Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Television crews were invited to stand in front of the US Embassy and film a senior member of the staff , in black tie and dark suit , as he slowly wound up the folding door of an inconspicuous , metal-framed garage . |
| 2 | Then he slowly held up the object he had carried from the car — the object he had found in the gas station . |
| 3 | As for Lee Marvin , he eventually gave up the hard liquor . |
| 4 | And when in 1973 the Lord Chief Justice was asked to ‘ give some guidance upon the phrase ‘ cohabiting as man and wife ’ he swiftly handed back the poisoned cup , saying that the phrase was ‘ so well known that nothing I could say about it could possibly assist in its interpretation hereafter ’ . |
| 5 | In other words , rather than introducing other , more persuasive factors , he merely sets up the court as the arbiter of a medical issue , and decides that , of all the criteria involved , the crucial ones for determining how the individual is to be regarded by the law are the biological criteria . |
| 6 | He admitted that mistakes had been made in the five months since he personally took over the government , especially in the slow pace of privatisation . |
| 7 | Mr Yeltsin admitted that mistakes had been made in the five months since he personally took over the government , especially in the very slow pace of privatisation . |
| 8 | To her intense dismay and astonishment , he suddenly hurled down the room in a series of cartwheels ; he made a whizzing plaything of his devilish masked self , a fizzing Catherine wheel , flashing arms and legs , landing on his hands before her , his upside-down false face obscured by hair both false and real , tumbling over his papier-mâché cheeks . |
| 9 | He impulsively ran down the last flight of stairs . |
| 10 | He 's here , he is here , he just walked up the |
| 11 | Where your mum lived he just lived down the corner . |
| 12 | He just gulps down the one he 's got ! |
| 13 | ‘ It 's some high school kid called Henry Stych , ’ he finally wheezed down the telephone . |
| 14 | He normally hung about the house all day and disappeared before his father brought the sheep back from pasture so as to avoid milking time . |
| 15 | They seem to have bullied him and made him er , make concessions , and the question that Freud and Bullett constantly ask is , why did Wilson make these concessions , especially since his position was already defined before he came to Europe , you know he already laid down the fourteen points , and sold it to the American people . |
| 16 | And the BOR is a friendly fellow too ; he may sometimes be a rough diamond , he may swear and complain about the weather , the food , the British Government , but he shrewdly weighs up the people he meets . |
| 17 | During a protracted confrontation with a drunken heckler he deservedly came out the winner both on points and then with a clear knockout ; the humiliated toper slinking out by a side door . |
| 18 | For five hours he did n't once open his mouth to offer advice or even give an opinion and , when he checked the takings at the end of the day , although we were two shillings and fivepence light from a usual Saturday , he still handed over the sixpenny piece he always gave me at the end of the week . |
| 19 | Because I think I would have thought he 'd stop doing that now , but Pam said he still runs down the bottom of the garden . |
| 20 | He calmly picked up the fallen keys , climbed into the car and drove away , leaving the widow staring at her dead husband . |
| 21 | In London he gradually took over the Underground system and came to control every line except the Metropolitan . |
| 22 | does cos he always looking out the window . |
| 23 | Every time some new one comes out on the market he always calls up the maker and tells them about the small pools win he 's just had . ’ |
| 24 | He quickly tipped out the contents : an apple , a new scarf , an orange , reindeer money , a new game and … nothing else . |
| 25 | As Amiss placed the tray on the table beside Glastonbury 's bed , he quickly sized up the room . |
| 26 | She watched as he quickly sized up the situation and then took command . |
| 27 | He quickly stubbed out the cigarette , replaced his head and raced back up into the daylight to entertain the kids . |
| 28 | He also points out the song 's crucial omission , astonishing in a work of the protest movement : Dylan never says that Zantzinger is white and Hattie Carroll black , and forces the listener to assume that she was because of everything we are told about her : her name , that she had ten children , her position as a maid who ‘ did n't even talk to the people at the table ’ and , more tendentiously , because of what was done to her and the mild punishment meted out to her murderer who ‘ at 24 years/Owns a tobacco farm of 600 acres ’ . |
| 29 | He also took over the editorship of The Stopfordian from Mr. D. J. Roberts , the Second Master since 1978 , who had edited it from 1959 . |
| 30 | By taking on the role of representing France , he also took on the nation 's internal contradictions and unresolved tensions . |