Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he came back from Livorno in the late summer of 1913 he made straight for the Café Rotonde , to be greeted rapturously by artists and models on the terrace . |
| 2 | Yesterday , he said he ‘ forgot ’ about the trip which he made shortly after the break-up of his second marriage to Dr Who actress Janet Fielding . |
| 3 | My mother was so dazzled she never even thought to question him about his job , but she grew to live for the visits he made daily to the shop . |
| 4 | She always observed every move he made out of the corner of one eye , though , and if he stirred in any way , even just to stretch or yawn , she would immediately react and flex herself to take defensive action . |
| 5 | Since he made swiftly towards the forest , I had not much option but to follow . |
| 6 | His instincts , honed over the years as he lived continuously on the threshold of danger , warned him that things were about to change . |
| 7 | He lived out in the country for a number of years , lived in poverty , erm , he thought about and he wrote about suicide . |
| 8 | He lived only in the present , caring nothing for the past or the future . |
| 9 | If Mountbatten failed in one item on his agenda , however , he succeeded triumphantly in the other . |
| 10 | Furthermore , when he checked back on the correlation between his simple lix values and the criterion of pooled estimates of difficulty , he found that the figure was 0.92 , which was exactly the same as that obtained from the multiple regression . |
| 11 | Collecting her ticket , she came up behind him again as he checked in for the flight . |
| 12 | He stabbed angrily at the button . |
| 13 | He came back , and he had been very quick , with an umbrella from which , as he plunged in through the swing door , he was tearing the plastic wrapping . |
| 14 | He plunged headlong into the controversy over the architectural style for New Delhi , urging the imperial government to adopt the Mogul style for its new capital as a gesture of goodwill towards their Indian subjects . |
| 15 | He limped over to the window , pulled the curtains across and looked down . |
| 16 | He limped out of the heather , sat on the stones and shook the wet from his fur . |
| 17 | Shielding his eyes against the dust and heat with an upraised arm , he limped back to the corner and peered round . |
| 18 | He glowed now at the Archdeacon . |
| 19 | He drifts back towards the floor . |
| 20 | As he turns away from the grave ( symbolically as well as literally ) he meets , beside the yew-tree ( traditional symbol of death ) a Girl whose appearance is strikingly unusual . |
| 21 | He turns back to the patient , his expression gentle again — there is no trace of a professional ‘ caring ’ in his words or the jarring chord of insincere concern in his voice . |
| 22 | As the Prime Minister savours one of his last few busy days before the deluge , will he think back to the dinner that he gave at No. 10 Downing street last November on behalf of the Tory party for what The Sun — I must quote it accurately because it is from The Sun — |
| 23 | ‘ Allegory ’ would after all imply , to Tolkien ( see pp. 33–7 above ) , that The Lord of the Rings had only one meaning , which would have to remain constant all the way through ; he toyed contemptuously with the notion in the ‘ Foreword ’ as he sketched out a plan for his work as a real allegory with the Ring itself as president Truman 's atomic bomb . |
| 24 | At the Chair he pricked his ears and sailed over the gaping ditch with such abandon that he pecked slightly on the landing side . |
| 25 | Stage shows made Leonard Bernstein a very rich man , but he said he cared little for the money , his great love was for the music . |
| 26 | Friends say he cared deeply for the countryside and worked tirelessly to improve the public rights of way network through his job as footpath officer for the Richmondshire group of the ramblers ' association , which he helped to start . |
| 27 | From a pocket he drew a small cylindrical probe , and he stalked slowly around the room with it , pointing it at every piece of furniture and ornamentation with a sensitive ear tuned to the probe 's faint hum . |
| 28 | The drums then took up a regular beat as he stalked back to the coffin . |
| 29 | He stalked off towards the camp 's edge where a huge band of his brothers waited . |
| 30 | In the next step of the argument , he then said , well , religion is a transference , and therefore a form of infantilism , so now he seems to be criticizing religion , but if he 's criti criticizing religion by saying it 's an illusion , surely he 's jeopardizing civilization , because the danger , as he points out in the book , if you take religion away from people , you say , look , this is just an illusion , God does n't exist . |