Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE gunman in the Darlington siege loved his girlfriend so much he resorted to violence in a fit of jealousy , it was claimed last night . |
| 2 | Perhaps he had in mind profits collapsing or the inability of the industry to finance its capital programme . |
| 3 | So he looked at Matron , tight-faced and armored in starch , at Miss Guttner sitting lumpishly beyond her , her glasses shining blankly as they picked up the overhead light that filled the room with a necessary illumination against the heaviness of the sky pressing grayly against the windows . |
| 4 | So he went to school . ’ |
| 5 | And so he went from day to day , from one business deal to the next , pouring his heart and soul into his land agency business , trying to forget , always trying to forget , but being made to remember all the more . |
| 6 | And so he set to work : despite the usual interruptions , by the end of the year he managed to complete drafts of two acts which he dispatched to Martin Browne . |
| 7 | And laid them : thus he came at length |
| 8 | Soon he came to value this practice very much . |
| 9 | Soon he asked for payment and William complied . |
| 10 | My own landlord did , in fairness , give me veiled offers of money ( bribes ) to move elsewhere but in all honesty I simply was n't streetwise enough to figure out what exactly he had in mind . |
| 11 | Still he knelt in front of her , and Maria sat forward , lifting a hand and laying it open-palmed against the side of his face for a moment before tracing the angle of his cheek with gentle fingers . |
| 12 | As always he waited for Garry to decide what games were to be played . |
| 13 | Thereafter he lived for society and gossip , projecting a ‘ History of his Times ’ , the materials of which were to be his long , delightfully observant letters to his favourite stepdaughter , Elizabeth Ord . |
| 14 | She would verbally attack her husband but the more she shouted the more he withdrew from confrontation . |
| 15 | So undeserving of it was Jacob , that we might have accused God then of arbitrary favour , worse , of siding with the oppressor instead of the oppressed , as once he seemed to side with Sarah and Abraham against Hagar and Ishmael . |
| 16 | But at least in introducing the 1983 Annual Report a few months later he announced with pride ‘ Your Committee has brought out the Bondholders ! ’ |
| 17 | Five minutes later he flopped on top of me . |
| 18 | Five hours later he died of arsenic poisoning . |
| 19 | After reversing one move his feet slipped , followed rapidly by his hands , and a moment later he landed on top of me with a crash of flailing limbs and a clatter of runners . |
| 20 | Five days later he returned to hospital , when the hip injury was discovered . |
| 21 | Later he fell in love and eloped with one of the housemaids , whom he married . |
| 22 | A second later he yelled in agony , as the twin bones of his left forearm snapped like boxwood against the rigid bar of Angel One 's downward forearm block . |
| 23 | Later he lay in bed beside Anne , trying to think of a satisfactory yet thoroughly non-committal story to tell the police . |
| 24 | Later he travelled by train when the station was opened and money would allow . |
| 25 | A year later he collapsed from exhaustion but insisted in carrying on with eight shows a week . |
| 26 | Just over three weeks later he won on Physicist at Fontwell Park . |
| 27 | She was the taller and also he ran with difficulty , but she was used to the coupling and minded nothing . |
| 28 | He was charming , and found women desirable , so inevitably he weakened from time to time . |
| 29 | Inevitably he came into conflict with the developers , who lobbied successfully to destroy his project . |
| 30 | Now he stepped in front of me . |