Example sentences of "[coord] he [verb] [adv] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , both Stirling 's legs were temporarily paralysed and he suffered quite a severe back injury which was to keep him immobilized for the best part of two months . |
| 2 | He listened , too , and for a moment the noises from the next room ceased , and he heard only a great and total silence , a silence that extended beyond the city , beyond the planet , a silence as empty and bleak and beautiful as space , as the universe itself ; the endless harmonious silence of the spheres . |
| 3 | After a short while he found that the gypsies were taking their horses to him to be shod ; and he had quite a busy time shoeing gypsy horses . |
| 4 | After Edward II 's overthrow in 1326 he was restored and he received back a substantial portion of his estates . |
| 5 | If he was right , and he sent up a silent prayer that he was , it could be he had stumbled on Angel One 's secret escape route . |
| 6 | I rushed to see a physiotherapist , John Harris , and he made up a little pad around it with a hole in the middle so that I would n't put any pressure on it . |
| 7 | The phone rang , and he reached out a long arm and hooked it up . |
| 8 | ‘ Sorry , ’ she said , feeling him watching her and he fought back a violent physical impulse to give her a cuddle and take her away from all this . |
| 9 | And he pushed open a small wooden door . |
| 10 | He was utterly amiable and without vice and he gave off a constant aura not merely of noxious vapours but of bonhomie . |
| 11 | The shaking of the head became a violent fit of denial , and he let out a strange sob , knowing back his head as he did so . |
| 12 | And he built up a whole business just by picking famous names and saying , look I think your design is really outdated and it 's not doing your image any good . |
| 13 | When he put his nail to the edge , it sprang open like a locket and he drew out a concertina-folded strip of paper . |
| 14 | The ability to read and write was confined to churchmen ( this was common throughout the whole of northern Europe ) , not even William or his Norman Barons were able to read , so William appointed Lanfranc as Archbishop of Canterbury and he set up a diocesan pattern which endured and encouraged the growth of ecclesiastical courts of law and a succession of ‘ clerks ’ who became the forerunners of the civil servants . |
| 15 | Erm number one strength Alan erm although he does n't see to eye T eye eye to eye with er a lot of the city institutions and a lot of the shareholders erm he he does know his business erm and he has quite a strong character , very forceful and . |
| 16 | His knowledge of English furniture was legendary , but he had too a sharp eye for pictures . |
| 17 | Turner did the grand tour , certainly ; he learnt a lot in Italy , but he learnt equally a great deal from English artists and from Dutch artists and in so far as he used the grand tour , and used what Rome and other countries had to offer , that 's what every artist did , every European artist , not just the English . |
| 18 | David Damiani said nothing for several seconds after finishing his narrative but he opened up a battered suitcase and produced from it his old pale brown British Palestine passport and opened the document on page six . |