Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] he [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , he has asked me to make it clear that he strongly supports the case that I seek to make . |
| 2 | Doubtful if he ever dented a heart ; more than likely he gave quite a number of hearts a new lift after they 'd imagined the ball was over for them . |
| 3 | Of course , it would be different if he deliberately memorized the customers ' names or made a copy of them . |
| 4 | At the risk of stating the obvious , one might say that de Gaulle won his quarrel with Pétain because he correctly predicted the course of the war and Pétain did not . |
| 5 | Were his readers meant to conclude that the corrupt strategy of the Somali policeman was quite acceptable because he thereby produced the ‘ correct ’ election result ? |
| 6 | MR MICHAEL Howard , the Water Minister , yesterday effectively admitted that water shares have been underpriced as he formally closed the deadline for application amid City predictions that the issue will open at a premium of up to 30 per cent . |
| 7 | Alesi 's had been the first leading car to stop during the race and the merit in changing tyres became clear when he immediately set the fastest lap of the race . |
| 8 | He is indeed an exciting player — also i think he is quite young — 22 or 24 or something like that so he also has a future . |
| 9 | There were some constituencies where the interest of a local patron was so strong that he effectively had the power of nominating MPs . |
| 10 | His musical memory was so acute that he once confounded a friend of his father 's , the court trumpeter and violinist Johann Andreas Schachtner , by insisting that Schachtner 's violin had been tuned exactly an eighth of a tone ( a tiny but noticeable fraction ) lower than Wolfgang 's own when he had last heard it — a fact that the astonished Schachtner was able to verify . |
| 11 | This upset the local medical officer of health so much that he legally required the man to refrain from having sex . |
| 12 | Mickey was so delighted that he promptly scored a hat trick in his side 's 4–1 win . |
| 13 | His face was wrinkled and he badly needed a shave . |
| 14 | and my brother Glen , he 's ver he 's , he 's forgetful , he 's very forgetful and he always wants a clean up the sitting room . |
| 15 | ‘ What on earth was that all about ? ’ the young man queried , looking quite shaken as he hurriedly closed the door , but Kate , feeling quite unable to tell him anything , just grimaced and blindly walked away . |
| 16 | ‘ He 's brilliant , he 's happy , he wakes up every day joyous and he never holds a grudge for more than about three minutes . |
| 17 | In his section of the AB , Hincmar attributed many crucial diplomatic and political activities to queens : since some were activities of which he approved , and only some queens were credited with such roles , it seems less likely that he obsessively exaggerated the nefarious influence of women ( though misogyny was in the air breathed by medieval churchmen ) than that he accurately portrayed a feature of Carolingian political life underrecorded by other contemporary writers . |
| 18 | My informant thinks that what he saw was genuine and was certain that someone was down there , his mate in the other box was equally sure that he too saw the figure . |
| 19 | And in fact it shows a lot for human nature because he was chuckling away at the end of it all and he even gave the lads who did the job a tip . |
| 20 | Richard Morton is generally credited with the first medical description in 1689 and he poignantly captured the key clinical feature : ‘ I do not remember that I did ever in all my practice see one , that was conversant with the living so much wasted with the greatest degree of a consumption ( like a skeleton only clad with skin ) ’ . |
| 21 | Meanwhile , Tom McKean was relieved to avoid one of his familiar acts of self-destruction as he successfully negotiated the first hurdle of his quest for gold in the 800m . |
| 22 | Although he did not say so it was evident that he still regarded the Collector 's condition as serious ; the one hopeful sign was that his pulse had become fuller and less frequent . |
| 23 | His walk was very brisk and he always carried a preoccupied expression as if his mind was centred on the way the next work of art might be tackled . |
| 24 | This is noticeably similar to scene one where he repeatedly violates the maxim of quantity to avoid admitting that he knows nothing about Chetwyn : In both scenes , Anderson attempts to avoid divulging information which could compromise his academic credibility . |
| 25 | However , Wlodarczyk claimed on June 13 that he still held the mandate for this post . |
| 26 | I 'm saying years ago my old dad , he , he were eighty nine and he never had a blood test in his life . |
| 27 | He much disliked being described as South African and he later held a British passport . |
| 28 | He might be young but he still had a highly developed sense of humour . |
| 29 | Gedge found the experience of sacking Shaun Charman very traumatic but he still had the resolution to see it through . |
| 30 | But the planners he hates watched unscathed as he mistakenly attacked the housing department 50 yards away . |