Example sentences of "he [adj] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He eagle-eyed the cross bunkers , waggled a few times , opened his shoulders and — wham ! |
2 | He unbuckled the belt and , leaving it around Newley 's waist , looped it through the wheel and through the glassless window of the door . |
3 | He drop-kicked the telegram away , went out for a drink and turned up months later on the first day of filming amiable as an old soldier . |
4 | However , there was no computer system to manage the exercise — when the nav wanted a position line or fix he pre-warned the instructor , who sat the other side of the ‘ cockpit ’ facia , and at the appropriate time a piece of paper was pushed through the wall with the details scrawled upon it ! |
5 | He garbage-dispersed the whodunit concepts because it was always this monster woman behind the scheme to remainder the hero . |
6 | He unclasped the chain and signed to the toisech , who was hovering , to lead his men to join the rest on the riverbank . |
7 | He half-levelled the rifle at me in a menacing way . |
8 | In doing so , he pre-empted the choice of others on what the nation was . |
9 | Such a procedure was well advanced against President Richard Nixon in 1974 for the variety of criminal offences known collectively as ‘ Watergate ’ , when he pre-empted the process by resigning — the first American president to do so . |
10 | Awkwardly he unclipped the flap of the holster on his right hip and withdrew the pistol , holding the butt between thumb and fingers . |
11 | The woman told the court drove her instead to Clumber Park where he unclipped the sign on his taxi then assaulted her in the vehicle before driving her back to Worksop . |
12 | The woman told the court drove her instead to Clumber Park where he unclipped the sign on his taxi then assaulted her in the vehicle before driving her back to Workshop . |
13 | Gathering her back into his arms , he unclipped the safety line on her lifejacket and lifted her on to the saloon settee where she was protected from the surging water by his BMW . |
14 | He jagged the corn on the cob up her pussy , and threw it and he goes no thanks , I just had a lovely corn on the cob . |
15 | He unstoppered the jar and handed it over . |
16 | He untwisted the wire and straightened it out into a piece about a yard long . |
17 | He was so miffed at missing me that he head-banged the door a couple of times , making the pixie doorknocker rattle on its hinge . |
18 | He poohed-poohed the suggestion that Bonanza Boy had too much weight , commenting : ‘ The distance is the key , he 'll love it . |
19 | For instance , Jeff Beck 's hit Hi Ho Silver Lining had a bit in the middle where he double-tracked the guitar and , just for a moment , it breaks into harmony . |
20 | Oldfield excited the crowd with a long run from the halfway line and when he back-heeled the ball to Mills the full-back hit his shot against a post . |
21 | As does his 1984 ‘ collaborative ’ work with Jean-Michel Basquiat and Francesco Clemente , in which he silk-screened the paintings of the two young artists ( Ratcliff 1985 , p. 70 ) . |
22 | Then he unpinned the length of chiffon and let it fall to the floor . |
23 | If a client refused to answer the dealer was n't blamed provided he time-stamped the client profile card , and recorded appropriate comments . |
24 | If garbage pickers were to become regular employees , the price of waste paper would rise by at least three times and it would not he worthwhile the company buying it . |
25 | He had packed his own things ; with fingers that trembled slightly , he unstrapped the case , took out his brush , and gave it to her . |
26 | After wiping his hands very carefully on the tail of his grubby vest , he unwrapped the parcel and placed his food on the makeshift paper plate . |
27 | He unwrapped the handkerchiefs , contrived to get a good amount of mud down his boots and pretended to make a bad landing from the monkey rope and was dispatched to the sanatorium with a suspected sprain . |
28 | He unwrapped the cellophane then looked across at Kolchinsky . |
29 | Then with Tab 's help he nailed-down the lid , reciting the prayers for the dead , and entered her name amongst other deceased of the parish to be remembered at the weekly Requiem Mass . |
30 | He serrated the air with his sword and used his shield as a wall and a battering-ram . |