Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | But an object contemplated for its beauty alone spontaneously attracts the spectator and rouses him to expand and intensify his awareness of it ; and however much or little trust he may put in the formulation of aesthetic standards , he evaluates it by his reaction at the unsustainable height of concentration when he is responding to all his information at once . |
| 2 | The child , possessed by wonder and nameless hauntings , tried to join together the heavings and creakings and groans and gasps and little cries he had heard as he lay on the floor , his mother 's disturbed concentration now , his father 's stillness as if felled , and the sticky warmth in which he lay between them , something more than the sweat that was there before , a substance he divined as elemental , mysterious , newly decanted , that touched his flesh and his senses with profound , unattainable meaning . |
| 3 | But the answer is , each one secretly thinks he 's the best . |
| 4 | Aperte fro thet he writen has , |
| 5 | He moved across to them , and when he was standing next to André she noticed how much taller and more powerfully built he was . |
| 6 | Stephen had rather expected he would do that . |
| 7 | What right has he in me , but such as a thief may plead to stolen goods ? |
| 8 | What right has he to comment on the ‘ quality of fans ’ at the Levellers gigs ? |
| 9 | What right has he to comment on the ‘ quality of fans ’ at the Levellers gigs ? |
| 10 | What right has he got to know or anything ? |
| 11 | Right has he got one ? |
| 12 | But he put a hand on my shoulder and said , in that philosophical , gravelly voice he had , ‘ All we have to believe in is our children . |
| 13 | And if her husband comes back , as he is apparently hinting he might , or if she moves , or gets a job , as she is always threatening to do if he does n't , or if my colleagues in the DSS find out that I am paying her , then even this hopeless arrangement will come to an end and I shall be back to the agencies and the advertisements , back to the interviews and the references , back to strangers in the house . |
| 14 | Halfway round he says to Gary , ‘ Do you want to swap caddies ? ’ |
| 15 | I can only presume he means the cir-culation in his big toe after osculatory manipulation by his lover . |
| 16 | Glancing at the old man , Jack suddenly realized he was just trying to distract him , to prevent his mind leaping ahead to whatever was happening at the hospital . |
| 17 | She suddenly realized he really was interested in the ship . |
| 18 | A heavy silence filled the air and Newman suddenly realized he had heard no birds sing since they entered the area . |
| 19 | Ace suddenly realized he might have taken other damage . |
| 20 | I suddenly realized he was crying . |
| 21 | Does it matter whether he really died in a burning building or whether he only thinks he did ? |
| 22 | He only thinks he can beat you . ’ |
| 23 | That summer I could only think he was mad as he set off around the town and I dozed in the dark heat and stillness of the garden . |
| 24 | He suddenly realised he had newer thought of the possible need to tell lies about why he was there . |
| 25 | And it was one of our viewers who , after watching the programme , provided the crucial breakthrough … he suddenly realised he was a workmate of the killer . |
| 26 | Corbett suddenly realised he was in the corner of the hall . |
| 27 | His sleeves were rolled up , his dark hair had fallen partly across his forehead , and Maggie suddenly realised he was dangerously attractive besides every other danger he represented . |
| 28 | He breathed a sigh or relief when Mrs Long announced he had polled 31 . |
| 29 | Ever heard the expression , ‘ He 's so stoned he does n't know what day of the week it is ’ ? |
| 30 | Though Thomas was greatly revered he had never been well off , and now that he had retired from government advisory jobs he earned nothing much except by writing . |