Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got off the mark with an uppish straight drive for four , which might have given a less myopic bowler than Malcolm a return catch , and in Malcolm 's next over , he attempted a square slash which , if he had got an edge , might have prevented him ever setting foot in India again . |
| 2 | ‘ I remember him once putting Superglue in Willie McFaul 's bath ! |
| 3 | Hardly a word out of her , even when the curate , Father Mooney , insisted on making a speech to the company , and him hardly knowing Den at all . |
| 4 | Let him also take action against the Economic League , which prevents that right from being exercised by many people . |
| 5 | In November 1252 , for example , the king told him both to seek timber for the new roof of the abbey and to see that a great new bell was hung before the feast of St Edward : he was not to leave London until it was done . |
| 6 | Philip looked at him now holding Caspar with one hand and throwing bits of stick at the dead magpie to knock it off the branch . |
| 7 | He vigorously defended astrology in a sermon ( later published as Signa Coeli : The Signs of Heaven , 1652 ) preached the day before the notorious ‘ Black Monday ’ , the solar eclipse of 29 March 1652 . |
| 8 | There are longueurs in Act I , but he skilfully deflects attention from them by a deft account of the ballet music and by letting us admire the much improved state of the Royal Opera chorus . |
| 9 | Commissioned as an administrative officer , he eventually became adjutant to the commander of the tactical air force , based at Larisa in central Greece , and made a point of being around whenever any representatives of civil suppliers appeared at headquarters to make presentations . |
| 10 | His meeting with those he eventually took hostage in San José was reported as being part of his negotiation with the Honduran government , mediated by Fishman , over the return of two Hondurans who had " disappeared " eight years previously . |
| 11 | He eventually found solace in religion . |
| 12 | His empire was badly shaken by the October 1987 worldwide stock market crash [ see pp. 37540-41 , and he eventually lost control of the Bell Group to fellow Australian entrepreneur Alan Bond . |
| 13 | Perhaps inevitably , he eventually contracted typhus at Kherson , in the Crimea , in January 1790 and was dead within a few days . |
| 14 | Instead he sarcastically portrays Hall in anything but a true light . |
| 15 | He successfully defended rowing as an Olympic sport and in 1976 introduced women 's events , which have now expanded to six classes . |
| 16 | Having discovered the true position he successfully claimed recovery of all dues paid in respect of exempted limestone . |
| 17 | But the poem of his that he most needed reassurance about was Homage to Sextus Propertius ( 1919 ) , and for that he had to wait a long time . |
| 18 | In presidential elections held on Nov. 8 , 1988 , the Republican Party candidate and then Vice-President , George Bush , defeated his Democratic Party rival Mike Dukakis ; he duly took office as President on Jan. 20 , 1989 . |
| 19 | He effectively wrecked Ludo as a game of skill and honour . |
| 20 | as he wearily trudged door to door . |
| 21 | He mostly spoke English to us younger ones anyway . |
| 22 | He rarely had recourse to it . |
| 23 | It was Sunday , and Yanto had enjoyed the casual breakfast with his Mother , something he rarely had time for during the working week Their chat during breakfast had revealed to him that his Mother had enjoyed the previous Friday evening out with Sid Watkins and would probably see him again . |
| 24 | When de Man subjects the metaphor of the fountain to " Proust 's own injunction " to submit the image to the " test of truth " , he apparently loses sight of the way that his own conception of metaphor as " intratextual complementarity " of inside and outside has led him towards the aporia . |
| 25 | Shortly afterwards he apparently became tutor to a son or sons of Sir Thomas Hoby [ q.v. ] , of Bisham Abbey , Berkshire , whose wife Elizabeth [ q.v. ] commended him to her brother-in-law William Cecil ( later Baron Burghley , q.v. ) , whom Hayes apparently served in unknown capacities for at least twenty years . |
| 26 | He apparently introduced Fagg as his colonel . ’ |
| 27 | Caught in these scenes intimately , he merely put foot after foot forward , automatically , without expression . |
| 28 | He obviously had impregnation on his mind , but by now Lydia had lost her temper and she told him to get stuffed . |
| 29 | While there , he naturally spent time at the dyeworks ; and twice , he had made the longer journey to Kouklia . |
| 30 | He personally took charge of the war against the cult . |