Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He goes right thought for ages and he thought right what do I really need ? |
| 2 | He goes there talking about paper sovereignty , when the country 's real sovereignty is increasingly dependent on the actions of our European Community partners . |
| 3 | If the patient has poor balance , he sits well supported on the plinth , with his feet flat on the floor . |
| 4 | He sits there looking like John Knox being unimpressed by Mary Stuart , and just as I think he 'll never let me increase my overdraft he says , ‘ Aye , life 's not easy for a woman alone with no head for business . |
| 5 | He sits there sucking on a dead cheroot , staring at the board like he 's forgotten a phone number . |
| 6 | so he sits there erm , and you know you involve in our conversation , but he sits there talking to her and then he sort of feels out of it and then he storms off |
| 7 | well he sits there talking at dinner times well then when she goes |
| 8 | He became increasingly attached to an almost Greek sense of the hero , but recast in a mould similar to Nietzsche 's superman . |
| 9 | He became increasingly frustrated by his inability to preserve food , especially dairy products , during hot summer months . |
| 10 | Medina trained as a merchant in Amsterdam , moved to London in 1670 , and from 1672 until 1677 lived in Great St Helens , where he became well established as a merchant . |
| 11 | He taught initially at a junior school in Berkshire , then at a grammar school , and later at Downe House , where he became well known on the art-teaching circuit when his pupils won ( for two consecutive years ) a national art competition and their work toured internationally . |
| 12 | He became well known as a music festival adjudicator , working in Canada every alternate year between 1924 and 1938 , and he took the Glasgow Orpheus Choir on tours to Canada , the USA , and half a dozen European countries . |
| 13 | He became highly acclaimed amongst the Irish-American community for his so-called ‘ Morrison visas ’ . |
| 14 | I believe he became dangerously fascinated by the idea of having one sex merge into the other . ’ |
| 15 | As she became more sexually active — to him , frighteningly so — he became seriously disturbed about whether he could keep up with her . |
| 16 | Entering New College as an undergraduate in October 1880 , he became deeply stirred by the social and imperialist ideas current in Oxford at the time . |
| 17 | June and Robert Braithwaite achieved much better intercourse both in and out of bed when she learned to understand and value his greater need of physical sensation and he became less worried by her being different and placing a lower value on physical experience . |
| 18 | Did they follow him on his pub-crawl , clinically waiting until he became suitably juiced before switching on the camera ? |
| 19 | Thereafter he became better known as a forensic scientist achieving such professional distinctions as presidency of the Medico-Legal Society and of the Forensic Science Society ( of which Grant was a founder member and secretary ) . |
| 20 | Later that night he became so engrossed in his studies he completely forgot about it . |
| 21 | He became so identified with us that he was the perfect penitent and made the perfect confession to the Father for us . |
| 22 | Although his initial interest had been aroused because of the connection between current problems and events which may have taken place in a former life , he became so enthralled by the topic that he took it up for its own sake . |
| 23 | Further anecdotes on the fame of Champagne wines in the fourteenth century are told by Max Sutaine in his Essai sur l'histoire des vins de la Champagne ( 1845 ) ; in particular he relates how , when the German king Wenceslas arrived in Reims in 1397 to discuss with Charles VI the division within the church over the popes of Avignon ( a subject Henry Vizetelly describes in A History of Champagne ( 1882 ) as ‘ very fit for a drunkard and a madman to put their heads together about ’ ) he became so intoxicated on the local wines that he signed all the documents before him , departing without knowing what he had signed . |
| 24 | In attempting to return to Afghanistan in 1840 , he became accidentally embroiled in the Baluchistan revolt and was imprisoned by the British authorities without either charge or good reason ( described in Narrative of a Journey to Kalat , 1842 ) . |
| 25 | no need for painkillers he was that surprised , he was that surprised the way , of the way he did it , he got brutally treated with |
| 26 | One hour later I had recovered consciousness , was lying drugged and bloodless in my bed , and my father had gone out with the shotgun he owned then to look for Old Saul . |
| 27 | I ca n't get over him , he looks just looks like . |
| 28 | ‘ A Mr Phillips , a Mr Cuthbertson , a Mr — ’ he tried desperately to think of a name ‘ — Taylerson . |
| 29 | Again he tried unsuccessfully to struggle to his feet , but failed . |
| 30 | After the South African War , he tried unsuccessfully to stand for the South African parliament before returning home to marry Lady Mary Douglas Hamilton . |