Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 2 December 1793 , having adopted the alias of Silas Tomkyn Comberbache , he secretly enlisted in the 15th Light Dragoons . |
| 2 | His coaching duties with the Scotland sevens squad concluded for the day , he duly appeared for the second half of the semi-final against the relatively fresh-faced youths of White Hart Marauders — inspired by England internationalists , Dewi Morris and Jeremy Guscott , and B caps , Damian Hopley and Justyn Cassell . |
| 3 | In his book , Saturdays were for racing , betting and boozing — nothing else and he rarely strayed beyond the local corner pub . |
| 4 | He had said he had n't seen her in the shop , so he must have called in on occasions when Ann would be in the sweet shop and Arthur Peeble in the tobacconist 's or her father was there taking Peeble 's place ; he rarely served in the sweet shop . |
| 5 | He rarely survived to the final reel , because the notion of Van Cleef nobly agreeing to a duel in a deserted street was ridiculous . |
| 6 | He merely sat on the only chair in my room , shook his head and told me to sleep , and that it would be best if we shared the same chamber that night . |
| 7 | ‘ A concession he obviously exercised to the full , ’ she contented herself with murmuring instead , her eyes dancing with amusement as she enjoyed his discomfort , a feeling of relief pervading her that she was about to locate Suzie at last . |
| 8 | Whereas if he only waited till the seven years were up , all the given property would be his without any tax . |
| 9 | He was glad because — well , not having kids before , he only thought about the nice side of being a dad , he did n't think about the bad side . |
| 10 | But sometimes he only thought of the next performance . |
| 11 | He only comes to the odd party . |
| 12 | He only entered for the Foreign Office and the block plan , with a total of ten drawings , and was awarded one of the fifth prizes for his Foreign Office design . |
| 13 | He literally travelled from the Arctic to the Amazon in the course of one year , as well as attending his patients in downtown Toronto . |
| 14 | What told most against Pétain , however , was that while Joffre , Foch and de Castelnau all swam vigorously with the current , he alone stood against the prevailing tide of the de Grandmaison movement . |
| 15 | He just stared into the dreadful dark depths of the old female 's shelter waiting hopelessly for some sign that she was alive . |
| 16 | Now he just brawls with the bad guys . |
| 17 | And he just turned round the other belt him ! |
| 18 | And he just dived into the bloody office . |
| 19 | He just moved to the other side of the bed , and lay on his back . |
| 20 | In torrential rain he easily sped past the 500 class 's dry weather superstars , closed on leader Wayne Rainey , eventually finishing a brilliant second to the world champion . |
| 21 | Lord Palmerston was a notorious rake , having had a long-standing affair with Lady Cowper , whom he finally married in the late 1830s . |
| 22 | He finally bowed to the inevitable after revelation upon revelation about his seedy affair with soft-porn starlet Antonia de Sancha and freebie holidays hosted by PLO chief 's daughter Mona Bauwens and an Arab sheik . |
| 23 | He finally bowed to the inevitable after 61 minutes , when he was visibly hobbling around . |
| 24 | The war on the Western Front in 1917 — 18 had turned Chesterton into an alcoholic , a condition which he finally controlled in the later 1930s , thanks to the generosity of Mosley who financed his cure at a special clinic in Germany . |
| 25 | He finally slumped against the nearest crate and stared at the dimpled area around the bung . |
| 26 | Winchester 's next posting was to Cyprus to build defences , but he soon returned to the Western Desert , where , between May and September , he was involved in desperate rearguard actions — the battle of Gazala , followed by Alamein in July , when Auchinleck checked Rommel , who was then within striking distance of Alexandria . |
| 27 | He thus returned to the Soviet capital under very different circumstances from his last visit 22 years earlier , when he had been brought to Moscow and forced to give his approval to the invasion . |
| 28 | Is he not worried about the rising scale of explosions and the rising tide of murders that are taking place ? |
| 29 | François Daulte 's catalogue of the oil paintings of Frédéric Bazille , the most recent volume in the distinguished series of monographs of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century French masters published by the Bibliothèque des Arts , deals with the promising talent of a young artist who might have become one of the great figure painters of his generation , had he not died in the Franco-Prussian war in 1870 , at the age of twenty-nine . |
| 30 | He promptly keeled to the left and slumped in the driving seat with a smile on his face . |