Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv prt] 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | His heart hammered as he choked out the words : ‘ Drowning … . |
| 6 | He emptied out the contents of his briefcase one object at a time before moving on to his pockets . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He says he found out the calves ' tongues were grey and pink . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ She looked too small to be the Queen , ’ said Mr Fagan , so he drew back the curtains to get a better look . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He caught up the skirts of his robe and scurried after them . |
| 18 | When he scrapes back the bolts I wince . |
| 19 | He shouted out the lyrics in a coarse powerful voice , and the musicians smiled and redoubled their efforts to keep pace with him . |
| 20 | He lifted back the drapes and looked out into the road . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He fills up the streams and the paths , like veins |
| 23 | He fills up the rivers he fills up the roads , like tentacles |
| 24 | When he fills up the gaps within the five hundred and twelve row blocks he gets . |
| 25 | He fills up the rivers he fills up the roads , like tentacles |
| 26 | On his newest album , Double Good Everything ( Capitol ) he measures out the steps a soul man must take to remain on top of the game . |
| 27 | At each stop he noted down the shapes and stitch work of other traditional working men 's jumpers . |
| 28 | He turned over the facts again and again in his mind until their monotonous repetition affected him like a dull , nagging pain . |
| 29 | He turned down the blankets and Willie climbed in between the sheets . |
| 30 | I am employing the kind of argument that has been used to resist demands that God prove Himself by miraculous interventions of some form — demands that in Christian tradition Christ himself refused to satisfy when he turned down the Pharisees ' request for a ‘ sign ’ and asked that they have faith instead . |