Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He you could see him really took up to them . |
| 2 | Aveling preferred actresses , but they were more difficult to locate once he left New York , and he rather looked down on what passed as theatre in America , although he admired Buffalo Bill 's Wild West Show . |
| 3 | The answer is an all-too-simple one : by the time he courageously signed on as a volunteer infantryman , John was in the terminal stages of consumption . |
| 4 | There was no more sound , so he slowly reversed back into the road as the Sturmabteilungen from the gate carne up to investigate . |
| 5 | Then , proudly and smiling , he slowly walked back for the presentation , his friends dancing round him patting him . |
| 6 | Two weeks ago he secretly flew back to Sarajevo to speak to 10-year-old Natasha Mihaljcic 's only surviving relative . |
| 7 | He eventually parachuted out of the aircraft and was arrested . |
| 8 | She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin . |
| 9 | At first they talked easily about David 's chances of demobilisation , and the kind of law he would practise when he eventually got back to London , and his prospects of fighting a reasonably safe seat at the next General Election , but inevitably that led on to Julia 's plans . |
| 10 | As I have heard from his crew , he baled out when he eventually got back to the south coast of England . |
| 11 | He eventually fell out with another pioneering figure in the study of distribution , the Manx naturalist Edward Forbes ( 1815–54 ) , who appropriated Watson 's provinces for his own very different study . |
| 12 | His career had an extraordinary culmination when he eventually turned up in Scotland and was appointed Royal Printer to James VI , afterwards James I of England . |
| 13 | He ended one weekend , which spanned marathons in Holland and Austria , hopelessly lost in Czechoslovakia , where he duly ran out of petrol . |
| 14 | The SPA unanimously elected Kaysone Phomvihane , as the country 's new President , replacing Phoumi Vongvichit , who had served as President in an acting capacity since 1986 when he effectively took over from the ailing Souphanouvong [ see p. 35005 ] . |
| 15 | For just an instant she seemed to see right into his eyes , past the protective barrier that he instinctively put up against intruders . |
| 16 | In fact , he rarely came out of Bath and Wells , where he was proving a conscientious diocesan , predictably of a brisk administrative turn of mind . |
| 17 | He merely looked back at me in a rather peculiar silence . |
| 18 | He merely held on to it , while Bruce pulled him , and with a gurgle of laughter the boy found the apple was in his hand . |
| 19 | Seeing Alice 's commenting face , Muriel said swiftly , " But he only got back at three this morning , and those Channel boats … |
| 20 | She did that for half an hour and he only came round for a short time . |
| 21 | I was just checking here in from the book by and I was looking at the chapter here on Roses Rivetus and er and it was on the mission to Munster here that er Third Combat Mission once a day for three days ' running was to Munster it was this ill-fated mission that made the reputation as the bloody Hundredth and of course this is the one that he only came back from . |
| 22 | Then , after dealing with the Grand Slam Cup and explaining how he only went along with the idea after insisting that the event would also produce $2m for the development of the game in ‘ third world tennis countries , he went on : |
| 23 | Gloria said he only went along with her because of the housing shortages , because he knew he was lucky to have a room at all , even if it was only half a room at Mrs Parvis 's . |
| 24 | From that point on he only went down to the hospitals ‘ as and when required ’ . |
| 25 | Leaning in the kitchen doorway , he watched as she put the kettle on , then asked softly , ‘ When did Ryan tell you he only went out with you for the money ? ’ |
| 26 | And he only found out from one of his operatives who had seen Bernard at Beirut Airport last night . ’ |
| 27 | He only stayed on for me . |
| 28 | He only opened out to her slowly . |
| 29 | He only arrived back in England on Tuesday from his sunny Tenerife training camp . |
| 30 | Then he suddenly went up on his toes and both hands flashed out and clipped me on both cheeks . |