Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He made straight for the big warhorse , mounted , said something to Will , and started along the street . |
| 2 | He made off with an undisclosed amount of cash . |
| 3 | A gunman fired more than 20 shots into the building , but as he made off in a stolen car , a soldier fired a single shot from an Army observation post on the top of a block of flats several hundred yards away . |
| 4 | He made off in a W-registered Ford Cortina estate , stolen in Middlesbrough on May 11 . |
| 5 | He lived right on the main road he was very vulnerable ! |
| 6 | In this way he even controverts the view that he lived up to the feared role of private sector financial disciplinarian when he brought qualified accountants for the first time into the head office . |
| 7 | ‘ He plays more on the left hand side which is not my favourite position , I prefer to play on the right . |
| 8 | Yanto 's mind was busy as he meandered slowly through the leafy lanes towards Purton . |
| 9 | He plunged down for an interminable second , arms and legs splayed out in abandon , forgotten , tumbling anyhow , and crashed onto the stage on his back , lying across Bothwell , whose cloak was the colour of blood . |
| 10 | He skips over for the bloody |
| 11 | One day he shied away from an empty crisp bag and fell into a ditch . |
| 12 | SINCE he limped out of the Old Firm game on 2 January , Tony Mowbray has missed all of Celtic 's last 13 matches . |
| 13 | Suddenly he drifts off into a momentary reverie , gradually descending back to earth . |
| 14 | He has received a card with drawings of gangsters on it and threats of a ‘ warm welcome ’ if he turns up for the second-round tie . |
| 15 | The major question thus always remains unanswered in the Critique : every time that Sartre announces that he is about to proceed with the fundamental problem of how History can be a totalization without a totalizer , he turns back to a previous , more easily intelligible stage on the way . |
| 16 | He points out in the British Journal of Educational Psychology that the results of these schemes have been disappointing and it is doubtful whether they have any permanent effect on intelligence . |
| 17 | THIS is intense ! ’ mutters Emilio Estevez , as he flies about in a glowing car . |
| 18 | He passed on to an empty table . |
| 19 | As he passed again on the other side of the road on his way back forty minutes later he was caught up in the very worst time of day for traffic . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , the injection did not work and despite much medication to calm his heart , he passed away in the early hours of the morning . |
| 21 | He crept slowly towards the main corridors . |
| 22 | He skidded hard in the opposite direction anticipating attack , but none came . |
| 23 | I 've been reading Richard Hoggart 's The Uses of Literacy on this journey ; he goes on about the working class not being able to think " abstractly , generally , metaphysically or politically . |
| 24 | Beckett remarks in Our Exagmination Round his Factification for Incamination of Work in progress , that Joyce 's work is ‘ not about something : it is that something itself ( Beckett 1929 and 1972 : 14 ) , and he goes on in the central part of his oeuvre , the trilogy Molloy , Malone Dies , The Unnamable ( 1950 — 2 ) , to create a kind of autonomy of his own — — as the Unnamable remarks , ‘ it all boils down to a question of words … all words , there 's nothing else ’ ( 1959 and 1979 : 308 ) . |
| 25 | ‘ The relief ! ’ cries Howard , as he goes about in an old pair of jeans , mending the roof and painting the window-frames . |
| 26 | If your candidate is going to research the level of pollution in a local river , he does n't stand on the bridge and look ; he either wades in to feel for junk or he goes in with a professional diver to find it . |
| 27 | A horse will soon become used to the excitement of a show provided that he goes out on a regular basis from an early age . |
| 28 | He met frequently with the Congressional leaders of both parties ; and he made considerable use of the telephone in seeking the votes of rank-and-file members while also inviting them to the White House in groups . |
| 29 | But he lines up for the Welsh All-Blacks today , hoping to take another step towards erasing the memory . |
| 30 | ‘ When I first had Sammy he peed all over the blimmin' place . |