Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gently he pressed the two ends of the wallet 's rim towards each other . |
| 2 | Apparently he says the old ones were totally inadequate . ’ |
| 3 | Before he sat down he kissed the two women , first on the cheek , then on the lips . |
| 4 | In doing so he lost the only friends he had here in Paris , such as they were . |
| 5 | At three o'clock he drove the four miles to Rose Brady 's house . |
| 6 | Thus he considered the social sciences too messy to have a paradigm or even to be likely soon to acquire one . |
| 7 | How deliberately he used the wrong names I do n't know but he would announce that he was about to demonstrate the " Leg push " . |
| 8 | Harrison kept intent on the gentleman but still he noted the two boats on the lake — one had caught what must be a pike from the struggle — heard the chiming axes of the woodmen , noted the flocks on the Scale Force bank of Crummock and , more particularly , a pair of swallows playing beside the water — these and a score of other impressions gave him a richness of context denied Hope who , after struggling with his pipe , battled on , oblivious of all that was about him , to confirm and exercise his new and gloriously liberated Christianity . |
| 9 | Yet retrospectively he envied the Mallory children their hardships — the shared beds , the shoes that pinched , the heaps of washing , the inconvenience of too many babies in too short a time , the lack of privacy , the meagre pocket-money , the quarrels and tears , because with these things went other things infinitely precious , laughter and love , tenderness and the joy of living , things signally missing from his own childhood . |
| 10 | But yesterday he found the would-be thieves had smashed the door lock in an attempt to break in . |
| 11 | By the beginning of 1939 , he saw only the unpleasant alternatives of uninterrupted decay or some form of authoritarian political leadership which might arrest it artificially , and exactly a year later he described the fatal weaknesses of Western democracy , and how the progress of industrialization was creating an apathetic citizenry — the kind of people who could only be aroused by despots like Hitler . |
| 12 | She had left her imprint upon them , and now her mind overlapped with his whenever he wore the sacred lenses . |
| 13 | Now he saw the missing details in his nightmare . |
| 14 | The little boy 's search had been successful , for now he brandished the scarlet sports car which was the prize of his collection . |
| 15 | Cautiously he mounted the remaining stairs , recognised the figure for what it was and stepped over it to the wheelhouse . |
| 16 | Even had Gloucester wished to take a more independent line in Wales , it is doubtful how far he had the necessary connections . |
| 17 | Even had Gloucester wished to take a more independent line in Wales , it is doubtful how far he had the necessary connections . |
| 18 | Eventually he heard the cultured tones of the Consultant Surgeon , Edward Siegel . |
| 19 | For a second Sharpe 's heart leapt , thinking that a battalion of Riflemen had arrived , then he saw the yellow crossbelts over the green coats and he knew he was seeing Prince Bernhard of Saxe-Weimar 's force of Nassauers . |
| 20 | And then he heard the automatic alarms . |
| 21 | Then he terrorised the hysterical wives into mutilating their private parts with needles and pins , a court heard yesterday . |
| 22 | Then he noticed the dark eyes , smouldering with hate at him from beneath tangled strands of black hair . |
| 23 | Then he found the white posts marking each one , and could read some of the names . |
| 24 | Then he remembered the red lozenges he 'd sucked all the way in the car . |
| 25 | He tore the pages up into big pieces and then he tore the big pieces up into tiny pieces . |
| 26 | Then he turned the few feet to Creggan 's cage and stared up to where Creggan had taken stance on the bare branch of wood that hung across his cage . |
| 27 | In Monet 's The Gare Saint-Lazare pigment and cross-section analyses have shown how he built up the layers and how he achieved the dark tones using the bright colours of the impressionist palette ; no black was used . |
| 28 | He showed how he planted the young trees in pot-holes where the soil was richer and she saw that after all there was nothing haphazard about the planting ; it had the symmetry of necessity . |
| 29 | Much would depend on Dulles 's mission and how he handled the thorny matters confronting him . |
| 30 | Twice he won the Old Boys race at King 's College school . |