Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the Haig Avenue boss is refusing to take anything for granted as he lines up his first game as a manager in the first round proper . |
| 2 | After a brief conversation with the headmaster , he zipped up his brown leather jacket and pulled his head-wrap across his face . |
| 3 | The only sign he ever gave that anything was amiss in his family was the number of times he got out his thumbnail-sized pipe for the comfort of the single puff it gave him . |
| 4 | Then he got out his old square-toed athlete 's shoes and practised falls onto the bed . |
| 5 | He flung down his soft hat and cane , crossed to where she stood , took her hand . |
| 6 | He flung out his other hand towards them in a desperate plea , and Cardiff moved to take it . |
| 7 | Tomorrow 's international is Dwyer 's 51st as Australian coach , one for every year of his to date and he kicks off his second half-century seeking his 31st victory . |
| 8 | When God forgives us he tears up our unfavourable information folder . |
| 9 | But he , he built up his own graphic design business , by designing something , say , Quality Street . |
| 10 | He holds out his small hand for the ticket . |
| 11 | When he holds out his tiny arms to greet me my whole heart keels over as if a great wave has hit it . |
| 12 | He drew up his bony index finger , stood it to attention next to his aquiline nose , and wagged it furiously . |
| 13 | He drew out his Metropolitan Police diary . |
| 14 | He clenched back his own fears and doubts . |
| 15 | He sucked in his ill-shaven cheeks and stroked his thin lips , and stared at them . |
| 16 | Raising his voice , he shouted over their rising clamour . |
| 17 | Though it may well be , he wrote , that one actually achieves more working with the wrong plans and in the wrong spirit , with the wrong tools and the wrong principles , on the wrong surface and with the wrong conception , it may well be , he wrote ( and Goldberg typed ) , that one achieves more than working with the right plans and in the right spirit , with the right tools and the right principles , on the right surface and with the right conception , though right and wrong and more and less are relative concepts and what seems right at one moment to one person may seem wrong at the same moment to another Person or at another moment to the same person , and what seems more to one person at one moment may seem less to another person at the same moment or at another moment to the same person , right , wrong , more , less , relative concepts , scribbled Goldberg , in the margin , panting slightly as he bent over his old Olivetti Portable , there is only the beginning , wrote Harsnet , or rather , there is only having begun , beginning , scribbled Goldberg , aware now of the black stains on his hands left by the felt-tip pen , having begun , there is only the feeling in the pit of the stomach or the feeling in the chest , wrote Harsnet , the feeling of sickness or the feeling of elation , those are not relative , he wrote , those are absolute . |
| 18 | He stubbed out his half-smoked cigarette savagely in the ash tray . |
| 19 | As he walked towards the towering ship , he mused over his good fortune . |
| 20 | He pored over his 1:100000 maps and finally selected four possibilities . |
| 21 | He came over her sweet melons and into the hollow of her throat , while she massaged the warm spunk into her ivory-white skin . |
| 22 | FIATA now supplies an air waybill form which allows the freight forwarder-consolidator to sign as a contractual carrier , in a box in which he fills in his full name and his capacity as a contractual carrier . |
| 23 | … why should he light up his front lamp to time ? |
| 24 | ‘ We ca n't find out why he drove around his own land when he could have walked . |
| 25 | Figure 5 The courtship displays of the male mandarin drake in which he shows off his striking orange wing feather ( from Owen : Wildfowl of Europe , by kind permission of Macmillan , London and Basingstoke ) . |
| 26 | He turned up his inadequate collar and executed a dance step or two to keep his circulation going . |
| 27 | He stripped off his scaly shirt and breeches and ran his hand over his armpits and groin . |
| 28 | She dragged her eyes up and watched as , unhurriedly , he stripped off his heavy gloves and laid them across the bike before lifting his helmet off and balancing it in front of him . |
| 29 | He stripped off his yellow waterproof . |
| 30 | Hollywood stars from Brooke Shields to Richard Gere graced his New York offices when he opened up his Transatlantic branch . |