Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] he [verb] the " 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 | But surely there should have been more help for him at the beginning , when he first found out he carried the virus . |
| 3 | When he came back he rang the bell . |
| 4 | He sent me into the pub to have a drink , and when I came out he had the two back shoes on . |
| 5 | When he came round he saw the side of the train had been ripped open . |
| 6 | As he came closer he saw the old Georgian mansion was illuminated with lights in all the windows . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | As he straightened up he heard the joints pop and winced . |
| 12 | And he did n't like what he heard So he trashed the monitors . |
| 13 | And then as he turned and walked away he took the blackjack , which had come out of his pocket in the same handful , and tossed it into the first unblocked drain that he saw . |
| 14 | Denis Wirth-Miller attended a talk he gave at Goldsmiths ' College and observed how he galvanised the audience . |
| 15 | Hillier , 49 , of Heddington , Wilts , was jailed in July after Winchester Crown Court heard how he cheated the taxman of £40,000 through secret payments to players . |
| 16 | Martin Grant 's parachute malfunctioned immediately he left the aircraft . |
| 17 | As the ground drifted up he saw the barbarian standing stock still , chest heaving , arms hanging loosely by his sides . |
| 18 | When Dulé looked back he smelled the burning of the Rebecca on the breeze ; his companions told him that the column of pitchy smoke rose in the dawn like an offering . |
| 19 | He knew how he wanted the last scene to look . |
| 20 | Presumably Maurin knew when he asked the couple to take her in . ’ |
| 21 | It was uncanny the way that he always knew when he reached the pew . |
| 22 | Before his death , the late Earl himself revealed how he suspected the estate was haunted by his father 's spirit . |
| 23 | When he got there he pressed the button on the entryphone , waiting for the crackle of her distorted voice , but there was nothing . |
| 24 | I asked how he viewed the invasion by other southern factions . |
| 25 | For the first time ever he realised how he missed the woman when he did not see her . |
| 26 | Edward , leaden with gloom , waited for the kettle to boil ; as he did so he watched the steady progress of a wood-louse across the wall behind the sink . |
| 27 | Did n't he give the letters up ? ’ |
| 28 | Why did n't he consult the others ? ’ |
| 29 | Did n't he feel the pain , the stickiness ? |
| 30 | why did n't he get the bloody thing up there then that 's |