Example sentences of "he [vb past] [prep] the kitchen " in BNC.
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| 1 | Doone pondered , made up his mind , went out to his car and returned carrying a five-foot plank which he laid across the kitchen table . |
| 2 | He crept into the kitchen and closed the door behind him , making sure its heavy curtain stretched right to the wall on either side . |
| 3 | As he headed for the kitchens , wondering what had happened , he saw Mould running towards him . |
| 4 | After spending six months as a landing officer , he moved to the kitchens . |
| 5 | You 'll be doing him a favour , she 'd thought , and so as he wandered past the kitchen on a mid-afternoon stroll she crept up behind him and grabbed him by the neck . |
| 6 | When he had finished , signed a few cheques for Lily to post for the gas , electricity and other essentials , he wandered into the kitchen . |
| 7 | He wandered into the kitchen , where he found a freshly-brewed pot of tea . |
| 8 | He stopped outside the kitchen door and carefully cracked it open a fraction — and looked straight into Jane 's wide eyes . |
| 9 | He fled to the kitchen and brought back the bottle . |
| 10 | Bent almost double , he darted towards the kitchen , pressing himself against the wall . |
| 11 | When he walked the perimeter fence , when he worked at the bench with the wood that would become a chair 's leg , when he ate in the Kitchen , when he lay on the top tier of the bunk , he was alive and alert . |
| 12 | Claire got up when he came into the kitchen . |
| 13 | He came into the kitchen looking strange in her father 's trousers and leather waistcoat . |
| 14 | Usually when he was giving one of his little dinners he came into the kitchen while they were preparing it , joked with them , had his hands smacked smartly by Matey when he lifted saucepan lids and tried to peer into the oven ; but today he stayed away . |
| 15 | He came into the kitchen with her , perching upon one of units and watching her as she boiled the kettle and took down a couple of mugs . |
| 16 | She noted the flicker of a smile as he came into the kitchen and poured himself a cup of coffee , but she ignored him , turning her back as she scanned the phone book , desperately hunting for a garage that was reasonably near to this god-forsaken place . |
| 17 | He came into the kitchen after a few moments and she turned away , wandering to the far side to get away from him , battling with the sudden incredible desire to break down and sob like a little girl who had done the wrong thing yet again . |
| 18 | But er she 's coming a and gives him twenty five pounds for what he 's done oh he came in , he came into the kitchen , it 's ever so funny , he came into the kitchen to tell me about this you see Anyway he came back in there and I said to him I 'm not really enthusiastic about the thought er thinking that I was involved with this as well so the dear woman turned round and said to me it 's only your husband so I said well I 'd better go back in the kitchen where I know my place . |
| 19 | But er she 's coming a and gives him twenty five pounds for what he 's done oh he came in , he came into the kitchen , it 's ever so funny , he came into the kitchen to tell me about this you see Anyway he came back in there and I said to him I 'm not really enthusiastic about the thought er thinking that I was involved with this as well so the dear woman turned round and said to me it 's only your husband so I said well I 'd better go back in the kitchen where I know my place . |
| 20 | As he came through the kitchen door , he said , ‘ I 'll oil that gate for you tomorrow when we clear the garden … |
| 21 | When he rooted around the kitchen he was amazed at the amount of food she had stored . |
| 22 | ’ He turned at the kitchen door . |
| 23 | He nodded towards the kitchen . |
| 24 | Maxham winced as he walked across the kitchen . |
| 25 | Carrying the telephone with him , he walked into the kitchen and poured himself a small whisky . |
| 26 | Mind made up , he returned to the kitchen , picked up his zipper jacket and departed , officially for school , but in fact for the town to do some shopping . |
| 27 | He stepped into the kitchen and put something on the table . |
| 28 | He glanced around the kitchen . |
| 29 | The tour , originally scheduled to leave at 9.30 a.m. , could not now leave until well after a buffet lunch , if this latter could he arranged by the kitchen staff ( the Manager nodded ) . |
| 30 | In the mornings he worked in the kitchen while his aunt baked or cooked or sewed ; here in the evenings he absorbed the sense of the impact of new industries on an older more settled way of life which , much later , found its way into the stories and sketches of his best Welsh work , Rest and Unrest and Light and Twilight . |