Example sentences of "he [vb past] [noun] [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On shower day he made Frank strip off all his clothes before going to the bathroom . |
| 2 | He made Hodkinson step back in the second with a fierce right to the body . |
| 3 | He made birdie to open up a four-shot lead I looked at him and winked . |
| 4 | I recall one man in the dale saying that he passed Sleetburn going up the fell to shepherd at 10 a.m. one day and heard Sam and Mother playing . |
| 5 | Twenty-five years earlier , in England , Dr. David Buxton , the Principal of the Liverpool School for the Deaf and Dumb , had published a pamphlet On the Marriage and Intermarriage of the Deaf and Dumb in 1857 , in which he produced statistics to back up his belief that while it should not be forbidden for deaf people to marry , it was highly objectionable that they should intermarry . |
| 6 | It 's very useful , because then it 's very easy when you write , ‘ He went up past the cinema and on to the church , and then he met so-and-so coming out of her house . ’ |
| 7 | He says he asked youths to clear up their litter and was abused . |
| 8 | And he asked Jane to go down to sort her out but Jane 's scared of a fight . |
| 9 | So , as he concluded he asked Hannah to stand up and just say ‘ hello ’ — that 's all . |
| 10 | He asked Ranulf to hold up a candle and carefully examined the inscription on the faded , leather collar : ‘ Noli me tangere ’ . |
| 11 | He asked Esther to stand up , but she could not , so he and Esther 's father carried her onto the settee where she could rest . |
| 12 | When Wendy 's father died of lung cancer , he asked Rhoda to move in and presently got it together to marry her , thus putting a stop to Wendy 's sudden plan to abandon Dev and move back in with Ken . |
| 13 | Early in his time as prime minister he asked Ramsey to come down from York so that they could meet . |
| 14 | He got dealers to track down an enthusiast in Essex who had got in ahead of him , and made the supergenerous offer for the supercar . |
| 15 | He invited Patrick to sit down in the hall and took him in detail through events from the moment the car had stopped in front of the house . |
| 16 | With a gallant wave of one hand he invited Melissa to sit down and with the other placed a small pile of well-thumbed paperbacks on a table in front of her . |
| 17 | There he found Anabelle curled up sound asleep . |
| 18 | When a senior executive arrived at the studio a day or two later he found parcels piling up in the reception area . |
| 19 | When Morton came in , a few minutes later , he found Bragg staring out of the window , his dead pipe clenched between his teeth . |
| 20 | Even when a cabinet minister he found time to write round for subscriptions for the Birmingham Unionists and to attend their routine meetings . |
| 21 | He helped Harry take off his anorak and tugged at the boy 's pullover , but Harry resisted and Deuce backed off . |
| 22 | He told a man who would be called as a witness he helped others to hold down the victim while his mate killed him . |
| 23 | He let Billy get on with his life . ’ |
| 24 | He let Coffin go up and drag him out . |
| 25 | John Aiken , who wrote in 1797 , was also a doctor and he described apprentices brought in batches from distant workhouses to toil in " injurious " air by day and night . |
| 26 | He told Carl to sit down , then he opened Harald 's passport and looked inside . |
| 27 | He told Newman to hold on and the Englishman heard him call out in German . |
| 28 | Layton , of Regent 's Park , London , believed he was acting in a ‘ perfectly legal and ethical way ’ when he hired KAS to find out more about Europarks . |
| 29 | Every time he went abroad with the company he came back loaded up with western goods . |
| 30 | He imagined Francis coming out , and the dog scampering ahead through the mist . |