Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some time later , as she lay quietly enfolded in his arms , she felt him gently brushing the damp hair from her forehead . |
| 2 | Haldane 's personal convictions and family connections caused him quickly to assume a prominent role on the more extreme wing of Anglican Evangelicalism . |
| 3 | His pioneering interest in Tiepolo led him also to gather a large collection of his drawings , which filled twelve albums . |
| 4 | John Coffin walked away , marvelling at the strangeness of life which made him now mourn a petty criminal whom he had not liked and whom no one had appeared to love , and who might , just possibly , have also poisoned three people . |
| 5 | People who know him well say the Kuwaiti affair has affected him deeply , chipping away at his pro-western instincts , and instilling in him a deep pessimism about the future of the region . |
| 6 | And yet about him there hung the indefinable air of ugliness . |
| 7 | Haavikko closed the door behind him then gave a small shudder , staring at the tiny slip of plastic in his hand . |
| 8 | Similarly , it is not possible for him either to give a hard-and-fast definition of Truth . |
| 9 | There were times , though , when he rather hoped a working-class bloke would take a shine to his wife and beat the hell out of her . |
| 10 | His Lordship reached the conclusion that no evidence was not a jurisdictional defect because he expressly adopted the limited concept of review adumbrated above . |
| 11 | This prompted an unusually animated argument between counsel and the judge , who was clearly outraged at what he expressly called the crass incompetence of the Crown Prosecution Service in serving and making part of the prosecution case a witness they knew would support the defendant and then seeking to discontinue when predictably he did just that . |
| 12 | In the ten Ives songs which he provides as fill-up he deftly avoids the obvious pitfalls in writing which is only parodistic in part , whether in the overtly sentimental fragments or the rousing songs like The Circus Band and the patriotic First World War song , He is there ! . |
| 13 | As Merrill shook her head he deftly folded the typed sheets , replaced them in the envelope and handed it to her . |
| 14 | He had taken his glasses off now and pulled his T-shirt up over his head , revealing that manly torso of perfect proportions , over which he deftly fastened the frilled silk shirt , and tucked it into his jeans . |
| 15 | But he had provided a double failsafe mechanism for himself in case he accidently pressed the wrong key while accessing the code . |
| 16 | But lucky Craig Harris escaped with bruises and minor burns after being thrown into the air as he accidently touched a live wire attached to overhead power cables . |
| 17 | he vigorously used an ancient notion of personal worth as resting in an original standard substance , and variation as introduced by society . |
| 18 | He eventually formed a religious group , the Royal Church of Nagriamel , before declaring a provisional government on Espiritu Santo on May 29 , 1980 , the eve of Vanuatu 's independence . |
| 19 | When he eventually became an overnight star after fourteen years of hard labour in Hollywood , the seekers of his past came knocking on the doors of his tutors and former friends . |
| 20 | On his father 's death in 1621 he was adopted by his uncle John Browne , a merchant tailor , from whom he eventually inherited a substantial fortune . |
| 21 | Although ‘ Milton and Wordsworth exalted me ’ , he eventually buys a complete Byron for two shillings and reads Childe Harold . |
| 22 | A publican or tobacconist who , in good faith , sells his goods to a 15-year-old who looks 20 has committed a crime , unless he successfully employs the permitted defence that he sold the goods innocently . |
| 23 | Since becoming head of the Kimbell in 1980 , he single-handedly built the sleepy Fort Worth museum into one of the most select collections in the country , purchasing a stellar array of old masters , including masterpieces by Caravaggio , Pietro da Cortona , Domenichino , Poussin and Georges de la Tour that would have significantly complemented or filled gaps at the National Gallery . |
| 24 | Meanwhile in 1772 the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew engaged its first professional plant collector , Francis Masson , and packed him off to South Africa from where he duly introduced a great number of exotic plants , at least two of which , Zantedeschia erathiopica and Amaryllis belladonna , are still grown in Trust gardens in warmer areas to this day . |
| 25 | One way of characterizing Althusser 's intervention would be Martin Jay 's observation that he effectively destroyed the Lukácsian notion of totality . |
| 26 | If the innocent party purports to " accept " such performance , he effectively accepts a new contract . |
| 27 | He discreetly steers the old Alps plan through , and fosters ambitious projects to stud shipping routes with underwater rocks , and the atmosphere with unpredictable patterns of clear air turbulence . |
| 28 | " Thank you , " I said confidently , and glared at the man when he discreetly placed a huge jug of iced water at my elbow . |
| 29 | In so doing , he wholeheartedly committed the English nation to the military struggle against Catholic France and inaugurated an important new phase in the international relations of both state and church . |
| 30 | If this is still the case next May he apparently wins a Swiss watch from The Sun in honour of the acheivement ! |