Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv prt] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stalked off to find the airport bus to take them to the SNCF railway station at Roissy , leaving Matchsticks to struggle after him as best he could . |
| 2 | As he cruised around to land the oil temperature resumed a normal reading . |
| 3 | as if belatedly recalling his manners , he got out to circle the car , opened her door for her . |
| 4 | From this he moved on to command the airship station at Wormwood Scrubs , and then went to the Admiralty to help in airship design and allocation . |
| 5 | Whether it was the caffeine or Anthony 's taking so much trouble over her , or perhaps merely the result of laying her aching , pounding head back on the pillow , Julia felt slightly less uncomfortable in bed and she told Anthony so when he came back to take the tray away . |
| 6 | Then I was working and my sister Mary started work and my father went out one night and he came back knocked the door and he was drunk as per usual . |
| 7 | Occasionally , when he came back to Cambridge in later years , and especially when he came back to help the university elect another professor of divinity , he would be nostalgic , and say , ‘ I should like to have another go at being regius professor , . |
| 8 | ‘ I left the bloody old gate open and he came in to check the place . ’ |
| 9 | One morning he woke up to discover the entire ‘ ARCHITECTURE ’ section stacked so high around his desk he had to wait half the day before pupils managed to free him . |
| 10 | A Rottweiler club member checked him out and okayed him , and he drove over to collect the dog . |
| 11 | The driver was oiling an axle box when he turned round to see the trim figure of a young lady with a small boy near the first compartment of the carriage next to the tender . |
| 12 | He turned round to find the man from the other end of the village standing behind him , dubiously shaking his head . |
| 13 | When he turned back to drape the garments alongside his cloak , and saw that Isabel was still clothed and beginning to shiver visibly with cold , his precarious patience snapped . |
| 14 | He glanced at his watch ; less than five minutes , and as he trotted along to intercept the postman 's route he could n't come up with any plan that seemed remotely workable . |
| 15 | He climbed out leaving the car upended on its roof . |
| 16 | He walked around watching the instructors putting the men through their paces and , as on his last visit , seemed to take a particular interest in what was going on in the boxing ring . |
| 17 | With a disbelieving shrug , he walked round to release the bonnet , and then glanced into the engine . |
| 18 | The chairman was alerted and he stepped in to fly the wayward duo into Manchester . |
| 19 | He swung back to face the walkers , who were stirring now , as if responding to his pejorative comments . |
| 20 | He hung up studying the information . |
| 21 | ‘ Goo ter bloody prison with the rest of yer croonies yow 've got yerself mixed up with for all I care , ’ he bawled in reply , and with that he stormed out slamming the door behind . |
| 22 | Here , Freud in terms of paradox , because on the one hand , he started out asking the problem of order . |
| 23 | The lead group approaching Old Windsor were Horak , Rasmussen , Selvick and Paul Wells plus 3 K2s , Blyth being well back in the next group of four although he pulled up to join the leading group at the lock portage . |
| 24 | He leapt up to take the mug from her shaking hand . |
| 25 | He leapt up to discover the truth . |
| 26 | Then he sifted over to receive the Spiderglass buyers . |
| 27 | He reached over to weigh the coffee-pot in his hand , and gestured to Tara , who came quickly across . |
| 28 | ‘ Bastards ! ’ he said loudly , and repeated the oath as he reached up to untie the string that held the body of the puppy . |
| 29 | Even from this distance she could see the way muscles rippled across his chest as he reached up to unlock the window , the wedge of dark hair that arrowed down from his collar-bone , and she felt heat run along her veins . |
| 30 | He reached out to take the flask , and then suddenly he looked up sharply . |