Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having failed English Alevel , five years on he made up for this by getting a first for his thesis and a fine arts degree from Portsmouth Polytechnic . |
| 2 | He lived in at that time just over the road er down the road here and then something went wrong during the war that was over my father and er cos matter of fact when my father come off the dredger erm the Harbourmaster wanted to give him er he give him the push and turned round and he said my father name was . |
| 3 | In 1957 he met up with some of the world 's leading canoeists who had fled the Hungarian uprising and this fostered an interest and ambition to see Britain rise from the status of also rans to the achieving of Olympic and World Championship medals . |
| 4 | Jimmy watched him , wondering how long it would be before he met up with this guy again on the street . |
| 5 | But Fleury knew that his life depended on not being shaken off and so he clung on with all his might , his legs gripping the sepoy 's waist as tight as a corset , his hands dragging on the two broken pieces of violin . |
| 6 | But it was for the lock from the people , you know and he , he got round like this , and this is the God 's truth as well again , he 'd come to me from America and er they , I had to make locks for certain people they called them statos , status symbols there , in their own houses , you know , where they put this lock on and anybody as he 's got one like that , you know and from America to Dick in Willenhall to make them . |
| 7 | Books were obviously supernumerary , and he began jettisoning them until he got down to those two which every guest on ‘ Desert Island Discs ’ is furnished with as a bare , civilised minimum : the Bible and Shakespeare . |
| 8 | He used to have a Council flat , but I think he got out of that . |
| 9 | ‘ No one could believe he got out of that . |
| 10 | Well my there 's never any please , there 's never any thank you , there 's nothing , I mean there are are n't they , when he was saying that all he 's done for her and they virtually like turned their back on them , he got out in all those winds and weather were n't it , but , we built there and he come out apparently and said I do n't want you having anything else to do with my kids , |
| 11 | He built out of that illusion a political cause which stirred the British electorate as it had not been stirred for decades and which has left its imprint on the Conservative Party and on British trade policy down to the present . |
| 12 | I ca n't imagine what his father would say if he found out about this . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's talking to Jorge and looking up towards your room , ’ Maggie said drily , wondering just what Felipe would use to kill her if he found out about this piece of sabotage . |
| 14 | Nick warmed up his caddie career from 1971 to 1974 carrying Archer 's bag , and then moved on to work for Australian Bruce Crampton until 1977 , when he moved on to another Australian , Graham Marsh . |
| 15 | Then he moved on from that , into what he called Alan Ladd suits . |
| 16 | He realised this would be Springfield 's cordon of beaters driving the escaping sect heavies towards the highway , and he moved off in that direction himself . |
| 17 | The inventory of the museum 's contents that he drew up with such meticulous care , accompanying his sections for each room with an admirable sketch showing the location of each item , remained in use and he catalogued the museum 's large collection of drawings by Robert Adam [ q.v . ] . |
| 18 | He paced about for some time , looking agitated . |
| 19 | As he staggered back with some misshapen logs , she would hand the bellows to her latest friend and say , ‘ You blow up my fire . |
| 20 | ‘ Now , Trevor , ’ Derek Carlisle confronted his colleague , ‘ we know that the President of the World faced a demand for higher salaries from our research workers ; that unless he came up with some incentive we would lose the best of those workers ; and that the increased contribution towards marioc manufacture would compete directly for Exchequer funds . |
| 21 | When asked how he came up with this figure he could n't quite s remember and his department did n't know , so if you put that to one side . |
| 22 | He came up with this how neurons actually did learn . |
| 23 | I wish it were , but it 's actually the director 's baby and he came up with this wonderful idea er at the time when the wall was beginning to crack . |
| 24 | During his brave and daring life he came up against many dangers , none so well remembered and retold as the story of how he was saved from death at the hands of the Red Indians by Pocohontas , daughter of Chief Powhattan . |
| 25 | Instead , he came back with such surprising ferocity of his own that by the bell at least one judge thought he 'd done enough to win the round . |
| 26 | He came back with some coarse paper towels from the forecourt dispenser and wiped my mouth with one bit and the rest of my face with another bit . |
| 27 | But if she took the stallion at the end of that three weeks , he came back in another eleven days in case er she was n't settled you see . |
| 28 | Whining farting howling erm he came in at half past five and er overnight again she 's got two carloads there so it was just the same till gone eleven anyway when Mick came in I said to him what did that bloke say and he said he 's looking out some different equipment to what he |
| 29 | Others say he came in with both , and when he left the office there seemed even more blood on his apron . |
| 30 | ‘ He came in with this folded mag ’ , remembers Sue Small . |