Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He lived off little kids , ’ the prisoner said contemptuously . |
| 2 | Then he lived about half way and , and er , one or two more he lived at the top house on the right and somebody over the other side . |
| 3 | He stabbed out two names with his forefinger . |
| 4 | At eighteen , because they would n't let him read Polo at Yale , he chucked up any thought of an academic career . |
| 5 | But at night when he sleeps , he drifts back 20 miles . |
| 6 | When he turns up next week his trousers 'll be about three inches above his shoes . |
| 7 | Athelstan was an ‘ emperor ’ ( if he was ) because he ruled over several kingdoms ; the kings of León-Castile in the eleventh and twelfth centuries were sometimes called emperors for a slightly different reason , that they had aspirations to rule over other peoples . |
| 8 | He got up six books of Euclid and algebra to simple equations … and … learned all the odes of Horace by heart . ’ |
| 9 | I ONCE read a book by Bertrand Russell in which he said that at the age of seven years ( as I remember ) he got up one night to see whether there were , in fact , four angels round his bed : |
| 10 | Well he got up that railway track , I mean , bloody hell , they might 've thought well that 's one way he 's gon na go . |
| 11 | ‘ Forgive me , Marshal , but it seems unlikely he got out this way . |
| 12 | Yes , as soon as he got off this hill . |
| 13 | And so whilst Ruth and Naomi are resting and waiting back home Boaz is acting , and he sought out this man , he 's determined now to see that Ruth and Naomi receive all that is there 's by right . |
| 14 | He did have a job in the Foreign Literature Publishing House , but he sought out any visitors from London , eager for gossip , and frequently talked about returning . |
| 15 | A man is what he thinks about all day long . |
| 16 | William Lambarde loved Halling and during his time here he built up good relations . |
| 17 | He built up popular support for a war which , in its opening phase , had given rise to a political crisis similar to those that had broken over his father and grandfather . |
| 18 | ‘ He found out next day that Molassi had knifed somebody in the confusion . |
| 19 | For the next five years , until his death in 1953 , he ground out anodyne pieces . |
| 20 | he lives out all year and has a total sunblock applied to protect the sensitive areas . |
| 21 | He holds up each man 's hand . |
| 22 | Sometimes he helped along this impression of participation by opening his mouth and shovelling his chin forward until someone interrupted him . |
| 23 | He moved out next day . |
| 24 | Apparently impervious to Luke 's quick frown , he drew up another chair . |
| 25 | He drew off some fluid and relieved the pressure , then went back to the office , where he shook his head gloomily as he pored over the report that had come back with her from Seapark . |
| 26 | He had a regular mistress and he drew out that money to pay her off before he married the other one . ’ |
| 27 | He caught up two laps before the end , Tambay 's brakes failed and Niki was home . |
| 28 | this lad was , now he was , coming in the bar , he sat just as you come in the door and then he moved to that long thing where we sit , well I go at the bar and Jackie was sat there Jackie , I said time to be social , no I cos I laugh , I were laughing me head off me and he 's jabbering away move like that , his arms moving you know , then he sets off to sing , well , la , la and Johnny said shut up I know Johnny put his glass of beer on the next table to ours and sets off to see Mickey , then he stands up this lad sit down you , must have thought for his beer , I think he was like , I says to Jack I says er you want to put his trousers is all undone , you know sat and his trousers what and his jumper , so our Johnny went he said get that covered up and , but he pulled it down like that , and now he took 'em out he walked through the door and his trousers were falling down but |
| 29 | He stands down this summer looking tired and weary after 20 years in office running a metropolis of ten million people which has a world-wide reputation for its crime , its gangs , its murders , its drugs , its violence , its riots , its burning streets . |
| 30 | He beat up some woman who had to be put into hospital , but Little Liz forgave him . |