Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] he [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just two weeks before starting work at Rentokil Dick married his wife Pat , so really he had 50 years to celebrate ! |
| 2 | Now based at Oakhanger , Philip has built the business up so now he has three vans , all his own equipment , employs five full-time staff and regularly has to call in sub-contractors . |
| 3 | So then he bought another baler . |
| 4 | Perhaps he was moved by the recollection that the argument propounded by Anselm had its origin in his own comment on an intricate saying of St Paul about truth and justice being the same thing in different modes ; perhaps too he felt some remorse at his impatient dismissal of so many of the saints venerated at Canterbury , when so clever a man as Anselm could take Elphege seriously . |
| 5 | His Cromwellian sympathies were no doubt strengthened by the marriage of the protector 's younger daughter to the Earl of Warwick 's grandson early in 1658 , and not surprisingly he left public life altogether with the restoration of the Commonwealth in 1659 . |
| 6 | Just then he had another preoccupation , and he left the compilation and editing of the issue to Sebastian and Tina Jorgensen , and to the new arrival from Australia , Jim Anderson . |
| 7 | Shortly afterwards he said good night to his master and made his way home . |
| 8 | But more crucially he stresses social disorientation : |
| 9 | AN amorous bull stopped traffic yesterday when he seduced three cows , a Volvo and an Allegro on a busy road . |
| 10 | Once again he used that nickname . |
| 11 | More explicitly he sees psychodynamic theories as the orthodoxy against which others have railed , either from a positivist and empirical critique ( leading to the development of behavioural social work ) ; or a radical analysis ( based upon a rejection of the individualization of problems and the location of disadvantage at the societal level and the consequent development of radical social work ) . |
| 12 | Most controversially he announced sweeping cuts in commodity subsidies which he said were unavoidable as government subsidies on wheat and petrol had previously amounted to £S1,000 million and £S7,700 million respectively , which simply could not be sustained . |
| 13 | Though at first , Pip could not bear to touch him , later on he takes great care of him and grows to love him which is shown by their holding hands at the trial of Magwitch and his visits to him as he is awaiting execution . |
| 14 | He never admitted this to himself in so many words , which was probably why he had occasional attacks of breathlessness and a tendency to develop a rash behind his ears . |
| 15 | Right now he dreads big talk . |
| 16 | He was playing a Stratocaster and nobody else was , and he had that ‘ in-between ’ tone and everybody was trying to figure out how he got that sound . |
| 17 | I always attended their concerts to try and work out how he got this effect . |
| 18 | No I just , I just could n't work out how he averaged five marks . |
| 19 | Coleridge had struggled hard with Osorio , and even now he had little faith that it could succeed on stage . |
| 20 | While Miller seemed chiefly to glean knowledge on the cultivation of flowers and vegetables from Holland , he turned to Italy for information on fruit culture and here again he had many correspondents . |
| 21 | Here again he sees all sorts of factors dating from the distant past as limiting and distorting potentialities . |
| 22 | Then suddenly he heard another noise that was somehow more fearsome still . |
| 23 | Then quickly he put one leg over the body , gripping the shoulders between his thighs and the ram stood still , its head drooping sullenly . |
| 24 | No matter how carefully he sliced each shovelful in an arc out on the wind , there were certain unpredictable gusts that lifted the grains and blew them back towards the tractor so that by evening his clothes were filthy with lime , his face and hands as white as chalk , accentuating the inflamed red round his eyes . |
| 25 | Will he remember how often he spoke last year , and to what good effect , about welfare reform ? |
| 26 | The former seems to have written most of his Norman ducal history , the Gesta Normannorum Ducum , in the 1050s after Edward the Confessor had promised the English throne to Duke William in 1051 – 2 , and this is doubtless why he describes Anglo-Norman relations under Æthelred and Cnut , and comments on Edward 's exile in Normandy . |