Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not tall , close to minimum height in fact , but he was stocky , and he made up for lack of inches with a pressing , high-speed manner which sometimes made people think he was all noise and movement and no intelligence . |
| 2 | He lived over in Westmorland and was in the milk business , and then he met and married a Baldersdale girl , Anne Coldfield from Dill House , and they came to live here . |
| 3 | He lived frugally in Florence , and died there on or about 14 April 1916 , leaving his house to the municipality . |
| 4 | She said she thought he lived somewhere near Godalming but she was n't sure . |
| 5 | I know that he 's dead , that he lived somewhere in West Cornwall , that his pictures are making high prices and that I wish we could afford one . |
| 6 | While the masses and nomenklatura flocked in their hundreds of thousands to Glazunov 's exhibitions and he lived lavishly in Moscow , he ably kept going a parallel reputation for dissidence : ‘ [ He ] has been a lifetime opponent of Soviet authority , and his art has always defied the politics and prejudices of his time ’ . |
| 7 | He lived entirely by impulse . |
| 8 | But other reports say he lived happily in retirement on a generous KGB pension . |
| 9 | He even , when accompanying , transposes a prima vista ; and everywhere Italian or French works are put before him , which he plays off at sight . |
| 10 | He plays entirely by ear . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Quite a looker , ’ he whispered back to Petion . |
| 12 | Chapman 's absolute authority over the team and his concern for their performance on the field was highlighted by the firm rule he laid down for match days . |
| 13 | He succeeded amply in Labour 's main objective of defeating the Alliance as the main alternative to the Conservatives . |
| 14 | Soon after , he checked out in Vegas , the suspicion of murder hovering over the coroner 's report . |
| 15 | He beamed broadly at Finnan 's grinning face , showing pink , empty gums . |
| 16 | He beamed amiably at Fribble , who at once said , ‘ Quite right . |
| 17 | When begged to return , he relented only on condition he could carry out a remarkable experiment : the so-called oprichnina , Ivan designated something like one-third of the country , carved out of scattered towns and provinces , as his personal domain , and set up a new administration to subject it to his personal will . |
| 18 | Over her shoulder he gleamed triumphantly at Sir Thomas . |
| 19 | Marigold would have preferred Highgate , he knew , but in spite of the therapy and the control he shied away from Highgate . |
| 20 | He limped over to Grimma , catching hold of a thorn twig to steady himself . |
| 21 | Before he limped off during Saturday 's game , the league 's highest paid player had scored just one goal in six matches . |
| 22 | ( He turns upstage in time to take over the conversation with CLAUDIUS , GERTRUDE and ROS head downstage . ) |
| 23 | If he turns up for court and he says , yes I had a terrible time at the police station and there were all sorts of breaches of but I am now here on a , I 'm gon na tell the truth , that 's no problem . |
| 24 | On the one hand he turns almost to abstraction , ‘ a vast menace of despair ’ , as also to an image of the un-existence of evil , a ‘ huge shadow ’ which Gandalf tries to send back to ‘ nothingness ’ . |
| 25 | He turns back to Howard . |
| 26 | He turns out for Alderton in the Cheltenham and Gloucester Sunday league . |
| 27 | He turns out for Alderton in the Cheltenham and Gloucester Sunday league . |
| 28 | Or might he think more about Thomas 's colouring and return for a second , closer look ? |
| 29 | JTR and I parted company at Rothesay ; he to go on to Arran on the Iona and me to zigzag over there via Wemyss Bay and Ardrossan ferries . |
| 30 | Bunny was so choked at what he termed veiled inferences and an unfair proportioning of blame that he stalked out of Rose 's office . |