Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But why should Joe Maitland do that if 'e went ter the fights 'imself ? ’ |
| 2 | So he hired a lorry , bribed the demolition men to let him cart away the finest doorcases , moulded corner cupboards , cornices and chimney pieces and stored them in a London County Council Historic Buildings warehouse at his own expense . |
| 3 | The way Eleanor exuded rude health made him feel all the weaker . |
| 4 | When he did feel able to write to Coenwulf he reminded him of his humble origins ( but avoided reference to his matrimonial difficulties ) and exhorted him to remember always the very best features of Offa 's reign , avoiding Offa 's displays of greed and cruelty . |
| 5 | ‘ You 've really got him going well The energy is between your leg , seat and rein and he is nicely balanced . |
| 6 | And so they had met ( it had been so easy , as it happened , for him to sneak away the previous afternoon ) nervously and excitedly outside the main entrance to the University Parks at 2.30 p.m . |
| 7 | Observers suggested that election of a Gorbachev ally would enable him to surrender completely the day-to-day running of the party in order to concentrate on the presidency . |
| 8 | As she passed him to put away the files she hesitated for a moment , and instantly his hand shot out to take hers in a crushing grip . |
| 9 | Jean Southworth , QC , in mitigation , said : ‘ This was not a case of him taking away the virginity of this young woman . |
| 10 | The word seemed to him to describe perfectly the smelly , often damp cakes of earth they were forced to burn since coal supplies had been so reduced by the constant cancellation of goods trains . |
| 11 | Certainly not enough to afford shelter for him to get nearer the hut . |
| 12 | Dr Schore says the most impressive statements he has read , inspiring him to investigate further the LM potencies , are the following , by Dr. Pierre Schmidt ‘ … but we must bear in mind that Hahnemann never says anything which has not been duly considered and thought out , and that all his words should be weighed with the utmost care . ’ |
| 13 | This for him highlighted both the frightfulness of war and the ineptitude of the governing classes . |
| 14 | It might not be just to press philosophical objections , since it is obvious that a rhetorical question does not commit him to ignore even the most imminent of coming events . |
| 15 | Now he says he wrote to S & N chairman , Alec Rankin , asking him to explain fully the reasons for switching away from diesel . |
| 16 | THE way things are going , any Rugby Union player who has kept himself fit during the summer , can expect a sudden telephone call inviting him to join either the Lions or England on tour . |
| 17 | This enabled him to bring together the Judaism of his upbringing and the Roman Catholicism and Anglo-Saxon Protestantism in which it was set in Montreal ; the former dominating of course . |
| 18 | Much of what he said was lost in the noise , but once , as we climbed a precipitous path and were no more than four metres apart , I heard him cry aloud the name of William again . |
| 19 | The madman shook his head and stared at the bear but Athelstan saw him blink away the tears which pricked his madcap eyes . |
| 20 | When he asked the new tsar to give land to the peasants he made plain the other . |
| 21 | He made fast the rope round Trent 's neck to the handhold beside the companionway leading down to the head in the port hull . |
| 22 | He stopped short of understanding Christianity because when he thought about that , he laid aside the receptive imagination with which he allowed himself to appreciate myth and became rigidly narrow and empiricist . |
| 23 | And Thucydides describes no sharper conflict than that between the aggressive Spartan Sthenelaidas ( i.86 ) and the more cautious King Archidamus ; for the supposedly more ‘ open ’ society of Athens he records only the views of Pericles and an anonymous delegation which does not contradict him . |
| 24 | Mosley 's turn to political anti-semitism was signalled by his Albert Hall meeting in October 1934 when he attacked both the ‘ big ’ Jews who were seen as a threat to the nation 's economy and the ‘ little ’ Jews who allegedly swamped the cultural identity of localities where they settled . |
| 25 | He attacked both the British and the Russians for their " imperialist " policies in Iran and called for a free , independent Iran with a constitutional monarchy . |
| 26 | For a brief moment he experienced again the exhilaration he had felt on the plain late the previous day when he dropped a big red banteng bull with a single shot from nearly two hundred yards . |
| 27 | He does n't like going to school for a start , but he goes else the old man beats him up . |
| 28 | Anything goes , and the more he goes down-market the more they love it . |
| 29 | No mat if you want it for your dinner here better he goes now the |
| 30 | By the time he reached the White House , he shared fully the deep contempt for Congress that his hero Woodrow Wilson had repeatedly displayed . |