Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At his own expense he established no less than twenty-two charity schools in Pembrokeshire alone . |
| 2 | Visits to Exeter he made as rarely as possible . |
| 3 | Then one evening as she was tidying up the room he said as quietly as if he were taking rifle aim , ‘ There 's no need for you to go turning the whole place upside down . |
| 4 | Foinavon passed the post with his ears pricked and that night he ate up just as usual . |
| 5 | One morning he went so far as to say to Nikos that he thought the affair was now over . |
| 6 | In the coalfields he read as avidly as ever , including in his reading books about the French revolution by Michelet and others . |
| 7 | The set prayers of the Church he defended not only as encouraged by Scripture but because their ‘ very form and solemnity helped that imbecility and weakness ’ which made individuals ‘ much less apt to perform unto God so heavenly a service with such affection of heart and disposition of our souls as is necessary ’ . |
| 8 | To do Haverford justice , he was n't altogether happy about his lack of rapport with his daughter ; at times he came as near as he ever could to feeling guilty about it . |
| 9 | After capture at Tobruk as a chaplain he listened as well as lectured and poured himself out as father , brother and friend , empathising with the religious difficulties of his fellow prisoners which gnawed away at the rigid Anglo-Catholicism of more sheltered days . |
| 10 | He recorded the arrangements made with workmen he employed as carefully as he chronicled the minutiae of his social life . |