Example sentences of "he [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many may have felt betrayed , but there is little to suggest that MacDonald was any the less of a socialist than others , nor is there hard evidence to suggest that he schemed to bring about the collapse of the Labour government . |
| 2 | Gould would also be reunited with Natty and Jemmy , who he planned to take on the Namoi expedition . |
| 3 | I can even remember when Finnegans Wake was thought to be incomprehensible and the gentleman sitting on my right , George Craig , is almost , but not quite , my contemporary at this university and I was genuinely delighted when he agreed to take on the herculean task of giving a lecture a centenary lecture on James Joyce . |
| 4 | Mr Thomas Russell was asked to board up the back part of he building to keep out the rain . |
| 5 | ‘ Ca n't be done , ’ she said , feeling shamed by the look of despair on his face , and worse still as he fought to bring back the blankness to cover it . |
| 6 | At the time he expected to touch down the aircraft suddenly ‘ pulled down to his left ’ , he felt the back of the aircraft buckle and was aware of debris coming through the canopy . |
| 7 | Bigwig he asked to bring up the rear . |
| 8 | In her motherly concerned way , she was cosseting him as he tried to pick up the pieces of his life . |
| 9 | When his father , frustrated after years as a POW , returned , he tried to lay down the law . |
| 10 | He tried to set up the League of Princes , an international peace-keeping force aimed primarily against the Turks , and the exhibition shows the route of the journeys he made to other countries to promote the idea . |
| 11 | He tried to open out the conversation . |
| 12 | The agent hesitated as he tried to read out the name of the Russian ship from the bill of laden in his hand . |
| 13 | With everyone else gone Tonks had to fend for himself so he tried to find out the truth . |
| 14 | First he scratched away the plaster , then he tried to pull out the bricks . |
| 15 | He tried to straighten out the brim but it had been curled and folded so often it was beyond repair . |
| 16 | He tried to sniff back the wetness that had sprung to his eyes , but a few hot tears managed to spill over and course down his burning cheeks . |
| 17 | He tried to break down the father-role position doctors held , so the patients could feel more relaxed and see him almost as an equal . |
| 18 | He tried to cover up the flutter of surprise by leaning forward and telling the driver it was time to return to New Scotland Yard . |
| 19 | In this post he helped to build up the airship service into a major weapon in the war at sea . |
| 20 | He has to weigh up the possibility of a conviction for something , as opposed to the accused walking free . |
| 21 | But if that is n't bad enough , it is n't scheduled until April 24 — which means he has to sit out the inter-provincials . |
| 22 | The man had his back to her until he stopped to lift up the smaller of the two girls . |
| 23 | Jackson Chatterton stirred as though he proposed to clean up the mess himself , but I waved him down and kept my eyes on Rickie . |
| 24 | He bent to pick up the curl of hair , which he put carefully in his pocket , next to his heart . |
| 25 | He bent to pick up the card he 'd been carrying then scowled at the deserted foyer . |
| 26 | Sir Jimmy Savile says he wants to close down the world-famous Spinal Injuries Unit at Stoke Mandeville Hospital … but only because he 'd like the hospital to run out of patients . |
| 27 | So impressed was the forward-thinking Murray with the two games against Leeds that he wants to speed up the introduction of a British Cup . |
| 28 | He yearned to gulp down the coffee that remained , he craved to ask for more . |
| 29 | Blackburn boss Dalglish faced the nostalgia head-on as he prepared to lead out the opposition against Liverpool for the first time since his astonishing walk-out 20 months ago . |
| 30 | No wonder , then , that when he came to write up the experience in Surprised by Joy he should have been so insistent that his father 's last illness and death ‘ does not really come into the story I am telling ’ . |