Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lastly he had picked an immense , fifteen-barrelled pistol out of the pile rejected by the Collector . |
| 2 | Broomhead had been staring ahead scowling and suddenly he turned to face the old man . |
| 3 | ‘ He liked the song so much he wanted to have a long version of it , ’ claimed Moroder , ‘ and that 's when I did the 17-minute one . |
| 4 | But then he 'd , apparently he seemed to have an older brother with him |
| 5 | Apparently he had mistaken the small man in jeans for the window cleaner he had sent for . |
| 6 | Apparently he 'd called the previous evening and been surprised I was n't there . |
| 7 | Yeah Mark apparently he 's got the second biggest cock that this had ever seen . |
| 8 | He knew that basically he had enjoyed the careful battle of wits . |
| 9 | Before long he had invented a new science called Gastrotechnology , which he defined simply as the scientific explanation of accepted principles of cookery . |
| 10 | If he 'd had his hands on her for one minute , he could have given her something to remember him by ; if only he 'd spat a single obscenity into her ear before running off , it would have been something . |
| 11 | perhaps he had undone the knot and looked inside or perhaps he had done no more than lift it and feel its weight . |
| 12 | He had intended to head back to the funicolare station but perhaps he had taken a wrong turning somewhere in his hurry to get away from Maidstone 's apartment . |
| 13 | Perhaps he had found a new temporary partner by now . |
| 14 | Perhaps he had had a bad day at the garage and had not sold enough crummy second-hand cars . |
| 15 | Perhaps he had had the same thought , because as their eyes met something seemed to pass between them , some spark of longing they both recognised . |
| 16 | Perhaps he 'd had no real intention of stuffing her up her back passage . |
| 17 | Perhaps he 's got the wrong place . ’ |
| 18 | So he had adopted the feeble expedient of ringing the Frome household around teatime , and asking to speak to Pickerage . |
| 19 | And so he had acquired an old-fashioned classical education , with gaps where teachers had been made redundant or classroom chaos had reigned . |
| 20 | No , not so he had taken the right decision . |
| 21 | So he manages to dedicate an immense amount of time to people . |
| 22 | When he was nineteen , Reza Shah decided that the Crown Princes marriage was due and so he began trawling the Middle East for the most suitable wife — from a dynastic point of view . |
| 23 | So he determined to get the better of him not by means of his own great power but by means of a trick . |
| 24 | So he swooped to catch the falling child , drive away the wolf or restore the horse — all these miracles being depicted in small panels round the central figure of the Saint . |
| 25 | Nicholas Ferrar refused all these suggestions , having decided that as soon as he was free to do so he wished to lead a religious life . |
| 26 | A child grows up in a community in which people moan and cry when they are in pain ( as he does himself ) ; in which they also use expressions like ‘ I 'm in pain' and ‘ I 've got toothache ’ ; in which others react sympathetically to their linguistic , as to their non-linguistic , expressions of pain ; and so he comes to use the linguistic expression himself in the place of the natural expression . |
| 27 | So he has followed a dual approach , honouring the supply to the supermarkets while continuing to supply and expand the local market ; it is only in this way that the operation has been able to survive and continue to provide a quality product while supporting a number of local employees and their families . |
| 28 | So he decided to waste no more time , and thrust the trapdoor up and back with his shoulders . |
| 29 | So he 's got a technical problem . |
| 30 | So he 's got a hundred now . |