Example sentences of "he [verb] [v-ing] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Most probably he got waffling on in the Royal Oak and that . |
| 2 | Then he tried smiling back at the serious-faced child , for this must surely be a tease . |
| 3 | To ask the Secretary of State for Education and Science what proposals he has arising out of the report on primary education by Alexander , Rose and Woodhead . |
| 4 | He describes growing up in the village of the Kxinawa Indians by the Parauaca River , listening to tales of the massacres which marked the occupation of Acre a century ago at the height of the rubber boom . |
| 5 | Never , since he was a child , had he missed coming up to the Foinmen on Beltane . |
| 6 | She glanced back just as she was about to turn a corner , and saw Joe as he came hurtling out of the side-exit . |
| 7 | ‘ After a minute he came staggering out of the smoke . ’ |
| 8 | However , I made my position very clear to the Whaddon and Mitchley Argus sports hack , Mark Crowe , when he came sniffing round at the funeral . |
| 9 | Hers said it was by mistake but I know it was n't and he came wandering out of the wood , all black and shaggy like the Beast in the fairy tale in the most peculiar clothes , very ancient , and dreadful wild hair like pictures of the Prophets . ’ |
| 10 | Then he came roaring back down the road in a cold fury . |
| 11 | He came running back from the grave the day we reached here , saying someone had been tampering , and we could scarcely believe it . |
| 12 | At seven-thirty she had started the engine of the Subaru when he came running out of the house . |
| 13 | He came running in from the dispensary , pulling up his trousers , still held up by his MCC tie , the end of his stethoscope bouncing off his fat tummy . |
| 14 | He came rushing on to the platform just as a train bound for Debden came in . |
| 15 | ‘ He keeps going on about the murder . ’ |
| 16 | but he keeps going up to the gnomes and saying hello is that no he come home the other night and the , we , no the other day Sam he tipped all the bloody soil out of the earth and done something else , he said he 's a naughty boy and she 's said to Sam he wants a smacking he said I 'm not smacking him |
| 17 | He 's also begun to more fully explore the reasons he keeps going back to the mountains despite the terrible cost they have inflicted . |
| 18 | Normally he enjoyed staying over at the firm 's northern hospitality suite which was situated above their offices — bloody hell , he had treated a few girls to his own style of hospitality there enough times — but tonight it was all wrong . |
| 19 | And if he started boring on about the whole being greater than the sum of its parts , I would interrupt him : " Never mind about that , tell me how it works . " |
| 20 | With his much-abused parcel still under his arm , he started walking back towards the city . |
| 21 | He started going on about the life insurance . |
| 22 | He started going out with the girl who introduced him to drugs in the early 1980s . |
| 23 | Yeah , yeah , well he 's I interviewed him er last year and he was telling me that he remembers going up into the loft in 's erm , the whole of the station yard was full of cattle . |
| 24 | He went running off after the boy down the tunnel , dodging people and cannoning into others . |
| 25 | He carried a pale bone which he kept throwing out into the dune for the terrier to retrieve . |
| 26 | He sat on the edge of the bed with his usual cynical observations , but he kept looking out of the corner of his eye . |
| 27 | He kept running up to the cross-street turned right back towards M slowing but glancing at his watch to excuse a half-jog |
| 28 | As he stood on the stage he felt pouring out from the audience that most British of reflexes : the will for the underdog to win . |
| 29 | He remembered staring out from the nest site on a clear cold morning and seeing a line of grey-blue a few miles to the north which they said was the sea . |
| 30 | He remembered waking up in the middle of the night , and then he remembered Miss Tomm walking into the dormitory and saying that the headmaster wanted to see him and Cartwright saying : " Eee , what 's Fleming done ? " |