Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Aveling preferred actresses , but they were more difficult to locate once he left New York , and he rather looked down on what passed as theatre in America , although he admired Buffalo Bill 's Wild West Show . |
| 2 | The answer is an all-too-simple one : by the time he courageously signed on as a volunteer infantryman , John was in the terminal stages of consumption . |
| 3 | There was no more sound , so he slowly reversed back into the road as the Sturmabteilungen from the gate carne up to investigate . |
| 4 | Then , proudly and smiling , he slowly walked back for the presentation , his friends dancing round him patting him . |
| 5 | Two weeks ago he secretly flew back to Sarajevo to speak to 10-year-old Natasha Mihaljcic 's only surviving relative . |
| 6 | It was reported that the final signing had been held up over successive objections raised by Taylor , and that he eventually signed only under pressure from Capt. Blaise Compaore , the head of state of Burkina , a country which , according to some reports , had previously been an important source of arms supplies to Taylor 's faction . |
| 7 | He eventually parachuted out of the aircraft and was arrested . |
| 8 | She added : ‘ When he eventually got on to the train he left the bird on a seat next to his cabin . |
| 9 | At first they talked easily about David 's chances of demobilisation , and the kind of law he would practise when he eventually got back to London , and his prospects of fighting a reasonably safe seat at the next General Election , but inevitably that led on to Julia 's plans . |
| 10 | As I have heard from his crew , he baled out when he eventually got back to the south coast of England . |
| 11 | He eventually fell out with another pioneering figure in the study of distribution , the Manx naturalist Edward Forbes ( 1815–54 ) , who appropriated Watson 's provinces for his own very different study . |
| 12 | The extent of Britain 's interest can be gauged by its response to the invitation : it sent only a civil servant to the preliminary discussions on a common market , and he eventually withdrew completely in November 1955 . |
| 13 | His career had an extraordinary culmination when he eventually turned up in Scotland and was appointed Royal Printer to James VI , afterwards James I of England . |
| 14 | He ended one weekend , which spanned marathons in Holland and Austria , hopelessly lost in Czechoslovakia , where he duly ran out of petrol . |
| 15 | The SPA unanimously elected Kaysone Phomvihane , as the country 's new President , replacing Phoumi Vongvichit , who had served as President in an acting capacity since 1986 when he effectively took over from the ailing Souphanouvong [ see p. 35005 ] . |
| 16 | In fact , he instinctively stepped backwards into the plantation as the car door was thrown open . |
| 17 | For just an instant she seemed to see right into his eyes , past the protective barrier that he instinctively put up against intruders . |
| 18 | Phipps 's latest conquest — he rarely went long without excitement — had been the childless and bored Mrs Venables , whose cake was the last he 'd tasted , and whose husband was the local chemist . |
| 19 | In fact , he rarely came out of Bath and Wells , where he was proving a conscientious diocesan , predictably of a brisk administrative turn of mind . |
| 20 | What we as a family were unanimous about was that he adopted no pose of being the distinguished writer , and even gave the impression that he much preferred not to be treated as such . |
| 21 | He merely knew enough to be careful ( though not careful enough ) about the words coming out under his fist . |
| 22 | He merely looked back at me in a rather peculiar silence . |
| 23 | When invited to lecture at Cheltenham Art Gallery he merely read aloud from a printed copy of his talk , Speculations on the Contemporary Painter . |
| 24 | He merely held on to it , while Bruce pulled him , and with a gurgle of laughter the boy found the apple was in his hand . |
| 25 | If Clarke had intended to pursue his enquiries further , he obviously thought better of it under that formidable gaze . |
| 26 | He only got away with money in one of the raids . |
| 27 | Seeing Alice 's commenting face , Muriel said swiftly , " But he only got back at three this morning , and those Channel boats … |
| 28 | ‘ Even if he only lived here for a few years when he was small , I wanted him to know something of his roots , to be aware of his background . ’ |
| 29 | She did that for half an hour and he only came round for a short time . |
| 30 | I was just checking here in from the book by and I was looking at the chapter here on Roses Rivetus and er and it was on the mission to Munster here that er Third Combat Mission once a day for three days ' running was to Munster it was this ill-fated mission that made the reputation as the bloody Hundredth and of course this is the one that he only came back from . |