Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he kissed her again he slowly felt for the gusset of her panties , pulled them to one side and entered her expertly . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He deftly felt along the arm . |
| 4 | The Office tells us that he eventually settled in the area known as the county of Richmond . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He eventually scrambled through the door and onto the top of the sinking tanker . |
| 7 | MP for 20 years , when he successfully fought against the closure of Shildon wagon works . |
| 8 | Joe Maitland his boss was very often out buying and selling and he rarely interfered with the running of the store . |
| 9 | In his abstract ballets or interpretations of music , he rarely worried about the mood or emotional content of the music . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He rarely spoke to the rest of us peasants in the house , though when he did he was nothing but polite . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He merely flew into the airport , where the military rescue operation was being organized . |
| 17 | He merely sat at the coffee counter there , hour after hour , alone . |
| 18 | Rainey believes he could n't make a corner at GP speed if he merely sat on the bike without pushing down — hard . |
| 19 | When at last he came to see her , he obviously believed in the story of the German and she was too proud to tell him the truth . |
| 20 | He was 64 — and too late : Boswell had already told Lady Macleod , therefore Johnson could not avoid the embarrassment he obviously felt at the prospect of congratulations . |
| 21 | He only knew of the life he had led in the baby-farming house , one of seventeen young children . |
| 22 | As it turned out , he only came for the funeral . ’ |
| 23 | He only came to the forefront as ‘ governer and ruler of the kingdom ’ , to use Walsingham 's words , ’ after the Good Parliament of 1376 . |
| 24 | This man , who told Huy that he only went to the place to drink , never having had a problem when it came to finding a girl , was looking urgently for somebody to work on his paperbeating team as one of his men had died suddenly from river fever . |
| 25 | Rush insists that he only acted under the strain of mental pressure . |
| 26 | All , including women , were to have one vote , but the educated were to have more in proportion to the level of their education ; this , Mill believed , would provide a safeguard against the ignorance , selfishness and brutality which he so feared in the mass of the people . |
| 27 | For although I am sure he never had the chance to encounter a tiger beneath the dining table , when I think over all that I know or have heard concerning him , I can think of at least several instances of his displaying in abundance that very quality he so admired in the butler of his story . |
| 28 | He idly pushed around the salt and pepper to avoid meeting anyone 's eyes , and then he took out a sachet from the sugar bowl and looked at it with curiosity . |
| 29 | As there was now no room left for the driver 's game , he suddenly accelerated past the man and we were again moving down the street at forty miles an hour . |
| 30 | He suddenly thought of the hat she had lost , searched for it , and found it among some leaves on the ground . |