the airport , where the military rescue operation was being organized . |
| 29 | He merely sat at the coffee counter there , hour after hour , alone . |
| 30 | Rainey believes he could n't make a corner at GP speed if he merely sat on the bike without pushing down — hard . |