Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] he [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This time it proved to be the tunnel 's end , and as he drew nearer he saw the shadowy outline of a ladder etched against the concrete . |
| 2 | As we drew near he took a step forward shining his lantern with its green light above his head as if to give the driver the ‘ All Clear ’ . |
| 3 | But surely there should have been more help for him at the beginning , when he first found out he carried the virus . |
| 4 | In a letter to his friend Gottfried von Jacquin Wolfgang described how he attended a ball that evening , at which the cream of Bohemian society , including a bevy of attractive ladies , was present . |
| 5 | Throughout that year the committee met as a whole only every two or three months , and it seems that much of the running was made by the deputy head , who described how he visited every department to explain the new arrangements and what the library could do for them . |
| 6 | When he got downstairs he found an envelope from his dad , so he opened the envelope and took out the note . |
| 7 | So far Kine had had little success persuading the BBC 's higher management to take his Department more seriously , so when Doctor Who came along he saw a golden opportunity . |
| 8 | When his house burned down he bought a smaller four-bedroomed replacement . |
| 9 | As they drove off he threw a concrete block at each car in turn , smashing the rear window of one , cracking the windscreen of the other . |
| 10 | When he woke up he found a little stain , which he thought must be a map of Ireland , on the sheet . |
| 11 | When they came nearer he did a little dancing step and curtsied low . |
| 12 | And then when the old spinney used to come up again , if you were lucky , he 'd probably He had a probably a little wait before you 'd finished the other , you see ? |
| 13 | And when he came back he got a job in Marks and Spencer 's on the shop floor . |
| 14 | erm And erm when he came back after the war , he actually was so much involved on the parliamentarian side he had to leave Oxford during the war , but when he came back he built a school in the city which was actually in the Guildhall courtyard , it was built round the courtyard , and that remained a free school , for the city 's boys right up to the end of the 19th century . |
| 15 | When he came back he put a wrap round her shoulders . |
| 16 | When he came back he rang the bell . |
| 17 | He sent me into the pub to have a drink , and when I came out he had the two back shoes on . |
| 18 | As he came out he made a break for freedom spraying gas in the faces of his guards and hospital staff who rushed to help . |
| 19 | And a photographer told how he saw a girl of about six so severely burned that a fireman could not bring himself to treat her by dousing her with a hose . |
| 20 | When he came round he saw the side of the train had been ripped open . |
| 21 | So when threshing time came round he bought a considerable amount of liquor which he concealed in strategic places . |
| 22 | As he came closer he saw the old Georgian mansion was illuminated with lights in all the windows . |
| 23 | And then joined so he joined the army , and I was left with this bicycle , and a friend of mine said , How about coming with us on Sunday , you can skip chapel this Sunday , and we 'll go out er we 're going into Derbyshire , and I finished up on Ack 's Edge . |
| 24 | When it flared up he put the coal on , small lump by small lump as Auntie Lou always did , and as Carrie watched him , doing Auntie Lou 's job , all the anger went out of her . |
| 25 | Inspector Mick Barry , of Witham police , said at first officers thought the two older youths may have led the nine-year-old on but it turned out he played a full part in all the crimes . |
| 26 | We had to do this because some chucklehead had provided him with a typist 's chair on castors and every time the truck turned left he did a circuit of the flat-back , sending everybody else flying . |
| 27 | He showed how he planted the young trees in pot-holes where the soil was richer and she saw that after all there was nothing haphazard about the planting ; it had the symmetry of necessity . |
| 28 | It could offer opportunities for embarrassing independent lords , as Alphonse Jourdain of Toulouse showed when he assisted the rebellious inhabitants of Montpellier against William VI ; but his own financial losses when the right to take tallage or forced loans from Toulouse escaped his grasp in 1147 , outweighed any advantage elsewhere . |
| 29 | As he straightened up he heard the joints pop and winced . |
| 30 | And he did n't like what he heard So he trashed the monitors . |