Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Suddenly he drifts off into a momentary reverie , gradually descending back to earth .
2 Suddenly he walked back to me and said I ought to avenge my father 's death and that he could help me .
3 But now suddenly he came out with it violently , almost in the manner of Hotspur himself over-riding some constraint that tied his tongue :
4 Suddenly he dashed over to the door and put out the light .
5 somebody else to come and apparently he escaped out of a prison somewhere , she 's
6 Only he ran out of time .
7 Perhaps he popped out for a quick sandwich while Nigel read ?
8 Perhaps he went up to double check , in case we missed something . ’
9 Perhaps he came up against the Edwardian equivalent of a conservation lobby .
10 But perhaps he pointed out to those village children the caddis fly ‘ on four fawn-coloured wings , with long legs and horns ’ ; and the dragonfly with ‘ eyes so large that they filled all its head , and shone like ten thousand diamonds ’ .
11 Obviously he built up to ‘ Space Oddity ’ being somewhere in the middle of the set and about half way through the set , he dismissed the band .
12 Sure enough he came up with the perfect solution .
13 Now , however , Freud expands that concept as well and interestingly enough he goes back to the first term he used for repression .
14 So he rowed out to sea in his little boat , and for three days he neither ate nor fished , but let the tides carry him where they would .
15 So he rolled out without it .
16 So he gets out of the cab .
17 So he hung back for what seemed an interminable length of time , in the shadow of a dripping tree , waiting for them to move on .
18 So he hung about in a lonely spot one night , just where the other fellow was due to pass by — and well , Bob 's your uncle , as you so succinctly put it .
19 So he walked back to the guest house where Ranulf and Maltote were locked in a fierce game of dice .
20 So he walked back into the piazza , while the church bells rang out with a dud sound , for the priest never had learnt how to stop the bell cutting its own resonance on the return of the clapper , and the musicians of the town who could have taught him were all adversaries of the church , like Davide 's father .
21 So he goes out into the storm and into wild nature , together with ‘ the wolf and the owl ’ , while his daughters and son-in-law close their doors on him ( 306ff . ) .
22 So he stays out to the centre .
23 So he got down on his knees , too , and rested his elbows on Bill Brice 's coffee-table , and closed his eyes completely .
24 So he got out of the car .
25 But Fleury knew that his life depended on not being shaken off and so he clung on with all his might , his legs gripping the sepoy 's waist as tight as a corset , his hands dragging on the two broken pieces of violin .
26 Tony Curtis wanted sausages , beans and mash and so he queued up with everyone else .
27 So he fell back into civvy street , heartily pushed by his wearied superiors .
28 So he booked in at the John Radcliffe Cardiac Unit … close to his home in Marlow .
29 And so he went on through the calculator to get the number of ways for ten buttons — 3,628,800 .
30 So he went round to the pool and noticed , at first , how the neat tables were littered with old newspapers and the ashtrays loaded with cigar ends .
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