Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [adv prt] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Television crews were invited to stand in front of the US Embassy and film a senior member of the staff , in black tie and dark suit , as he slowly wound up the folding door of an inconspicuous , metal-framed garage . |
| 2 | As for Lee Marvin , he eventually gave up the hard liquor . |
| 3 | And when in 1973 the Lord Chief Justice was asked to ‘ give some guidance upon the phrase ‘ cohabiting as man and wife ’ he swiftly handed back the poisoned cup , saying that the phrase was ‘ so well known that nothing I could say about it could possibly assist in its interpretation hereafter ’ . |
| 4 | He impulsively ran down the last flight of stairs . |
| 5 | They seem to have bullied him and made him er , make concessions , and the question that Freud and Bullett constantly ask is , why did Wilson make these concessions , especially since his position was already defined before he came to Europe , you know he already laid down the fourteen points , and sold it to the American people . |
| 6 | For five hours he did n't once open his mouth to offer advice or even give an opinion and , when he checked the takings at the end of the day , although we were two shillings and fivepence light from a usual Saturday , he still handed over the sixpenny piece he always gave me at the end of the week . |
| 7 | He calmly picked up the fallen keys , climbed into the car and drove away , leaving the widow staring at her dead husband . |
| 8 | Lyell made people aware by the 1830s of the great age of the Earth , and he also divided up the Tertiary period , using a statistical method based upon the proportions of existing species found among the fossils . |
| 9 | He also filled in the usual trader 's form offering to sell the car to the finance company and sent both forms off to the finance company . |
| 10 | He also set up the renowned Creature Shops to develop animatronics for the film and television industries and which recently made the masks for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles . |
| 11 | He also set about the forced emancipation of the Jews . |
| 12 | After breaking ahead of his experienced Brazilian rival , Jose-Luis Barbosa , he simply stretched out the five-man field , only stepping on the accelerator off the last bend to hold off comfortably the late surge of runner-up , Belgian Luc Bernaert . |
| 13 | Instead of wasting time hawking his book around the publishing houses , he simply printed up the first three chapters , complete with his own photos and illustrations , and took them out on the streets . |
| 14 | He indirectly set up the first try for Kenny Hooks , and his catching and powerful driving off the tail of the line out kept Collegians on the back foot . |
| 15 | He even sounded out the Israeli authorities on the chance for local autonomy , making ( for him ) the dramatic statement that ‘ Jordan is not authorised to decide the future of the Palestinian population on the West Bank ’ . |
| 16 | He even switched on the blue urinal lamp to see how its light looked against the clean walls . |
| 17 | Beaming in avuncular fashion , he then ushered in the cultural festivities . |
| 18 | Pushing his arms into the waistcoat , which he then buttoned up the wrong way in his confusion , he pointed to the girl who had lifted the veil of wet hair from her face and was peeking out of one eye . |
| 19 | He only hoped that no one was watching him , as he almost ran down the unlit passage and out of the back door . |
| 20 | And Alana Jeanette also told the jury how Darren Nichol had unsuccessfully tried to make love to her just hours before he allegedly carried out the frenzied sex attack on Josephine Chandler . |
| 21 | Having no idea of the detonation mechanism , he mentally called up the shortest route to the deck , while grasping the device and pulling it off the wall . |