Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] the [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Very gently he caught the long glittering strands and brushed them behind her ear , his fingers lingering coolly against her flesh just for a moment before he let them drop to his side . |
| 2 | Suddenly he realised the single glaring inconsistency in any line of argument which was designed to point to revenge or the settlement of a grudge as a motive for the attempt . |
| 3 | Looking down he saw the final fearful act of that day . |
| 4 | Law was bound to give way but in doing so he sacrificed the only positive policy he had . |
| 5 | So he allowed the strange old Englishwoman to play her game of gaoler . |
| 6 | I later recorded he invariably used the idea of an ‘ escape from real work ’ to describe any research secondment ; in doing so he embodied the common institutional fear of uncontrolled social movement across a divide or boundary into another society such as academia . |
| 7 | At home he rarely had more than a piece of toast and marmalade for breakfast , but when he was away he ate the whole cooked breakfast . |
| 8 | Plus he pays the Gross National Product of Malawi in child support every month . |
| 9 | I take her to school , I come back , and my husband shoots off he minds the other two for me while I go to the school . |
| 10 | Agassi withdrew last Friday from the grass court event in Halle , but yesterday he took the last remaining wild card reserved for him by tournament organisers hopeful he would be fit to play . |
| 11 | But the more he repeated the simple daily rituals of Muslim belief , the more he felt the urge to adopt a brusque , English attitude to them . |
| 12 | Then a few months later he hosted the local natural history club 's wildlife question time . |
| 13 | Partly educated by a Jesuit , he spent some years in Rome , and rendered services to Pope Gregory XVI , but later he left the Roman Catholic Church . |
| 14 | Ten seconds later he passed the two hundred fifty metre mark . |
| 15 | Well it 's , look he passed the hundred and fifty metre mark , ten seconds later he passed the two hundred and fifty metre mark , how far did he run in ten seconds and you 've put down a hundred metres |
| 16 | The Leader would give him a right bollocking , but there were no hard feelings , because everyone knew that really he loved the poor little bugger , with an almost fatherly concern . |
| 17 | He sent me into the pub to have a drink , and when I came out he had the two back shoes on . |
| 18 | Here he creates the many happy and not so happy incidents that can occur on a skating rink where even a professional can ‘ miss a trick ’ . |
| 19 | Additionally he won the English national cross-country title in 1882 , 1883 , and 1884 . |
| 20 | Then he rejoined the other 2 defendants outside the barn . |
| 21 | Then he caught the unmistakable dead man 's stench of river water , heaving slowly , but always finding , no matter what the obstacle , the shortest way home . |
| 22 | Hyatt , a Canadian case which was decided by the Privy Council , it was held that where a director holds himself out to be the agent of the shareholders , then he owes the same fiduciary duties as would an ordinary agent to his principal . |
| 23 | Then he remembered the eager questioning eyes of the four women he had met that evening — it would hardly be suitable for them . |
| 24 | To understand Bukharin 's particular views on the transition period to socialism it is necessary to understand how he viewed the then current stage of capitalist development . |
| 25 | It seems that the potential of this new method was not realized in petrology for another forty years , for the first printed account did not appear until 1831 , in H. T. M. Witham 's Observations on Fossil Vegetables , when he published an account of how he prepared the many thin slices of fossil wood of which a microscopical description is furnished in the text . |
| 26 | How he misses the good old days when he would punt out OTC stock , even though the punters had invested so often in vain . |
| 27 | As he came closer he saw the old Georgian mansion was illuminated with lights in all the windows . |
| 28 | Boy George caused terrific confusion and ambiguous squaddie stiffies when he became the archetypal 1982 pop star — cross-dressing , camp , six foot tall and sexy . |
| 29 | STEVE CRAM will make his debut at 5,000 metres next month when he becomes the first British athlete to compete in South Africa for almost 20 years . |
| 30 | Möllemann , the first German minister to visit since June 1989 , requested information on 903 political prisoners when he met the Chinese Prime Minister , Li Peng , and said that trade and economic relations would be dependent on improvements in human rights . |