Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glancing over her shoulder she saw him fumbling frantically to hide the pencil and paper he had been using , and a moment later Jacques Devraux ducked under the hut 's front flap . |
| 2 | Harry is supposed to be coming home to take up his inheritance of the family estate , but the emotional pressures of his family force him to escape instead to become a medical missionary . |
| 3 | Behind the scrum — where Ian Hunter will have to prove he is fully recovered after a spate of leg injuries — Rob Andrew , as suspected , has held off the late challenge of Ellwood , though coach Ian McGeechan will certainly want him to do more to compromise the enemy back row . |
| 4 | His hatred for those who crossed him having once shared the bonds of mutual loyalty was unbounded , but equally he never forgot old services performed , and , apart from the ‘ Night of the Long Knives ’ in June 1934 , he did not resort to purges within the Party . |
| 5 | In front of them , about twenty yards away , he had seen a barbed-wire fence some three feet high which an old corporal told him had already cost a thousand lives of those who had done nothing more than erect it . |
| 6 | As fate had a habit of doing , it had played what he termed a rather dirty trick for although Martin and his father before him had both found the running of the estate anything but easy as far as money was concerned , this young man would be better off than either of them , for Martin had only within the last year taken out two very large policies on his life , the second when he knew he was going to be married . |
| 7 | She saw him frown then sniff the finger , his eyes intense , taking it all in . |
| 8 | He wanted her back , regardless , but some part of him wanted desperately to know the real truth . |
| 9 | He turns away to face the sea . |
| 10 | But he dropped a key ring containing a picture of himself and his girlfriend as he crept upstairs to steal the woman 's jewellery . |
| 11 | And erm , he throws the corn on the cob , he goes inside gets a drink , eats some food cos there 's loads of food cos you know and he goes outside and he goes quick , quick , quick loads of food , loads of food , quick , come on , come on , come on , loads of food ! |
| 12 | Harvey said , ‘ Not when you are around maybe , but when he goes across to see the Wilsons ’ cat … ’ |
| 13 | Castle of Sadaba , Saragossa , and one of El Cid 's strongholds from which he rode forth to attack the Moorish cities and castles . |
| 14 | ‘ So what have you been up to ? ’ he asked finally to crack the silence . |
| 15 | Indeed , he failed totally to answer the two questions that were asked of him , and I know why . |
| 16 | WILLIAM CITRINE , 60 , of Raleigh Road , Leasowe , was fined £80 and ordered to pay £35 costs by Wirral magistrates after he admitted dishonestly receiving a stolen excise licence and fraudulently using it on his vehicle . |
| 17 | During his brief court appearance the former " junk-bond king " wept as he admitted knowingly breaking the law by manipulating the financial markets between 1984 and 1986 . |
| 18 | The baby who is picked up or fed whenever he cries soon becomes a veritable tyrant , and gives his mother no peace when awake ; while , on the other hand , the infant who is fed regularly , put to sleep , and played with at definite times soon finds that appeals bring no response , and so learns that most useful of all lessons , self-control , and the recognition of an authority other than his own wishes . |
| 19 | He wondered whether there had been others , also tucked out of sight , and he tried again to see a connection between the recipients he knew of . |
| 20 | When he went up to bed he tried again to get the thing off , and so did his wife , but it would n't budge . |
| 21 | The journey took him to Harwich , then Norwich , where he tried unsuccessfully to get the medication he needed from the local hospital . |
| 22 | It is almost as if he feels he need only ask the lady in question to join him and she will have no hesitations about accepting his offer . |
| 23 | ‘ So , ’ Charlie was saying as he moved ahead to open the cab door for her , but then he stumbled slightly and muttered a curse . |
| 24 | He moved forward to close the gap again with the tunic back in front of him and his lips were dented white where the teeth had bitten at them . |
| 25 | She would have hurried on after an exchange of greetings and comments on the splendour of the morning but he moved forward to take a snip at a dandelion growing on the grass verge and contrived to block her path . |
| 26 | He moved quickly to knot the boat 's rope through a ring sunk in the jetty . |
| 27 | An excellent organizer and fund-raiser , the movement he created soon became an established part of British life . |
| 28 | Clever western diplomacy could try to make him appear less heroic , by keeping the linkage vague , but then — unless he has belatedly realised the hopelessness of his position — he would see no benefit in it . |
| 29 | The fact that a person was aware of an exclusionary term or notice does not in itself mean that he has voluntarily accepted the risk ( s. 2(3) ) . |
| 30 | Morrissey , formerly lead singer of the Smiths and now a solo artist , is the central figure in this demi-monde and he has successfully mounted a long career based on a delightfully British blend of prurience and prudery . |