Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rather relished the idea of secret investigations . |
| 2 | But Coleridge found that he rather enjoyed the rolling of the deck , and held long and facetious conversations with a talkative fellow passenger . |
| 3 | He did not feel that he would want to return to university , so he decided to apply for an unclassed ‘ War Honours ’ degree — ‘ probably not worth the paper it 's written on ’ , but perhaps enough to get him started in some profession , such as colonial service or , possibly , journalism ; he rather liked the idea of becoming a parliamentary correspondent for a newspaper . |
| 4 | Besides , he rather liked the idea of a well-paid break in Japan . |
| 5 | Jack had been to tea at Tina 's house several times already and he rather liked the estate 's atmosphere , which was friendly and rackety , despite the fact that most of the inhabitants were out of work . |
| 6 | He vastly enriched the world by his inventions . |
| 7 | He courageously liberalised the economy , with both painful and fruitful results . |
| 8 | He slowly lifted the hand which had been clutching his , opened it and very gently implanted a kiss on its palm , and laughed when she gasped at the caress . |
| 9 | To her horror he slowly turned the canoe out into the lake instead of in to shore . |
| 10 | When he had finished his tea , he slowly climbed the staircase . |
| 11 | With relief she saw McGee descend to her rescue and she slipped into the background as he deftly took the Bishop 's coat . |
| 12 | ‘ Where are you from , Doctor ? ’ he deftly turned the conversation . |
| 13 | One of the satisfactions , at the secular level , of which he keenly felt the lack was in the gastronomic sphere . |
| 14 | Instead , he secretly married the daughter of Lord Howard of Effingham . |
| 15 | Once he vigorously defended the CAP , now he is dismantling it . |
| 16 | With his teeth teasing her nipples she was driven beyond argument as he skilfully peeled the costume lower , easing the material over the curve of her hips until the soft triangle of golden curls was unveiled at the junction of stomach and thighs . |
| 17 | He skilfully manoeuvred the motorboat past the bobbing gondolas , which were moored to a forest of striped poles . |
| 18 | He skilfully guided the conversation back to the sinister events surrounding Selkirk 's death for the murder had affected everybody . |
| 19 | ‘ Asked me to keep an eye on you , ’ he repeated mildly as he skilfully opened the bottle of wine . |
| 20 | A bourgeois , a man of the moderate liberal left , and unquestionably ready to confront the forces of conservatism and religion from the late 1850s ( though not before ) , he politely rejected the offer of Karl Marx to dedicate the second volume of Capital to him . |
| 21 | He politely turned the girl down and waited to be admitted to Bronson Manolo 's office . |
| 22 | Unfortunately the Reichsführer had second thoughts when told no less than 800,000 Russians had volunteered for service : he eventually authorised the creation of just two divisions . |
| 23 | He eventually got the girl to agree to a date and walked around with an idiot smile on his face for the few weeks beforehand . |
| 24 | He eventually got the hang of it but to this day , keeps well clear of water . |
| 25 | His repeated warnings of the effect of the United Front on the ILP had been ignored by the National Administrative Council and he eventually left the party altogether and returned to the Labour Party . |
| 26 | In the meantime , he eventually sold the Company as its peak in 1987 , he had made another small fortune , and with some 30 aeroplanes and 80 pilots on the books he felt it was the right time to let it go . |
| 27 | He eventually stopped the car and tried to escape , but was caught by police after a short chase . |
| 28 | The second Mr. Rainsford appears to have got the message and abandoned the trade after five or six years , and he eventually leased the brewery in 1715 to John Paul Espinasse , an ale brewer of Huguenot extraction . |
| 29 | He successfully reformed the service on the Continent , setting up fixed and regular posts for the speeding on of the portmantle or packet , in place of the irregular messengers and carriers who had travelled the whole distance . |
| 30 | He successfully negotiated the repeal of a clause in the statute of 4 & 5 Philip and Mary , c.5 , which seriously prejudiced west-country clothiers ' interests ( 43 Eliz. , c.10 ) , and was one of three who persuaded the French to repeal , in February 1606 , a decree prohibiting the import of English tentered cloth . |