Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was not tall , close to minimum height in fact , but he was stocky , and he made up for lack of inches with a pressing , high-speed manner which sometimes made people think he was all noise and movement and no intelligence . |
| 2 | ‘ Quite a looker , ’ he whispered back to Petion . |
| 3 | Chapman 's absolute authority over the team and his concern for their performance on the field was highlighted by the firm rule he laid down for match days . |
| 4 | As he passed out of sight behind a column another strange figure appeared from the direction in which he had come . |
| 5 | As he hopped out of reach he again cut the darker bird with his spurs . |
| 6 | And he 's got quite a big holding in the group — he sold out in return for stock . |
| 7 | He got round in par figures , but was obviously playing from memory . |
| 8 | He leaned back often for a rest and once he got up to type an envelope on an old typewriter in the window . |
| 9 | When he got down to Punctuality and Considerateness as a Driver , he decided to give up and improvise . |
| 10 | After the obligatory preamble on the weather he got down to business . |
| 11 | He got out of bed and walked across to Jackie as if he were about to say something . |
| 12 | He almost groaned as he got out of bed . |
| 13 | He got out of bed , exclaiming as the cold air enveloped his warm sleepy frame . |
| 14 | He got out of bed and put his clothes on , the same clothes but a clean shirt . |
| 15 | He got out of bed to have a pee . |
| 16 | He got out of bed silently , in the dark . |
| 17 | Hearing noises downstairs , he got out of bed , picked up his bayonet and went to investigate . |
| 18 | He got out of bed and came behind me . |
| 19 | He got out of bed ; Ruth heard him pulling his old flannel dressing-gown and thought once again how very lucky she was . |
| 20 | Could he fall in love with anyone else but Madeleine , he asked himself as he got out of bed and started to get dressed ? |
| 21 | He got out of bed and padded across the carpet to his briefcase . |
| 22 | Yawning , he got out of bed and , unhooking his dressing gown from the back of the bedroom door , shrugged himself into it . |
| 23 | At a quarter to four by the little travelling clock at his bedside he got out of bed and went to the window . |
| 24 | As he got out of bed , she moved . |
| 25 | He got out of bed and looked in his cabinet for his clothes : it was empty . |
| 26 | He got out of bed and drank two glasses of water from the tap then he put his head out of the window and sampled the morning air , tangy with the smell of salt water and seaweed . |
| 27 | He got out of bed . |
| 28 | Vanderford was the stripper he had lived with for three years in San Francisco , starting in 1980 , when he got out of jail . |
| 29 | When he got out of hospital , he left the Force . |
| 30 | A SOUTH Armagh man who told Newry Magistrates Court he was going to get married when he got out of prison , was told he ‘ could get married there now ’ by Regional Magistrate Gerry Harty . |