Example sentences of "he [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he rather paradoxically put it , the final cause had to be first . |
| 2 | Other talking points were Paul Cadd 's clapped-out car and slow driving , and him nearly feeling the Hand of Plod when he rather loudly called Rik Mayell a ******* **** after he was announced man of the match : the local constable was ideally placed ( on the touchline , two yards away ) and had a real nik-nik look in his eye . |
| 3 | The influence of French literary tradition was thus limited , but not , as he rather loosely stated in his article , entirely absent . |
| 4 | When occasionally he rather wearily turned on the Government , the reaction was one of surprise more than of dismay . |
| 5 | He rather grumpily agreed and went away saying they would have to rehearse . |
| 6 | As he rather gloomily put together a breakfast of poached egg and grilled bacon he felt neither particularly healthy nor particularly clear-minded . |
| 7 | Above everything else Marx claimed that his work had a scientific status which , as he was never tired of pointing out , was in great contrast to those whom he rather disdainfully referred to as the ‘ utopians ’ . |
| 8 | He rather hauntingly characterises the life of the contemplative as a God-hunt and compares those hounds who see the hare and never weary of the chase until they have their quarry with those who run simply because others in the pack do so . |
| 9 | When he rather reluctantly accepted the suggestion of another Sibelius score , En Saga , he found that ‘ the music suggested rather a different story ’ . |
| 10 | Is the Captain still there , or is he somewhere else ? |
| 11 | He thereby substantially improved the lethal effect of attack . |
| 12 | I think he secretly always wondered if it might have been more entertaining . |
| 13 | Oh , is he on tomorrow ? |
| 14 | What is the shift he on then ? |
| 15 | Is he on then ? |
| 16 | This hint of physical as well as psychological confrontation with primitivism predictably gives rise to the corresponding image of city apocalypse , presented by Charles , the character with whom as Eliot told Martin Browne he most closely identified . |
| 17 | And even if you did find a houngan , he most probably would n't agree to talk to you , since no one here has any sympathies for the blancs who have always exploited us . ’ |
| 18 | Oh well he most probably |
| 19 | He said what he most probably felt at the time , which was the heat of the moment . |
| 20 | In this , of the great poet-critics of the past the one he most nearly resembles is Dryden , whose criticism virtually always comes before us as the preface to a volume of original imaginative writing — including translations which , in this too like Pound , Dryden considers no less ‘ original ’ than poems he has made up for himself . |
| 21 | And again he looked around , this time for the devil who was tempting him with the prospect he most profoundly desired . |
| 22 | Within the region of the Seine basin where Charles 's power was concentrated and where he most often stayed , the counts were of the " lesser " variety . |
| 23 | And it went without saying that , if he was not prepared to take a risk with his money , he most certainly was not prepared to take a risk which might lose him the one person he could trust . |
| 24 | If God had so wished , he most certainly could have created duplicate worlds ; it is only that in so doing God would have acted without a sufficient reason , and this would be contrary to his nature . |
| 25 | ‘ He most certainly was , ’ Henry insisted , ‘ and the witch 's name was Janet . |
| 26 | Fowler said he most certainly would do so . |
| 27 | He most certainly had few fond memories of the latter employment , but it was the former which caused him to curse his luck at having been born in Derby . |
| 28 | Exactly and er we are buying er a two seat version of this aeroplane er our two seat version is aimed primarily at operational training but er we have examined er time and again whether we believe the er the integration of the avionics which is possible in this aeroplane and which is planned for this aeroplane er is going to be able to reduce the pilot work load to such an extent that one man can comfortably do the job and we have arrived at the conclusion that he most certainly can . |
| 29 | But he most definitely had n't . |
| 30 | So OK , without too much effort she had offended Ven Gajdusek , it seemed , but he most definitely had said he would think about giving her the interview ! |