Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [vb past] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tilting it to one side he allowed the object to clatter onto the table . |
| 2 | But the man said he believed the shooting of the teenagers was ‘ wrong ’ , and that by the morning after the shooting he realised the relevance of what he had witnessed . |
| 3 | This is Dickens 's final comment , and in future he avoided the topic of school education . |
| 4 | In one stride he crossed the bar , and had the young man 's collar in one hand , the other knotted into a fist beneath his jaw . |
| 5 | Without waiting for a reply he crossed the room . |
| 6 | He 's got to , Simon 's got the name and address of the kiddie he sold the bike to . |
| 7 | By a supreme stroke of irony he got the job , with the possibility of taking over as kapellmeister on the death or retirement of the ageing and sickly incumbent , Leopold Hoffman . |
| 8 | In disgust he threw the paper into the crowd . |
| 9 | At yesterday 's installation ceremony he told the audience : ‘ I adopted Middlesbrough and it now turns out Middlesbrough has adopted me . ’ |
| 10 | In the back of his mind he knew the air in the Base was getting staler as the crisis progressed , but he could n't afford to worry about that now . |
| 11 | With this in mind he approached the Reservoir Quality Prediction team in March and geologist Andrew Hogg and petrophysicist Susan Young set to work . |
| 12 | With one part of his mind he logged the fact that Mum had understood the worst immediately and must in some way have been expecting it . |
| 13 | At this point in Uncle Albert 's path around his study he reached the fireplace and caught sight of the clock on the mantlepiece . |
| 14 | Though their controller of programmes in Scotland indicated , in an interview he gave The Scotsman earlier this year , that many of the aims and aspirations of the Scottish task force had been incorporated , in his view , in the final version of ‘ Extending Choice ’ , John Birt 's mission statement for the future of the BBC . |
| 15 | When he reached the open doorway he booted the parcel into the room and whirled around to slam the door behind him . |
| 16 | And as the all-too-solid original took a single step out from the doorway he dropped the loop of wire over its head and , like a man straining to start an outboard motor , suddenly hauled it tight for all he was worth . |
| 17 | Small wonder therefore that as a drama critic he grasped the significance of R. C. Sherriff 's famous play , Journey 's End , in 1929 . |
| 18 | In the last chapter he described the birth of his son . |
| 19 | Fired up by that ambition he turned the Supper on end , and began to squeeze burnt umber directly on to the canvas , spreading it with a palette knife until the scene beneath was completely obscured . |
| 20 | With a high sense not only of justice but of dramatic effect he informed the judge that the only courses open to him were ‘ either to resign your post , or inflict on me the severest penalty if you believe that the system and law you are assisting to administer are good for the people ’ . |
| 21 | Regarding industry he stressed the importance of developing medium and large enterprises and of strengthened planning for " important means of production " . |
| 22 | Then he pushed him towards the light , and in the light he saw the face of a boy of twenty . |
| 23 | Strangely drawn to the light he unearthed the dragon armour of Aenarion . |
| 24 | By its light he connected the hand to the arm of a dark suede coat . |
| 25 | He held a copy of Milton 's works in his hands , but whenever he quoted from the poet he held the book aloft , like the Gospel at High Mass , sometimes going so far as to wave it to and fro behind his head as he chanted out the words . |
| 26 | But in the long term he opened the way to the great revolution in industry that came with the advances on his original idea , made by such as James Watt and Richard Trevithick ( qq.v . ) . |
| 27 | With a quick reflex action he caught the tompaw , a short stout wooden handle with a steel claw set in the end , and thumped it into the first deal of the day . |
| 28 | Defending his decision to meet with the South African delegation he said the conversation had dwelt on the future and potential business investment in the country . |
| 29 | By the convention in force he had the duty of suggesting the name of a successor . |
| 30 | When at last he was satisfied with the elevation he supervised the loading ; a dry wad over the cartridge and then a damp one . |