Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb pp] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh we used to have phosphate and sulphur , potash , coal , granite you name it anything , general cargo we 've had , loaded everything , even dead bodies , we sent , there was one young , one young person , he got drowned up the coast there and they and he had to go back to Holland and they brought that from out the warehouse and put it on the stern of our ship , his coffin , they sent that back and they erm export er pigs to Poland , all live pigs , pedigree pigs . |
| 2 | He got sold down the line . |
| 3 | He helped set up the Troops Out movement which campaigned for withdrawal of the British army from Northern Ireland . |
| 4 | Along the way he has brushed aside the wrath of his fellow-judges . |
| 5 | Over the years he has pieced together the plane 's last , dying moments from the second one of its engines caught fire . |
| 6 | It is also a rather different exhibition conceptually : Alfonso Perez Sanchez , former Director of the Prado and co-organiser of the show , has declared that he wants the Spanish to get to know ‘ the real Ribera ’ , which means that he has whittled down the number of works . |
| 7 | The manager who took Sunderland to Wembley six months ago knows that he 's still not out of the woods , but he has turned back the clock in a bid to stay in business . |
| 8 | The personal tragedy that befalls Gibson 's character in ‘ Forever Young ’ is that he loses his childhood sweetheart in an accident before he has plucked up the courage to propose marriage . |
| 9 | But after a visit to his home by a senior officer of Cleveland Police , he has painted out the symbols . |
| 10 | He has summed up the issue much better than I could . |
| 11 | They also failed to take him seriously , and made him angry , but he has carried on the struggle . |
| 12 | He has taken up the challenge to lead . |
| 13 | In fact , Mr Shiratori has been one of Japan 's representative 's on the IASC since 1984 and is well versed in all the issues ; he is also well aware that he has taken up the reins of office at a critical time for the IASC . |
| 14 | America is his favourite way of talking about the undiscovered country , and it shows that as well as suicide and blanket boredom he has taken over the flavour of Raskolnikov 's joke about getting used to family life . |
| 15 | He has drawn up the list of items below . |
| 16 | He has dumped down the notes for a greyhound , has given his heart to the beast , and is derided for this by his friends in the pub . |
| 17 | More news about Jack is the announcement that he has handed over the reins of the Midland Embalming School to John Davis who , apart from being a trade embalmer has a varied background in nursing , counselling , laboratory work and school teaching . |
| 18 | There are other examples that underline the folly of this increasingly popular practice : Alec Stewart 's average in Tests in which he has picked up the gauntlets lags behind that of Jack Russell ; Richard Blakey 's batting has gone into reverse since he succeeded David Bairstow at Yorkshire . |
| 19 | He has set out the terms of his covenant and they have been agreed . |
| 20 | His shirt is frayed at the sleeves where he has rolled back the cuffs , his skin shows brown down the open front , there are small dark hairs , a glistening drop of sweat . |
| 21 | Did that mean she actually did have a choice , that he 'd given up the idea of evicting her ? |
| 22 | But this was said after he 'd hung up the phone . |
| 23 | As soon as he 'd hung up the phone , he gathered up the toys and slung them , Hamleys bag and all , under the bed . |
| 24 | Earlier that very week , in fact , as he 'd filled up the Jaguar with Gulf-inflated gasoline , he 'd found himself surveying the display of the semi-pornographic magazines arranged along the highest shelf above the dailies ; and re-acquainted himself with such reasonably familiar titles as Men Only , Escort , Knave , Video XXXX , and so many others , each of them enticing the susceptible motorist with its cover of some provocatively posed woman , vast-breasted and voluptuous . |
| 25 | And if Fen thought he 'd done all the chasing there , she 'd eat her hat . |
| 26 | Well this man something wrong and he er had an appointment with a Girran man who was Professor of medicine in Glasgow , he 'd gone up the ladder you know and finished . |
| 27 | Whatever the actual reasons for this , in his own mind he 'd singled out the fact that she must have got married . |
| 28 | Each time he 'd banged out the flames . |
| 29 | The groom said one of her horses died of colic or some such recently , from eating the wrong things , and the trainer did n't want any more accidents , so he 'd made up the feeds himself . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ And get rid of that ! ’ she clearly recalled hearing Naylor tell her — in fact , the way he 'd bellowed out the order , it would n't surprise her if the whole avenue had n't heard it . |