Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] [verb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He turns back to face the front as we head through the late-morning traffic . |
| 2 | He stalked off to find the airport bus to take them to the SNCF railway station at Roissy , leaving Matchsticks to struggle after him as best he could . |
| 3 | As he cruised around to land the oil temperature resumed a normal reading . |
| 4 | He goes on to explain the nature of a specifically Christian order — a society which would construct a framework for the political acts of the state , which would realize the importance of a Christian education and in which a " Community of Christians " , an elite of both laity and clerisy , would influence the values of the ordinary citizens of the country . |
| 5 | In Act One he first of all introduces himself and his job and what this entails and then he goes on to set the scene by describing the general vicinity and its history . |
| 6 | Without naming names , he goes on to outline the situations which had so interested him in the cases of the Melanesians and the Tari Furora , as he points out that to tamper with the pattern of primitive culture at one point is to endanger the whole structure . |
| 7 | He thinks that when he goes on to test the device in human patients , it should prove successful over long periods . |
| 8 | He goes on to deplore the abandonment of ‘ subjects that really matter ’ , and the exchange of ‘ solid fact ’ for ‘ airy speculation ’ . |
| 9 | He goes on to report the gentleman 's recollections of his servant , perhaps revealing inadvertently something about Leapor 's difficulties in the house : |
| 10 | He goes on to consider the work of writers who have explored the nature of the relationship between professions , clients , and the state . |
| 11 | He goes on to make the point that the Scots possessed advanced tastes and understanding in literature , with a Latin poetry that ‘ would have done honour to any nation ’ , but then ponders aloud — no wonder he offended them so — why ‘ men thus ingenious and inquisitive were content to live in total ignorance of the trades by which human wants are supplied , and to supply them by the grossest means . |
| 12 | He goes on to expound the precision with which the cogs and springs of a watch are fashioned , and the intricacy with which they are put together . |
| 13 | ‘ One of the couples is dividing the babysitting so that she stays at home and he goes out to do the babysitting . |
| 14 | as if belatedly recalling his manners , he got out to circle the car , opened her door for her . |
| 15 | From this he moved on to command the airship station at Wormwood Scrubs , and then went to the Admiralty to help in airship design and allocation . |
| 16 | This is very like Pearl , where the visionary landscape he wakes in makes the dreamer-father forget even his bereavement , ‘ Garten my goste al greffe for3ete ’ . |
| 17 | Whether it was the caffeine or Anthony 's taking so much trouble over her , or perhaps merely the result of laying her aching , pounding head back on the pillow , Julia felt slightly less uncomfortable in bed and she told Anthony so when he came back to take the tray away . |
| 18 | Then I was working and my sister Mary started work and my father went out one night and he came back knocked the door and he was drunk as per usual . |
| 19 | Occasionally , when he came back to Cambridge in later years , and especially when he came back to help the university elect another professor of divinity , he would be nostalgic , and say , ‘ I should like to have another go at being regius professor , . |
| 20 | ‘ I left the bloody old gate open and he came in to check the place . ’ |
| 21 | A Rottweiler club member checked him out and okayed him , and he drove over to collect the dog . |
| 22 | He turned round to find the man from the other end of the village standing behind him , dubiously shaking his head . |
| 23 | When he turned back to drape the garments alongside his cloak , and saw that Isabel was still clothed and beginning to shiver visibly with cold , his precarious patience snapped . |
| 24 | He glanced at his watch ; less than five minutes , and as he trotted along to intercept the postman 's route he could n't come up with any plan that seemed remotely workable . |
| 25 | He climbed out leaving the car upended on its roof . |
| 26 | He walked around watching the instructors putting the men through their paces and , as on his last visit , seemed to take a particular interest in what was going on in the boxing ring . |
| 27 | With a disbelieving shrug , he walked round to release the bonnet , and then glanced into the engine . |
| 28 | He swung back to face the walkers , who were stirring now , as if responding to his pejorative comments . |
| 29 | He hung up studying the information . |
| 30 | ‘ Goo ter bloody prison with the rest of yer croonies yow 've got yerself mixed up with for all I care , ’ he bawled in reply , and with that he stormed out slamming the door behind . |