Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We were a player short and he made up the numbers for us . ’ |
| 2 | By night he lived out the fantasies he had internalised from avidly watching his collection of over 6,000 slasher videos and pornographic manga comic-books . |
| 3 | And Thucydides describes no sharper conflict than that between the aggressive Spartan Sthenelaidas ( i.86 ) and the more cautious King Archidamus ; for the supposedly more ‘ open ’ society of Athens he records only the views of Pericles and an anonymous delegation which does not contradict him . |
| 4 | He whipped back the covers and moved her into bed as if she were a doll , watching her for a second and then turning away . |
| 5 | He choked back the tears and shook as he told of how he 'd been driving along the road when steam started coming out of the bonnet . |
| 6 | His heart hammered as he choked out the words : ‘ Drowning … . |
| 7 | He emptied out the contents of his briefcase one object at a time before moving on to his pockets . |
| 8 | He ladles out the contents of the pot while I am wondering if the laibon thinks it was a handy way to get rid of a rival . |
| 9 | I hope that the hon. and learned Member forgave me when I chortled happily when he read out the names of about four members of the Scottish Conservative party who are in favour of this assembly . |
| 10 | Merckx was known as ‘ the cannibal ’ , so often did he scoop up the prizes , even in minor events when he might have been expected to allow minor or local riders to have their day . |
| 11 | But this may be the grandest folly yet : a totally unsympathetic character ( a man as hard to empathize with as Mick Hucknall , whose ‘ Money Too Tight to Mention ’ graces the second commercial ) in unbelievable situations , doing ridiculous things with no discernible connection to beer at all ( unless , of course , he 's drunk when he tears up the plans , gets fired , breaks back into the offices and holds the board at gunpoint while he sells their cars ) . |
| 12 | In Monet 's The Gare Saint-Lazare pigment and cross-section analyses have shown how he built up the layers and how he achieved the dark tones using the bright colours of the impressionist palette ; no black was used . |
| 13 | Taking the roll of plaster from Sophie , Robert placed it in the water , then , pulling the broken limb out straight , he lined up the bones and set the arm . |
| 14 | He says he found out the calves ' tongues were grey and pink . |
| 15 | Like a detective displaying the only clues in a case in which he has become personally involved , he holds out the croci with a shrug of quiet resolve . |
| 16 | And as he tells the story of one Irish politician who was emblematic of the past — Fianna Fáil TD Sean Doherty — he strips away the layers of fiction and delusion underpinning both Doherty and his critics to touch the pulse of an Ireland distorted by the rhetoric of the newsroom and debating chamber . |
| 17 | ‘ She looked too small to be the Queen , ’ said Mr Fagan , so he drew back the curtains to get a better look . |
| 18 | He released her hands , and pinned her instead with one hard leg as he drew down the straps of her swimsuit , uncovering her full high breasts to his view . |
| 19 | He caught up the skirts of his robe and scurried after them . |
| 20 | The county 's chief constable , who heads a national committee on crime , says he has n't the resources to cope . |
| 21 | He cast aside the shackles of statesmanship imposed by his minders throughout the campaign to denounce the arrogance of the Press and political establishment who had condemned him as cocky and inadequate to be prime minister . |
| 22 | Then they are inside , waiting while he scrapes home the bolts . |
| 23 | When he scrapes back the bolts I wince . |
| 24 | By so differentiating he described both the characteristics of his villagers and the typical gestures which enabled them to tell their tale ( see page 59 ) . |
| 25 | He shouted out the lyrics in a coarse powerful voice , and the musicians smiled and redoubled their efforts to keep pace with him . |
| 26 | He lifted back the drapes and looked out into the road . |
| 27 | She would send him off to some lecturing engagement with butter and other rations to give his hostess , and when he came back the rations would be found as a soggy mess in his pocket . |
| 28 | He fills up the streams and the paths , like veins |
| 29 | He fills up the rivers he fills up the roads , like tentacles |
| 30 | When he fills up the gaps within the five hundred and twelve row blocks he gets . |