Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he took up the longest and sharpest , wrapping its hilt round in his leather apron , and waited . |
| 2 | Thus he puts forward the very man as an example of an adjective which qualifies the sense alone . |
| 3 | Thus he held together the two things which in the Enlightenment tended to fall apart , and to be defined in opposition to each other — faith against knowledge , revelation against reason . |
| 4 | Tonight he holds back the ill-concealed shudders and caresses the swelling head , he bends and kisses the skin exposed . |
| 5 | Guiltily he wiped away the girlish tear-stains with the back of his hand . |
| 6 | Directly he did so the whole village , shops , inns , stalls , and people , and the river of wine , all vanished away ; nothing remained but the waterfall dashing over its crag . |
| 7 | In February 1922 , Hitler told his SA that the ‘ Jewish Question ’ was the only thing that mattered , and a few months later he summed up the entire Party Programme in the one point : that no Jew could be a ‘ people 's comrade ’ . |
| 8 | Now he wore only the bottom half of pyjamas , thin cotton ones that clung to him , revealing more than they concealed of his strong muscular body . |
| 9 | Well he climbed up the bloody first stair . |
| 10 | Stealthily he slipped down the deserted staircase past the second and third floors without mishap . |
| 11 | And then he woke up the next morning and threw up everywhere . |
| 12 | Then he made out the thousands of tiny rings that studded the ceiling . |
| 13 | Then he ran down the wooden stair , through the house , out to the lower lawn . |
| 14 | I said he 's my father and then he falls out the fucking bed when they put him in it because they admit negligence , they forgot to put the cot side up , dad has got lack of oxygen to his bra brain , he thought it was the Battle of Hastings going on but they said there was nobody there , well surely they must have known Joy he fell out the bloody bed because he 's laying like this and he 's falling and he 's falling and bang come out , he split all his bloody head open , do you know the blood was there from the night he fell out , he fell out at half past ten at night and they never informed us , which is against the law and the blood still sat there at quarter to four the following day , all over the floor , he 's got a bloody stitch in his head which they done to him while he were in the bed , and ripped three tubes out of his arm , split all his bloody arm open |
| 15 | Then he thought how the long streets were dotted with lamps , and how the peaceful stars were shining overhead ( 5 ) . |
| 16 | Then he searched out the little hard protruding button that was the energy of her sex , he stabbed at it with his tongue , felt her respond quickly , then urgently . |
| 17 | Then he came back the next day — I think it was the next day — and told us who 'd died . |
| 18 | Then he turned back the top sheet and blankets . |
| 19 | Then he picked up the two bags and led her into the terminal . |
| 20 | Then he picked up the internal phone and pressed a button . |
| 21 | Then he picked up the fainter smells of buttercups and horses . |
| 22 | And little , twinkly Claus Korth , captain of U.93 with a crew of forty-four , described poetically how he picked up the forty-nine survivors of a Bismarck supply ship , the Belchen , and brought his heavily overloaded boat back to France . |
| 23 | Instead he summoned up the perennial fears on the East Bank of Israeli destabilisation and denounced what he said were Zionist plots to make Jordan a substitute homeland for the Palestinians . |
| 24 | His most productive bowling season was 1952 , when he chalked up the first of his five successive championships . |
| 25 | At thirty-two , Malcolm McLaren was seven years older than Branson , yet he looked only the same age , possibly even younger : a short and wiry figure dressed in pointed boots , black jeans and a tight-fitting suit jacket of Italianate design . |
| 26 | In Burma , where he had only the British Colonial Office and colonial administrators to deal with , he was more or less able to have his way . |
| 27 | King Haakon , defeated by Alexander II of Scotland at the Battle of Largs in 1263 , fled to Orkney , where he died later the same year ; and Norse rule ended when King Christian I pledged Orkney as security for the dowry of his daughter , The Maid of Norway , sent as bride to King James III . |
| 28 | When one sees that it was this snobbery which he set out to attack , it is possible to understand why he set about the delicate problem of pain in so breezy a fashion . |