Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was a vast murmur of duck-talk on the lake as he made out group after group , some in the water and some on the banks , busy and preoccupied with feeding . |
| 2 | He passed out top in the Foreign Office entrance exam after Oxford and began work in Whitehall on the European Political Co-operation desk , ironically named given that at that time General de Gaulle was thwarting Britain 's European ambitions . |
| 3 | Naively he regarded it as ‘ no big deal ’ and at times he became quite testy at the attention it commanded . |
| 4 | Later John Smith made Messrs Lamont and Major visibly squirm and reduced the Tory back-benchers to silence when he read out quote after quote from the Conservatives pledging not to extend VAT . |
| 5 | He devoted much thought to the shape of the future church . |
| 6 | As was so often the case , he sucked up nourishment from books he happened to be reading , finding parallels in the lives of characters to his own dilemmas and solutions . |
| 7 | He rose up light in the stirrups , He scarce could reach her hand , but she loosened her casement , his face burnt like a brand . |
| 8 | I suppose if he jibbed at five hundred he 'd hardly part with four thousand , not at a rate of interest we could afford . |
| 9 | He came out top in the mechanical engineering section of the competition , run by CAD User magazine . |
| 10 | Were the paleness and emotion on his face as he arrived not fury at Pipkin 's performance but symptoms of poison ? |
| 11 | Normally he handed over responsibility for the routine maintenance of their relationship to Ellen , but she was letting him down , so he was going to try the only technique he knew : drop some explosive overboard and see what floated to the surface . |
| 12 | His back window was starred where the bullet had entered so he knocked out part of the pane to give clear vision as he feared the car might be followed by other gunmen . |
| 13 | ENGLAND international Ian Archbold was in scintillating form yesterday as he clipped nearly minute off the course record in winning the Red House six mile road race at Sunderland . |
| 14 | He pulled off part of the officer 's jumper and pulled it tightly across the back of his neck . |
| 15 | With his fingers he broke away mud from the river bank and wet it in the river . |
| 16 | The Bf110 , he thought , as he flew sedately north towards Denmark , was not half the plane the 109 was . |
| 17 | They begged him to let them off this time , but he rang back hour after hour , day , after day : " Sell your car . |
| 18 | Tiller 's theatrical enterprises were expanding so fast it became inconvenient to use his warehouse during the evenings and at weekends , so he took over part of St James 's Hall in Oxford Street , Manchester , adjoining the St James 's Theatre . |
| 19 | He took up rowing in a wherry , and finally worked up to a single shell . |
| 20 | Panofsky , who was Professor of art history at Hamburg University from 1926 to 1931 , was one of the many German intellectuals that were lost to Germany when he took up residence at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study in 1935 , having been forced to leave in 1933 . |
| 21 | From Norfolk Louis-Napoleon travelled to Philadelphia and then New York , where he took up residence in the Washington Hotel , Broadway . |
| 22 | Interned when the government declared martial law in December 1981 , but released 11 months later , he took up employment at the shipyard in the spring of 1983 and in October of that year was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize . |
| 23 | The plaintiff , B , entered into an agreement with Mirror Group Newspapers on 3 June 1988 that if he took up employment with Pergamon Media Trust , he would receive from MGN a sum of money in certain circumstances . |
| 24 | And one of the main reasons why Home Secretary Kenneth Clarke chose Milton Keynes as the first police station to visit since he took up post in April . |
| 25 | A year after he took up office at the College , Moynihan began a group portrait of the staff of the Painting School . |
| 26 | Mahmud may have bought time for himself , but he stored up trouble for his successors . |
| 27 | And last week when he brought in , he brought in pâté for his toast like . |
| 28 | On being asked by Ecosse Films to front ‘ Harry Enfield 's Guide to Opera ’ ( starting on Channel 4 on 4th March ) , he brought in co-writer from ‘ Harry Enfield 's Television Programme ’ Paul Whitehouse , with whom he has created new characters including ‘ The Opera Ponces ’ . |
| 29 | The singer Elton John has taken a national newspaper to court over an article last December which claimed he was hooked on a bizarre diet which meant he spat out food without swallowing . |
| 30 | He went down country with the Army , and there 's a big difference between there and up here — it 's not a place where economy is considered in the same way , so maybe he learned some bad habits , such as a tendency to alcoholic drink . |