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 | It 'll be all right soon as he gets it . ’ |
| 4 | He goes all right then and he tells him . |
| 5 | 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 . ] . |
| 6 | So much so that he spent fully eight years in a succession of colleges before throwing himself on the tender mercies of the world . |
| 7 | Her brother Jonna bore a startling likeness to their father ; so much so that he looked like a younger version . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | One of the somewhat older guy , he can orchestrate it so much so that he gets his gold out of it . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 ! |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . ’ |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Worried , she fussed around him , so much so that he gripped her hand . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | " 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | It had been great fun , much more so than he had anticipated . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He knew only too well that he had something that Amaranth wanted very badly indeed access to the Arden candidate 's selection committee . |
| 29 | He guessed she did n't care all that much whether he handed it over or not . |
| 30 | Usual stuff — you arrange that on such-and-such a day you 'll turn up with so many people and so much luggage and he 'll transport you to the next place and when you turn up he pretends things have changed and you did n't say fifty but fifteen and anyway the price has gone up and so on and so bloody on until he gets the backhander he wants . |