Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] the [noun] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carson hoped not , as he made out the shape of something like Liawski 's diaries over by the skirting board of the opposite wall . |
| 2 | And Thucydides describes no sharper conflict than that between the aggressive Spartan Sthenelaidas ( i.86 ) and the more cautious King Archidamus ; for the supposedly more ‘ open ’ society of Athens he records only the views of Pericles and an anonymous delegation which does not contradict him . |
| 3 | In one letter to Susanna Highmore , he turns down the offer of a sonnet to be prefixed to Leapor 's second volume : |
| 4 | He ruled out the idea of travelling just as batsman . |
| 5 | He ruled out the deployment of ECOMOG in areas under his control , arguing that this " amounted to the abandonment of Liberia 's sovereignty to a foreign force controlled by a military command " . |
| 6 | He whipped up the back of her skirt , and kneaded the cheeks of her knickered bum with one enormous hand . |
| 7 | He knew in each piece exactly where the real climaxes were and he avoided completely the kind of hurrying or dragging which ruins so many performances . |
| 8 | ‘ At least he understands more the significance of cooperation , ’ the source said . |
| 9 | On his promotion to district geologist in 1902 , he became formally the leader of that group . |
| 10 | But he got up the front of the line and he got the job . |
| 11 | Although he was horribly conscious of his filthy boots , he sought out the supervisor of the office cleaning company by which Mrs. Millings was employed , and explained that she was late only because she had been helping the police to investigate a river tragedy " like a good citizen " . |
| 12 | He emptied out the contents of his briefcase one object at a time before moving on to his pockets . |
| 13 | Will he explain why the perpetrator of the offence is to be allowed to return to the base where Mrs. X 's husband is stationed and where she lives ? |
| 14 | He ladles out the contents of the pot while I am wondering if the laibon thinks it was a handy way to get rid of a rival . |
| 15 | I hope that the hon. and learned Member forgave me when I chortled happily when he read out the names of about four members of the Scottish Conservative party who are in favour of this assembly . |
| 16 | Did he know exactly the kind of dilemma she found herself in ? |
| 17 | He emphasises how the uniformity of this architecture contrasts with the marked regionalisation seen in artefacts and views this as evidence for the native origin of the tradition . |
| 18 | And as he tells the story of one Irish politician who was emblematic of the past — Fianna Fáil TD Sean Doherty — he strips away the layers of fiction and delusion underpinning both Doherty and his critics to touch the pulse of an Ireland distorted by the rhetoric of the newsroom and debating chamber . |
| 19 | When he drew down the top of the blanket Laura gave a cry , staggering where she stood . |
| 20 | He released her hands , and pinned her instead with one hard leg as he drew down the straps of her swimsuit , uncovering her full high breasts to his view . |
| 21 | He caught up the skirts of his robe and scurried after them . |
| 22 | He cast aside the shackles of statesmanship imposed by his minders throughout the campaign to denounce the arrogance of the Press and political establishment who had condemned him as cocky and inadequate to be prime minister . |
| 23 | Will he consider urgently the possibility of the married quarters at the bases being made available to Army personnel who are being made redundant ? |
| 24 | By so differentiating he described both the characteristics of his villagers and the typical gestures which enabled them to tell their tale ( see page 59 ) . |
| 25 | Conceding that over the past 15 years " the transition to the socialist system … has proved difficult and unobtainable " , he proposed instead the introduction of a mixed economy , with a requirement that state enterprises become profitable and with scope for private enterprise , alongside the state sector , in all areas of the economy . |
| 26 | Like Weber , Durkheim was hostile to Marxism , both as a theory of society and as a political doctrine , but he was rather more sympathetic to a reformist kind of socialism , although he seems to have conceived it exclusively in a national context , and he dismissed entirely the idea of working-class internationalism ( Lukes , 1973 , pp. 32–7 ) . |
| 27 | He could see Edgar Lustgarten narrowing his eyes threateningly at the camera , as he paced out the length of Maple Drive . |
| 28 | He gulped down the spread of cold meats eagerly but chewed slowly , like the old man he had become . |
| 29 | He recalled again the game of Find the Penny , and the face of the cub scout who liked to talk about his badges . |
| 30 | He parked nearer the middle of the road than the pavement . |