Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said it had petered out because Eliot did not want him to go any further and did not have a plan to use the information already gathered . |
| 2 | Nick was hitting the ball too low , and David told him to swing under more and finish higher . |
| 3 | If the Opposition spokesman , the hon. Member for Dunfermline , East ( Mr. Brown ) , has the guts and really cares about Ravenscraig , will my hon. Friend ask him to stand up now and commit a future Labour Government to keeping Ravenscraig open ? |
| 4 | It 's for him to come down here and settle his debts , like everybody else in the valley . |
| 5 | Did you honestly expect me to let him go out there and die alone ? |
| 6 | Everything became bitingly clear to me as soon as I saw him turn round sharply and stare at me . |
| 7 | He goes so far as to claim that this form of control is now ‘ characteristic of the majority of enterprises in the USA and Britain ’ , thereby denying the predominance of the management control form . |
| 8 | I would wager that he goes so far as to say that I broke down in his room , stuttering out the words of my so-called confession between chokes and tears , unable to speak properly . |
| 9 | His opinions , he knows , are not shared by fellow portrait painters — he goes so far as to describe ‘ the rest ’ as producing ‘ old hat , boring , herd-of-sheep painting ’ , too preoccupied with imbuing a portrait with the sitter 's character . |
| 10 | Blondel in his study Political Parties : A Genuine Case for Discontent ? claims that " in the great majority of cases programmes are unclear , often limited in scope , and not closely connected to the goals which the party proclaims " and he goes so far as to assert that " on balance parties do not really have programmes " . |
| 11 | He got up again and padded across to Abigail 's room . |
| 12 | He got up again and went back to the oven . |
| 13 | Asik was hungary and tired , his knees were sore and he wanted to go to sleep but he got up slowly and started down the road . |
| 14 | He got up suddenly and placed a pile of clothes on the end of the bed . |
| 15 | He got up abruptly and walked impatiently about the room . |
| 16 | Yes , when we came out here I 'll never forget Mark , not even saying thank you , not , not even for raising the money I mean I would n't expect that from the parishioners , that 's what we should be trying to do , but even for the food and that , till erm Kitty and and the way he got up then and said it , most ungraciously |
| 17 | In Nice he got up early and went to Survage 's room and painted until midday , then took a swig of alcohol , made a face and returned to the canvas . |
| 18 | He got as far as lifting his head and getting one shoulder off the seat , but then collapsed back onto the leather , and let his eyes close . |
| 19 | He straightened up slowly and tugged cautiously on his end of the rope . |
| 20 | It is not surprising that new fossil species are discovered daily , and indeed the amateur collector has a good chance of finding a new species of fossil , if he looks hard enough and learns to recognize what he has found . |
| 21 | He stands up carefully and reaches out both hands . |
| 22 | On the first morning of their honeymoon , he wakes up early and looks at the lady , still sleeping on the pillow beside him . |
| 23 | He came forward warily and took the coin she offered and then he went off to one of the stables to fetch the horse and cart . |
| 24 | Lech Walesa was probably more popular when he was a freedom-fighter in Poland than when he came here recently and complained about the low level of enthusiasm for investing in his country.Today the only country to spend more than 1 per cent of its output on aid is Norway , with Holland and Denmark close behind . |
| 25 | He came back here and started the portrait . |
| 26 | He came out quickly and closed the secret door . |
| 27 | He drove off slowly and stopped at the lights . |
| 28 | He turned around again and grinned weakly at Druellae . |
| 29 | Henry Erskine once remarked of a Scottish judge and freeholder that ‘ he was first my enemy , when I came into power he was my great friend , when I went out he turned cool again & left off cultivating me , in that state we now remain , but I make no doubts were I in again , I should have him back again' . |
| 30 | He turned round again and propped himself up in the bed . |