Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Initially reluctant to tackle the area of post-war policy ( doubtless with thoughts of Lloyd George 's empty words of a quarter-century previously ) , when he did so he insisted on a full-blooded promise over the opposition of many in his party and administration . |
| 2 | She did not say anything more so he added in a real voice and proper words , ‘ Delia , I have to . ’ |
| 3 | In doing so he conceded to a key opposition demand and thereby appeared to have ended an opposition boycott of the legislature which had been called to protest against the government 's decision in early 1992 to postpone local elections . |
| 4 | So he settled for a secure telephone call , indifferent to what that would do to Maxim 's reputation among the Defence Staff at the embassy . |
| 5 | So he lives with a lurking fear of exposure as a fraud . |
| 6 | As he reeled the fish in he listened with a growing sense of dismay and despair to the baseball commentary on the radio . |
| 7 | While riding along he fell into a lengthy dispute with Molla Muhammad , known as Zeyrek , at this time probably muderris at one of the medreses which Mehmed II created by the conversion of churches after the conquest of Constantinople , which were , in effect , precursors of the Sahn . |
| 8 | Soon he came to a bright restaurant on Broadway . |
| 9 | Finally he fell into a deep , deep sleep . |
| 10 | Finally he settled upon a blunt statement of fact . |
| 11 | I followed Green round corners till finally he stopped outside a green painted door . |
| 12 | Later still he became for a short time a professor at Cambridge . |
| 13 | Thereafter he prospered as a royal attendant , who at times served on campaign , and as a county magnate . |
| 14 | Busily he scribbled in a scratchy copperplate hand that had been taught him by a schoolmistress from the hills of Brecon his thoughts and directives in the margins of the typed sheets . |
| 15 | Later he responded in a similar way to D. H. Lawrence 's criticism , as well as to his creative achievement . |
| 16 | Penaud dived on the ball to score and two minutes later he squeezed through a struggling defence for a second try with third-phase ball . |
| 17 | Consider this example : PB = Child has tantrum whenever he asks for a sweet ( or something else ) and does not get it . |
| 18 | The controller requires very little setting.up , as information the motor 's torque/speed characteristic can be acquired automatically he results of a single run to high speed using a known large inertial load . |
| 19 | Now he lived in a neat semi-detached on the outskirts of Bradford with his wife and three lovely kids , earning a comfortable , respectable living doing weddings , portraits , the odd news pic for the local paper . |
| 20 | His tone had changed again , and now he spoke like a worried father who still lives in hope for his son . |
| 21 | Fussily he searched for a safe place , finally leaning the contraption against the wall behind his chair before sitting down . |
| 22 | Negligently he reached into a front garden and yanked a flower from its tree . |
| 23 | Tomorrow he takes in a further round of 125cc British championship at Donington Park and after his ninth spot in the Supercup at a wet Oulton last weekend he 'll be one of the leading contenders . |
| 24 | Around and around he went in a silly game of tag . |
| 25 | Gamekeeper John Bosher returning to the Blenheim estate wood where 10 years ago he came across a half decomposed body . |
| 26 | A couple of weeks ago he spoke to a seething crowd in Harare township , which included hundreds of his young African militants . |
| 27 | Here he leered in a conspiratorial fashion . |
| 28 | Here he comes with a black eye . |
| 29 | Eventually he said in a strange and distant voice , ‘ The sky was so … big … so daunting … and I was afraid . |
| 30 | To be sure , the characteristics of the transcendent self remain in play : to become what others saw him as being required great self-discipline ‘ similar to spiritual exercises ’ ; eventually he aspires to a classical stoic independence of spirit , a kind of sainthood ( p. 146 ) . |