Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But why should Joe Maitland do that if 'e went ter the fights 'imself ? ’ |
| 2 | Leith swallowed hard , and knew , before the weakness of loving him , the weakness of wanting him battered down the rest of her defences , small though those defences were , that she had to appeal to that in him which she somehow knew would make him hate himself if he took her . |
| 3 | Just when his eyes were adjusting to the gloom , the novice ahead of him threw open a door , and Gabriel emerged into pale but blinding sunlight flaring in low through the window of the gallery . |
| 4 | He fell forward , as a result of which there was a crowd surge and the people in front of him stumbled down the terraces . |
| 5 | You ca n't escape the noise in these thin little flats , so maybe he 's lying in bed , staring in the dark , listening to the personal stereo I told him fell off a lorry last Christmas , letting reggae drown the sound of grown-ups talking . |
| 6 | Oh , it was a disaster , he was er my estimation of him went down a hundred percent because she smoked |
| 7 | But him put up a fight . |
| 8 | This for him highlighted both the frightfulness of war and the ineptitude of the governing classes . |
| 9 | And then , of course , the other five coins would help him set up a useful practice at some safe distance , say two hundred miles . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He liked the Latin name so much that he made up a sort of rhyme about it and chanted this as he went upstairs : |
| 12 | So he made up a bed in the front of the byre there , and he was sixteen year in it . |
| 13 | ‘ We were a player short and he made up the numbers for us . ’ |
| 14 | When Kevin O'Reilly , who runs the only pharmacy in Ederney , returned to the province , he made up the product for one psoriasis victim . |
| 15 | She could hear Penry moving about upstairs as he made up the other bed . |
| 16 | When he asked the new tsar to give land to the peasants he made plain the other . |
| 17 | He made fast the rope round Trent 's neck to the handhold beside the companionway leading down to the head in the port hull . |
| 18 | Thus a buyer 's legal position is better if he made no examination than if he made merely a superficial one . |
| 19 | He made quite a decent job of it too . |
| 20 | He made quite a fuss about it , saying it was time she left the nest , stood up to the forceful Elise and lived her own life . |
| 21 | Therefore — rightly claiming that his force was as yet incomplete and most of his field guns not brought up — he made only a token attack on the Russian left , while positioning his troops as they detrained and making his own tactical preparations . |
| 22 | He made only a brief speech to the meeting , described by Bridgeman to Davidson ( who was in the Argentine ) as ‘ a good opening — plain and dignified — and with fewer mannerisms than have recently been apparent , and no apparent nervousness ’ . |
| 23 | He made out a case for dressing down rather than up . |
| 24 | To his left wing he made out a line of higher hills and headed for it . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | On 4 July 1933 he made out an application to the Passport Office . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Carson hoped not , as he made out the shape of something like Liawski 's diaries over by the skirting board of the opposite wall . |
| 29 | He made out the black shape of another tunnel mouth . |
| 30 | Then he made out the thousands of tiny rings that studded the ceiling . |