Example sentences of "he [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With powerful leg strokes he made for the assault boat from which new flares were being fired . |
| 2 | He made for the side exit , away from the man . |
| 3 | Straight and fast flew Bower-bird as he made for the mountain top . |
| 4 | He made for the travelling bookshop , where he found Jeffrey Archer sitting at a portable desk to one side of the bookstall . |
| 5 | Their scent came up to him as he made for the stage door , thrusting his note carefully among the rain-wet blooms . |
| 6 | His head ached as he made towards the observation point above the cottages . |
| 7 | The Argentinian football star Ossie Ardilles has admitted he made under the counter cash payments to players while managing Swindon town football club . |
| 8 | Instead , he lived by the church bells of London and occasionally a sundial , as did almost everyone else there . |
| 9 | True , both the English and the Latin forms indicate he lived by the ash tree , but did they merely permit the taxatores to avoid confusing him with all the other Johns who lived in the same village ? |
| 10 | He lived in the Villa Diodati with his doctor , ‘ Polly ’ , the Italian , Polidori , and his retinue . |
| 11 | He lived in the ground floor flat of a large ugly villa in Auhmühle , thirty miles south of Hamburg , convenient for naval reunions there and for walks in the adjacent forest . |
| 12 | Speech , or even music can he transmitted along the electricity mains . |
| 13 | He plays along the back line and in midfield . |
| 14 | Too easy , he realised as the metal panel dropped behind him . |
| 15 | Doone pondered , made up his mind , went out to his car and returned carrying a five-foot plank which he laid across the kitchen table . |
| 16 | ‘ But we have a hectic business schedule tomorrow , ’ he drawled as the lift doors slid open . |
| 17 | Fenna dived low over southern Africa , where his shadow presence in the night would simply meet with old dreams and young magic , and he plunged into the dancing spume of Mosi oa Tunya , ‘ the smoke that thunders ’ , now called the Victoria Falls . |
| 18 | By the time he limped to the scullery door she was back again , broom in hand , and had begun attacking mud that had been tramped inside the kitchen during the past week . |
| 19 | He swooped across the market square in Antioch , while the crowd fell back appalled , and opening his huge mouth , like a salmon to a fly , snapped Margaret up . |
| 20 | He turns to the City Pages . |
| 21 | He contributes to the pension fund and has taken out life insurance . |
| 22 | The other emerges when he remarks in the opening lines ‘ the regular yet halting rhythm , the smooth uncertainty of movement which may either proceed to greater regularity or fall away into improvisation ’ . |
| 23 | The man with the sting made his living trawling for prawns , and fishing for mero , which he sold to the holiday village cafés , for a better price than he got from the locals . |
| 24 | Well first of all I 'd go down Street and up Street West and up to the top of Street and there was some puddling furnaces , the new side iron works and I 'd watch those men they 'd produce wrought iron and during the process the metal boils up and I 'd have to get a big rubbling bar and rubble they 'd call rubble into a ball , there 's a little wagon put underneath the put under the wagon and off he goes to the steam hammer , now I used to be fascinated with this and Saturday after Saturday I used to go up there and watch one of the heats and as soon as they 'd finished doing they used to go into the Forge and Hammer for a drink , I mean it was such hard work so they 'd do a heat go up the Forge and Iron and come back and then do another heat when I 'd |
| 25 | If he goes to the pub Stuart would probably know him anyway . |
| 26 | Wind is in such a big way and if he goes to the planning appeal and one thing or something , it 'll skin this bloody , it 'll , it 'll skin this bloody town |
| 27 | Chatam had not been seen in public since finishing fourth to Sibton Abbey in the Hennessy at Newbury in November , and Pipe said yesterday : ‘ It was a fine run considering he had been off the course for so long and he goes for the Gold Cup with every chance . |
| 28 | And also of course he goes on the building sites he 's still wearing a suit . |
| 29 | They are more likely to enjoy the games themselves , and so can help the patient to have fun as he goes through the relearning process . |
| 30 | and that 's put on and if , we say for argument sake that er she was married , we know she 's not , but she could be and her banns are in and her husband gets wind that she 's getting married again , you know , so he goes into the registrar office has a look , and she 's already married to me and this is what it 's for |