Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv prt] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he lived about half way and , and er , one or two more he lived at the top house on the right and somebody over the other side . |
| 2 | At eighteen , because they would n't let him read Polo at Yale , he chucked up any thought of an academic career . |
| 3 | I ONCE read a book by Bertrand Russell in which he said that at the age of seven years ( as I remember ) he got up one night to see whether there were , in fact , four angels round his bed : |
| 4 | Well he got up that railway track , I mean , bloody hell , they might 've thought well that 's one way he 's gon na go . |
| 5 | ‘ Forgive me , Marshal , but it seems unlikely he got out this way . |
| 6 | Yes , as soon as he got off this hill . |
| 7 | And so whilst Ruth and Naomi are resting and waiting back home Boaz is acting , and he sought out this man , he 's determined now to see that Ruth and Naomi receive all that is there 's by right . |
| 8 | He built up popular support for a war which , in its opening phase , had given rise to a political crisis similar to those that had broken over his father and grandfather . |
| 9 | ‘ He found out next day that Molassi had knifed somebody in the confusion . |
| 10 | Sometimes he helped along this impression of participation by opening his mouth and shovelling his chin forward until someone interrupted him . |
| 11 | He moved out next day . |
| 12 | Apparently impervious to Luke 's quick frown , he drew up another chair . |
| 13 | He drew off some fluid and relieved the pressure , then went back to the office , where he shook his head gloomily as he pored over the report that had come back with her from Seapark . |
| 14 | He had a regular mistress and he drew out that money to pay her off before he married the other one . ’ |
| 15 | He beat up some woman who had to be put into hospital , but Little Liz forgave him . |
| 16 | In the first half he twice denied Cantona with excellent saves and shortly into the second he beat out another effort by the Frenchman . |
| 17 | He was a familiar face in the City as he cycled round each evening with his pole , lighting the gas lamps in the streets . |
| 18 | He came round last night with two-fifty . ’ |
| 19 | He came over one morning when mother was out and Terry had gone to work — just like now . ’ |
| 20 | No I was sorry I missed him when he came over last year . |
| 21 | he 's either up the stairs well he came down one night right enough he was talking to his girl on the phone , she phones him through the week and er he was a bit depressed because he he had n't the money , he 's , he 's on the and he has n't really the money to give in for housekeeping plus try and get driving lessons and his daddy wo n't let him |
| 22 | ‘ He came back this morning but his journey was long . |
| 23 | And of course , when I was down there Sunday , I turned round there and I said er , and he came in last night , again , he said you do n't wan na sell it ? |
| 24 | Now we need somebody , a ball winner in mid-field , he came in last night and he did the job . |
| 25 | God knows why he woke up that night . |
| 26 | Deciding he did n't want to be the ‘ oldest swinger in town ’ he woke up one morning in 1987 with another hangover and decided he 'd had enough . |
| 27 | As Eva had known , the location of the flat would always be a draw for Charlie , and when he turned up one evening to eat and sleep I said , ‘ Let's go to the Nashville . ’ |
| 28 | I knew that I had n't been kidding myself when he turned up one evening looking exhausted , miserable and defeated , to tell me his wife had threatened to start divorce proceedings . |
| 29 | Dexter 's notebook rustled as he turned over another page . |
| 30 | Other than that he showed up Giggs for the puke faced brat that he is ( all 10,000,000 and Papin worth of him — Ferguson will rue the day he turned down that offer ) . |