Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] the [noun] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For his part the comedian says he understands why the man was so upset , though not his racism . |
| 2 | Brushing aside our thanks he asked when the anniversary was . |
| 3 | And as soon as he got home the pressure was off |
| 4 | When he got there the marquee was already filling up with Hammond Wilde 's lunch guests . |
| 5 | How does he know where the dog is ? |
| 6 | He described how the ladder was to be set up against the wire , how people were to clamber over and how they were to swing themselves clear through the gap at the end . |
| 7 | The watchman went to tell the local Chief and when he came back the body was gone . ’ |
| 8 | When he woke up the music was still there . |
| 9 | So when he woke up the donkey was looking at him . |
| 10 | It was n't brilliant oratory , no flowers of rhetoric à la Curzon , or subtle " nuances " à la Balfour , but it was good hard sound commonsense and the way he showed up the government was admirable . |
| 11 | If he misses then the shot is his last for that turn . |
| 12 | At the Battle of Stirling Bridge , he took the field against Wallace but , when he saw how the battle was proceeding , changed sides once more and shared in the Scottish victory . |
| 13 | Ranulf studied the painting curiously and felt a shiver of apprehension as he saw how the sinners were thrust into hot ovens , cauldrons of boiling oil , or broken on huge revolving cartwheels . |
| 14 | He knew instantly the driver was intent on killing them . |
| 15 | I wound down the window and asked him if he knew where the dolmen was . |
| 16 | Now he knew why the lights were out . |
| 17 | One of the prison warders , he said , had asked him if he knew when the men were to be released . |
| 18 | In Ease and Endurance , the continuation of the autobiography which Boulestin wrote in French under the title of A Londres Naguère and which was published after his death in a somewhat harum-scarum translation by Robin Adair ( at one point Adair has Boulestin exploring the Cecil Hotel in a taxi ) , he tells how the place was crammed night after night with customers from the Savoy , Ritz and Carlton belt , stage stars , artists , writers , royalty and High Bohemia . |
| 19 | He felt sure the girls were creaming their pants for him . |
| 20 | The man stripping off his helmet as he strode down the room was tall and broad-shouldered , and moved with the leashed power of the hunter . |
| 21 | When he looked up the light was pearly and the sky a blue so tender he could hardly take his eyes off it , with the result that on several occasions he collided with people coming the other way . |
| 22 | He looked where the vole was pointing and suddenly remembered the place . |
| 23 | When he looked back the gas-bag was roaring , a spherical furnace illuminating the early dusk . |
| 24 | He smiled whenever the name was used . |
| 25 | Then he remembered how the Worm was said to feed off hatred . |
| 26 | But he said later the singer was content to leave the public to form its own conclusions . |
| 27 | Well he knows where the , he knows where the money is |
| 28 | And when Gómez did not answer , he swung round on her and said , ‘ Does that mean he knows where the ship is ? ’ |
| 29 | At p. 254 he explained how the judges were using a power derived from the Crown as the fountain of justice when they conferred authority on the benchers of the Inns of Court to act as their delegates in maintaining the discipline of the Bar . |
| 30 | He demonstrates how the pencil is the perfect medium for his subject . |