Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lived off little kids , ’ the prisoner said contemptuously . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He stabbed out two names with his forefinger . |
| 4 | At eighteen , because they would n't let him read Polo at Yale , he chucked up any thought of an academic career . |
| 5 | Athelstan was an ‘ emperor ’ ( if he was ) because he ruled over several kingdoms ; the kings of León-Castile in the eleventh and twelfth centuries were sometimes called emperors for a slightly different reason , that they had aspirations to rule over other peoples . |
| 6 | He got up six books of Euclid and algebra to simple equations … and … learned all the odes of Horace by heart . ’ |
| 7 | 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 : |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ Forgive me , Marshal , but it seems unlikely he got out this way . |
| 10 | Yes , as soon as he got off this hill . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He did have a job in the Foreign Literature Publishing House , but he sought out any visitors from London , eager for gossip , and frequently talked about returning . |
| 13 | William Lambarde loved Halling and during his time here he built up good relations . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ He found out next day that Molassi had knifed somebody in the confusion . |
| 16 | For the next five years , until his death in 1953 , he ground out anodyne pieces . |
| 17 | Sometimes he helped along this impression of participation by opening his mouth and shovelling his chin forward until someone interrupted him . |
| 18 | He moved out next day . |
| 19 | Apparently impervious to Luke 's quick frown , he drew up another chair . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He had a regular mistress and he drew out that money to pay her off before he married the other one . ’ |
| 22 | He caught up two laps before the end , Tambay 's brakes failed and Niki was home . |
| 23 | He beat up some woman who had to be put into hospital , but Little Liz forgave him . |
| 24 | In the first half he twice denied Cantona with excellent saves and shortly into the second he beat out another effort by the Frenchman . |
| 25 | He beat out ten minutes of pain-filled , throbbing rhythm , sometimes accompanied by low , anguished singing , before Doris came stamping and peg up the stairs and banged on his door and told him to stop it at once . |
| 26 | But he played down new taxes on foreign companies operating in the US , which raised alarm bells in Europe during the election campaign . |
| 27 | He was a familiar face in the City as he cycled round each evening with his pole , lighting the gas lamps in the streets . |
| 28 | Pity he did n't fulfil a promise he made to Darlington Business Venture when he came up last November . |
| 29 | He came round last night with two-fifty . ’ |
| 30 | He came over one morning when mother was out and Terry had gone to work — just like now . ’ |