Example sentences of "he [vb infin] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But something made him glance up at the lounge window as he approached . |
| 2 | Charlotte saw him glance out through the window and clench his teeth before turning back to face Ursula . |
| 3 | She reached up , and kissing him fiercely on the lips , whispered a rhyme she had made up years before : " Tristram Pascoe , Tristram Pascoe , never , never let your lass go ! " — and when they had hugged , she watched him climb nimbly over the wall and heard him jump down into the hayfield on the other side . |
| 4 | Something in her voice made him ease back on the throttle , decide not to pass the Renault Turbo lorry he 'd been stalking . |
| 5 | Second hurdle , managed it a bit better , gave him the signal three strides from the jump , felt him lift off at the right time , felt his assurance flow back and his faith in me revive , even if provisionally . |
| 6 | On instructions from the Corporals , we stripped him naked and made him run across to the horse trough where he was thrown in . |
| 7 | Chen , watching Karr , saw a small movement in the big man 's face ; saw him look up at the woman appreciatively . |
| 8 | We saw him look out of the window once or twice . ’ |
| 9 | No , it was not Jenny who made him look askance at the legacy . |
| 10 | After a short while she saw him emerge on to the quayside , a tall , lean man with the kind of rangy , loose-limbed walk which drew admiring glances from any female within range . |
| 11 | Something in her face , in her eyes , in the clenched line of her jaw , had made him hurry out of the tent after her . |
| 12 | We see him move slowly through the ranks , from fencing stolen goods to torching ailing business interests . |
| 13 | We see him move slowly through the ranks , from fencing stolen goods to torching ailing business interests . |
| 14 | It had lain there all day , still unread , for he knew that just to look at it , just to scan its heavy headlines announcing further death and destruction would only make him sink deeper into the bog of doubt . |
| 15 | The handshake was a stupid idea as she was still holding Darren , but she let him slide down to the floor and we shook . |
| 16 | He pulled the window up quickly and it was too dark for her to see him step back towards the house . |
| 17 | Pushing aside the leaves , she saw him stop halfway across the lawn and bend his head to light a cigarette . |
| 18 | Michael let him drop on to the filthy floor . |
| 19 | She heard him drop quietly on the other side , and draw the bolt . |
| 20 | Raging at Felipe had just been because she 'd been shocked and scared for him when she 'd seen him take off into the air . |
| 21 | Hugh 's last scruples about seeing him cut out of the will were satisfied by writing him a personal letter of appeal . |
| 22 | Happily , Robben Ford 's ‘ 88 release for Warner Bros Talk To Your Daughter saw him cross successfully into the limelight . |
| 23 | Then I heard him call down from the attic for me to open the stairs door wide . |
| 24 | The effort made him flop forward on the table . |
| 25 | Tallis heard him walk away from the lodge . |
| 26 | He is much better now and I have just seen him walk out of the office unaided . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ He should have knocked the guy cold and not let him go on to the fourth round . |
| 28 | When we sat down for our sandwiches , I made him go away with the grisly thing , but we could still hear him crunching away behind a rock — first a crunch then a cough as he swallowed a feather , then another crunch then more coughs until he realised there was no future in it and came round for a sandwich . |
| 29 | I saw him go up to the house- ’ |
| 30 | You say you saw him go up to the house and take something ? |