Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [adv] [conj] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A thud of chopping — movement between the tree trunks — a labourer was coming towards him , one of the consignment of convicts he had ordered through a merchant in Bideford , he had his machete in his hand , he was not menacing , he held out his spare hand in a strange appeal , lifting his face , which was crossed by deep scars , wounds across his eyes had puckered them right in so that he moved like a blind sleeper , closer and closer — Sir John woke up sweating , surprised to find himself alone , and then remembered : he had been drinking with his cousin Alexander Menzies of Bolfracks , the last bottle must have sent him under . |
| 2 | ‘ What a lot of questions , ’ he said coldly , and put her out of his path rather less gently than he intended . |
| 3 | He would n't tell me what was going on down there because he did n't want to worry me as far as the safety conditions at that particular mine . |
| 4 | " Amabel , there 'll be nobody in Frizingley to touch you , " said John-William Dallam , sitting down rather heavily since he had run upstairs a little too quickly at her call and did not want her to see how easily , these days , he could lose his breath . |
| 5 | It 'll be all right soon as he gets it . ’ |
| 6 | He goes all right then and he tells him . |
| 7 | His dissenting and mercantile interests came together most poignantly when he attacked the East India Company under the leadership of the court-connected Sir Josiah Child [ q.v . ] . |
| 8 | So much so that he spent fully eight years in a succession of colleges before throwing himself on the tender mercies of the world . |
| 9 | Her brother Jonna bore a startling likeness to their father ; so much so that he looked like a younger version . |
| 10 | An oil and gas businessman , down from New York , he was one of Littledale 's ‘ bloody types ’ ; so much so that he had celebrated his donation for weapons , to the dismay of Channell 's PR lady , by going to the Hay Adams and ordering steak tartare . |
| 11 | It seems that during the 18th century in the beautiful city of Cambridge , the leading livery stable was owned and operated by one Charles Hobson who had made a small fortune in renting cabs and carriages to the gentry , so much so that he had acquired that lovely house and property known as Anglesey Abbey for his country residence . |
| 12 | Lewis was markedly less exclusive and less austere ; but he had once borrowed a copy of Eliot 's verse in 1926 from John Betjeman , then an unsatisfactory Oxford pupil , and it had enraged him — so much so that he had organised a cabal to write spoof verse in the Eliot manner to introduce into his quarterly Criterion . |
| 13 | There , too , he was overwhelmed by what he saw ; so much so that he went back with Hanns for a hectic fortnight at the end of September . |
| 14 | One of the somewhat older guy , he can orchestrate it so much so that he gets his gold out of it . |
| 15 | After Colonel Charles Maynard died , his widow remarried to the Earl of Rosslyn and found herself ‘ not on cordial terms ’ with her ex-father-in-law : so much so that he cut her out of his will , leaving all the family property to his granddaughter Frances , and so much embittering the family that Frances 's mother ‘ feared the abduction of myself and my baby sister . ’ |
| 16 | Not all the crew was impressed with the wild beauty however , although Dave Scadding , my number one really fell in love with Scotland , so much so that he applied for a transfer to Kirkwall on our return to Southampton . |
| 17 | He lived the part of a blind man so much so that he tripped and fell after leaving the set and damaged the cornea of his eye because he had trained himself not to blink ! |
| 18 | Contact was made with his son , Ian , who still runs the same garage and he was very interested in the ideas put forward , so much so that he agreed to be the main sponsor for the project . |
| 19 | Widmark had recently joined John Ford 's repertory company and so Wayne , who was producing and directing as well as starring as Davy Crockett , was delighted when Widmark accepted the role of Jim Dowie — so much so that he took an ad in the Hollywood Reporter reading ‘ Welcome aboard , Dick . ’ |
| 20 | Louise was on a normal double decker bus with over thirty of her schoolfriends when the driver appeared to be angered by their continually ringing the bell ; so much so that he took them on a six mile detour . |
| 21 | Worried , she fussed around him , so much so that he gripped her hand . |
| 22 | It falls foul of one of the cardinal principles of the law of trusts : the principle of benefit , which states that a person can be validly appointed a trustee only so far as he has received benefits intended by the settlor under the settlor 's will . |
| 23 | " She 'll never be raised again , " and Maurice suggested that Willis would be much better off if he did n't have to look at the wreck of Dreadnought at every low tide . |
| 24 | A detective said : ‘ Some of the murders he says he committed so long ago that he has difficulty in remembering where the bodies are buried . |
| 25 | It seemed to go down all right so he cleared his throat . |
| 26 | This season Fergus — Gus to his friends — Aherne has warmed the bench much more assiduously than he has passed the ball from the base of the scrum . |
| 27 | It had been great fun , much more so than he had anticipated . |
| 28 | He worked off some of the anger by berating Tom Hanks for not having Vulcan ready more quickly when he ordered that the horse be prepared for a ride . |
| 29 | The very mention of her name awoke old pains ; it was only much later on that he began to wonder how Thomas knew about Alice atte Bowe . |
| 30 | But he had her between a rock and a hard place , and the look in his eyes told her only too clearly that he knew it . |