Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My ole man got upset an' 'e told me ter get rid o' the bloody fing before 'e got 'ome from work ternight. 'E works on the trams , yer see , ’ the woman explained . |
| 2 | Surely it 's better than the way 'e 's bin since 'e got back from France ? |
| 3 | The tide was close in by now , and his footprints behind him filled up with water , gleaming . |
| 4 | The inner contemplation of the matters which troubled him merged suddenly with awareness that the sword was an unbearable weight at the end of his extended arms . |
| 5 | And as Gabriel walked away , the Mason was heard to say loudly , ‘ I hope you keep him tied up at night . |
| 6 | Well he does n't bother to mention that the king also had an official welcome at Carfax , which was the normal place , what was known as the Penniless Bench , which was at the end of St Martin 's Church , only the of that remains at the moment , now , erm and then was presented with the traditional gift of gloves by the mayor , and the not very generous sum of £520 , and just about the same time , Alderman Nixon and 12 others who agreed with him disappeared smartly from Oxford , and were n't to be seen for the rest of the war . |
| 7 | He growled and gibbered at them like a witch-hare and those nearest to him fell back in fear . |
| 8 | Gina had wanted him sent away to school . |
| 9 | She went to England in her teens ( 1917 ) to work under the dark genius of Sickert , and from him went on to France , where first , and briefly , she learnt from Andere Lhote , and then commenced a lifetime study with and under Albert Gleizes . |
| 10 | He was not tall , close to minimum height in fact , but he was stocky , and he made up for lack of inches with a pressing , high-speed manner which sometimes made people think he was all noise and movement and no intelligence . |
| 11 | He lived over in Westmorland and was in the milk business , and then he met and married a Baldersdale girl , Anne Coldfield from Dill House , and they came to live here . |
| 12 | He lived frugally in Florence , and died there on or about 14 April 1916 , leaving his house to the municipality . |
| 13 | She said she thought he lived somewhere near Godalming but she was n't sure . |
| 14 | I know that he 's dead , that he lived somewhere in West Cornwall , that his pictures are making high prices and that I wish we could afford one . |
| 15 | While the masses and nomenklatura flocked in their hundreds of thousands to Glazunov 's exhibitions and he lived lavishly in Moscow , he ably kept going a parallel reputation for dissidence : ‘ [ He ] has been a lifetime opponent of Soviet authority , and his art has always defied the politics and prejudices of his time ’ . |
| 16 | He lived entirely by impulse . |
| 17 | But other reports say he lived happily in retirement on a generous KGB pension . |
| 18 | ‘ Quite a looker , ’ he whispered back to Petion . |
| 19 | Chapman 's absolute authority over the team and his concern for their performance on the field was highlighted by the firm rule he laid down for match days . |
| 20 | He succeeded amply in Labour 's main objective of defeating the Alliance as the main alternative to the Conservatives . |
| 21 | Soon after , he checked out in Vegas , the suspicion of murder hovering over the coroner 's report . |
| 22 | He beamed broadly at Finnan 's grinning face , showing pink , empty gums . |
| 23 | He beamed amiably at Fribble , who at once said , ‘ Quite right . |
| 24 | When begged to return , he relented only on condition he could carry out a remarkable experiment : the so-called oprichnina , Ivan designated something like one-third of the country , carved out of scattered towns and provinces , as his personal domain , and set up a new administration to subject it to his personal will . |
| 25 | Over her shoulder he gleamed triumphantly at Sir Thomas . |
| 26 | Marigold would have preferred Highgate , he knew , but in spite of the therapy and the control he shied away from Highgate . |
| 27 | He limped over to Grimma , catching hold of a thorn twig to steady himself . |
| 28 | Before he limped off during Saturday 's game , the league 's highest paid player had scored just one goal in six matches . |
| 29 | Bunny was so choked at what he termed veiled inferences and an unfair proportioning of blame that he stalked out of Rose 's office . |
| 30 | He passed on into Kent and on the return leg of the journey liberated the fugitive Hubert de Burgh [ q.v. ] from sanctuary in Devizes church , meeting boats at Aust on the Bristol channel which ferried his party back safely to Chepstow . |