Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he came back from Livorno in the late summer of 1913 he made straight for the Café Rotonde , to be greeted rapturously by artists and models on the terrace . |
| 2 | He made straight for the big warhorse , mounted , said something to Will , and started along the street . |
| 3 | Well , you could have put that scene he made on at a theatre in the West End and charged for tickets , I reckon . |
| 4 | Oh he used to wash them and he had a proper , he had a case what he made up with a rack so as he could drop them all in . |
| 5 | Yesterday , he said he ‘ forgot ’ about the trip which he made shortly after the break-up of his second marriage to Dr Who actress Janet Fielding . |
| 6 | My mother was so dazzled she never even thought to question him about his job , but she grew to live for the visits he made daily to the shop . |
| 7 | They did not keep him long , however , and this time he made off with a companion and even had the nerve to work for three months on a French farm before starting a marathon trek across the entire length of France . |
| 8 | He made off with an undisclosed amount of cash . |
| 9 | A gunman fired more than 20 shots into the building , but as he made off in a stolen car , a soldier fired a single shot from an Army observation post on the top of a block of flats several hundred yards away . |
| 10 | He made off in a W-registered Ford Cortina estate , stolen in Middlesbrough on May 11 . |
| 11 | She always observed every move he made out of the corner of one eye , though , and if he stirred in any way , even just to stretch or yawn , she would immediately react and flex herself to take defensive action . |
| 12 | Since he made swiftly towards the forest , I had not much option but to follow . |
| 13 | His instincts , honed over the years as he lived continuously on the threshold of danger , warned him that things were about to change . |
| 14 | Noguchi tried in vain to construct an earthwork sculpture at a Japanese-American internment camp where he lived voluntarily for a time during World War II . |
| 15 | He lived right on the main road he was very vulnerable ! |
| 16 | In this way he even controverts the view that he lived up to the feared role of private sector financial disciplinarian when he brought qualified accountants for the first time into the head office . |
| 17 | He lived out in the country for a number of years , lived in poverty , erm , he thought about and he wrote about suicide . |
| 18 | He lived only in the present , caring nothing for the past or the future . |
| 19 | Had he fallen out of an aircraft on its way from New York to Tripoli ? |
| 20 | Leeds have agreed to pay Wigan £5,000 for every five first-team games he plays up to a maximum of £25,000 . |
| 21 | ‘ He plays more on the left hand side which is not my favourite position , I prefer to play on the right . |
| 22 | He does , he likes to get in the bedroom and , and he fiddles on with the erm |
| 23 | I visited him and he dosed up like a clam . |
| 24 | Yanto 's mind was busy as he meandered slowly through the leafy lanes towards Purton . |
| 25 | If Mountbatten failed in one item on his agenda , however , he succeeded triumphantly in the other . |
| 26 | Furthermore , when he checked back on the correlation between his simple lix values and the criterion of pooled estimates of difficulty , he found that the figure was 0.92 , which was exactly the same as that obtained from the multiple regression . |
| 27 | Collecting her ticket , she came up behind him again as he checked in for the flight . |
| 28 | Once at Frankfurt 's Rhine-Main airport he had collected the keys of a Golf Corbio from the Hertz desk and driven the twenty-four miles on the A66 to Mainz where he checked in at the Europa Hotel on Kaiserstrasse . |
| 29 | He stabbed angrily at the button . |
| 30 | He plunged down for an interminable second , arms and legs splayed out in abandon , forgotten , tumbling anyhow , and crashed onto the stage on his back , lying across Bothwell , whose cloak was the colour of blood . |