Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I rushed to see a physiotherapist , John Harris , and he made up a little pad around it with a hole in the middle so that I would n't put any pressure on it . |
| 2 | She could hear Penry moving about upstairs as he made up the other bed . |
| 3 | He made out a clear case for embalming all bodies and for treating them all similarly , bearing in mind the long incubation period and uncertain diagnosis in HIV infections . |
| 4 | He made out the black shape of another tunnel mouth . |
| 5 | He made out the high-backed chair to one side of the fire and sank into it , sitting tall and erect , careful not to crease his dinner jacket . |
| 6 | Then he made out the thousands of tiny rings that studded the ceiling . |
| 7 | On it he laid out a simple grid of streets with a central site for the new church of St Thomas , surrounded by 61 1 house plots . |
| 8 | Mr Rabin said he favoured allowing some deportees to join the Palestinian delegation , but he ruled out the two deportees on the reported Egyptian list because they were PLO officials . |
| 9 | He began to recite a litany of his own successes to himself as he passed down the quiet , thickly carpeted corridors to the executive lift that went up to the eighteenth floor : a new apartment in the smart suburb of Beauséjour ; a smaller apartment in Montparnasse , with a most accommodating young mistress ; two cars , one the largest and latest registration Citroën Familiale ; a generous expense account , which was not queried too closely — he hoped was not queried too closely . |
| 10 | She would pretend to be frightened when he jumped out , would call out to him to be careful when he crept along an overhanging branch and hung , skimming the water . |
| 11 | He saw something erm he saw a cat and he zoomed out the front door and he was gone and it 's only when he lost sight of the cat he thought about where he was |
| 12 | As he rode down the narrow goat-trails of the Khyber Pass , Battuta would have known that the Delhi Sultanate was violent frontier country , constantly in a state of war with the pagan Mongols to the north and the infidel Hindus to the south . |
| 13 | As he was moving down , he whipped out an orange stick and began hastily manicuring his nails . |
| 14 | ‘ Sorry , ’ she said , feeling him watching her and he fought back a violent physical impulse to give her a cuddle and take her away from all this . |
| 15 | His eyes watered so fiercely that tears ran down his cheeks , but he fought down the choking sensation and his self-esteem soared . |
| 16 | ‘ Was the action taken by the British the proper thing to do ? ’ he asked down a crackling line from Buenos Aires to Woodward 's home in Surbiton , Surrey . |
| 17 | Naturally he he wanted to keep his place open and when he got up the next morning somebody had painted the side of the van completely over . |
| 18 | He jumped into the shower and felt a little better when he got out a few seconds later . |
| 19 | He got out the cheating stick and clipped the peg , swarming up in a daisy chain of quick-draws . |
| 20 | He got out the brown envelope and spread the photographs on his lap . |
| 21 | Deprived of royal favour , and hounded from Radnorshire politics by his great rivals the Harleys , he sought out a new patron , Thomas Grey , second Earl of Stamford [ q.v. ] , a new parliamentary seat ( first for Breconshire and then as Stamford 's nominee for Bere Alston ) , and a new reputation as an energetic House of Commons man . |
| 22 | He emptied out the fired cartridge cases , went across to the sink and washed the gun under the hot tap . |
| 23 | Over the wall , Frear had come in and was talking to one of the waiters as he wiped down the outside tables . |
| 24 | This gallant officer , the colonel assured the regiment , careless of his own safety , continued the attack after Lieutenant Harvey had fallen , killing several German soldiers before reaching their dugouts , where he wiped out a complete enemy unit singlehanded . |
| 25 | Mr was completely wrong about the Labour amendment erm in fact he read out the wrong amendment altogether . |
| 26 | He tried out a possible ‘ Jotting ’ on Fosdyke . |
| 27 | Meanwhile , in the Doubles final Ian McClure was heading for his second Irish title when he built up a 19-6 lead after 13 ends over James Talbot and Michael Nutt of Old Bleach . |
| 28 | Going into manufacturing for himself , therefore , was something that came fairly easy to him and for most of the 1950s he built up a substantial furniture business . |
| 29 | He built up a complete instrument and travelled round the Dales on a horse and cart playing it . |
| 30 | In the weeks that followed he built up a regular round of customers and boasted that it was better than going to work , especially on cold winter mornings . |