Example sentences of "he [verb] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The sounds he made fell into the embrace of a dead echo , and he felt that he might be the last man on earth . |
| 2 | As he made to sneak up the corridor to the stairs , the sounds of heated debate reached his ears , issuing from the front parlour . |
| 3 | He hates sitting on the beach ; does nothing but moan . ’ |
| 4 | Does he want to move from the city to a farm in Scotland ? |
| 5 | He had himself frequently led patrols along the narrow roads and boreens that ran like veins through the countryside about Cork , and before that he had spent more time than he cared to remember in the muddy trenches and dug-outs of France with shells screaming overhead . |
| 6 | His ‘ guys ’ in Lebanon , the Asmar network , were not to be risked on routine intelligence for the DEA , and Coleman had no other contacts there that he cared to expose to the Syrian-backed heroin cartel in the Bekaa Valley . |
| 7 | Mr Goldberg said they could bring a libel action , but he planned to wait until the appeal verdict . |
| 8 | Henry was going to add a chapter towards the end of The Complete History of Wimbledon in which he planned to deal with the failure of nerve he sensed in the place . |
| 9 | Kyffin Williams never intended to be a painter , he planned to go into the army but was rejected on medical grounds . |
| 10 | With this in mind , he planned to return to the project and , in 1978 , funded by the National Endowment for Humanities , the documentation entered its final phase . |
| 11 | ‘ You 've got to be kidding ! ’ yelped Margaret Lenham , as much astonished as afraid at the sight of what he planned to use for the operation : a knitting needle . |
| 12 | Next month he planned to retire from the army , but says he could n't resist this call to duty . |
| 13 | He plans to accompany Mr Major to his count in Huntingdon and will forgo the election night dinner he planned to host at the Mirabelle . |
| 14 | The committee decided not to summon him , according to Chaplin , when they heard he planned to appear in the costume , boots and battered bowler of the Chaplin tramp . |
| 15 | He agreed to write to the Peruvian Government . |
| 16 | Although he insisted that he had done nothing remiss — he admitted receiving a 5,000,000 yen loan from an associate of the firm in 1989 but claimed to have repaid the money — he agreed to resign from the party ( but not from the Upper House ) for having caused embarrassment to the SDPJ . |
| 17 | ‘ Tonight he goes swimming with the PT teacher in charge . |
| 18 | If he goes hunting through the texts for a quick recipe for gold or earthly power he 'll soon get lost , give up . |
| 19 | The badges of honour he sports on his veteran 's beret when he goes dining for the old soldiers ' vote gave his plea a sort of authority . |
| 20 | For example , Peter Matthiessen 's account of his astonishing journey on foot , with limited supplies in the face of overwhelming winter snows , from Nepal to the Crystal Mountain in Tibet where he goes fired with the hope of seeing the rare , almost mythical , snow leopard , expresses a pattern of experience that is at the heart of the awareness of the medieval mystics with whom this book is concerned . |
| 21 | After that it will be decided whether or not he goes chasing in the New Year . |
| 22 | And he goes you do n't have to tell me and he goes get off the fucking train . |
| 23 | this company moves at such a rapid rate of knots that I have a meeting tomorrow morning with the Managing Director Building and Property Development at his house in Pitlochrie which is the only time he 's literally coming back to change his shirt before he goes wandering round the world again so the only way I can get him is to go up and stay with the in-laws over night and see him at breakfast time tomorrow . |
| 24 | ‘ AWOPBOPALOOBOPAWOMBAMBOOM ! ’ declares the bloke with the panstick and mascara , as he goes frugging around the piano , flashes his gorgeous doll-eyes and makes some astonishing claims about a girl named Daisy . |
| 25 | Fucking , fire 's this gun at him point blank and he goes and he stands there like this , and he , he stood there and he goes running round the corner sort of thing and then he goes he ca n't of missed from that fucking distance you know , and its that distance and er , in the , in the car , the mate goes , the mate sort of till he passed out , and he goes bring it to me , he goes , and its still alive , he goes , but matey in the front goes oh my he goes , I knew you 'd fuck up he goes and so they 're all blanks you |
| 26 | In fact , de Valera and the civil servants he appointed to assist in the work , consulted Irish theologians on matters of society and church — state relations ( Longford and O'Neill 1970 : 295–6 ; Whyte 1980 : 379 ; Keogh 1987 ; Faughnan 1988 ) . |
| 27 | When Paul Sayer won a literary prize for a grimly realistic first novel , The Comforts of Madness ( 1988 ) , in which an insane narrator never speaks , he confessed that it was an imitation of Beckett 's Malone Dies ( 1956 ) : ‘ I could see how he avoided telling about the main thing : that 's something I tried to do in my book , ’ though it does not read like Beckett . |
| 28 | He avoided going to the prize-giving so that he would n't have to meet her . |
| 29 | But he avoided sitting on the sofa next to her although she 'd left space . |
| 30 | He instantly spotted the ‘ yorker ’ delivered by the man from BBC Wales — in effect , that the England match could not have been one he expected to win at the start of the season , therefore the Scottish match must have been on the credit side of the ledger . |