Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took it , and after turning restlessly for some time , he eventually fell into a deep , heavy sleep . |
| 2 | This might throw light on his uncomplimentary nickname too , and on how , as the charter S 933 of 1014 reveals , " the attacks and plunderings of the evil Danes " gave him possession of a Dorset estate of the church of Sherborne , which he eventually sold for a great price in gold and silver to a friend of the monks , who returned it to them . |
| 3 | His choice had more than its share of steps and when he eventually arrived on a pleasant terrace overlooking the harbour , a pounding in his chest reminded him once more that he was middle-aged . |
| 4 | Midst all this , Atherton , who had fought desperately hard for almost 4½ hours , made an allowable mistake when he wearily felt for a rare straightish and wider ball from Waqar . |
| 5 | He rarely went for a tightframed shot , but instead honed in on whatever it was the subject had and made them give him more . |
| 6 | Isambard had halted and turned in the passage , frowning a little , in two minds whether to go back to him , but in the end he did not ; he merely waited for a little while , listening until the torrent of defiance had grown strangely shaken and softened with moments of entreaty . |
| 7 | I tried to stare my dislike into him but I must have been unsuccessful for he merely said with a primitive accent : ‘ Good in auto , yes ? ’ and grinned . |
| 8 | He merely retreated to a defensive , defiant position . |
| 9 | A typical example — and there are many of these — was when he patiently sat through a high level Air Ministry conference listening to the Mosquito being castigated for its poor night flying qualities ( because of the glare from the exhausts ) , and Boscombe Down recommended that it should never be flown at night , the chairman , as an afterthought , suggested Bennett contribute his views : " I wish someone hid told me about all these faults ' , he replied , " because I have been flying the Masse on OBOE night trials with excellent results " . |
| 10 | died as , whatever and they went to his eldest brother he said he had to burn all because he only lived in a small flat , he and his wife and two children and they 'd got no room for them to so he had to burn them . |
| 11 | He was puzzled for a moment , then he suddenly remembered with a slight feeling of shock . |
| 12 | From being a painfully shy , diffident recluse , he suddenly metamorphosed into a garrulous and sometimes painfully overbearing extrovert . |
| 13 | The exertions of the first five miles when he had thought the Dragoons might burst from behind every hedgerow or farmhouse had exhausted both the Major and his horse , so once he felt safe he sensibly slowed to a contemplative and restoring walk . |
| 14 | In October 1967 , when he was manager of Chelsea he was suspended by the English FA for 28 days for alleged misconduct during a friendly match in Bermuda , where he persistently swore at a black referee . |
| 15 | Morgan , hammered down 22 aces , including one to bring up his first match point after more than two hours , which he coolly converted with a bludgeoning service winner . |
| 16 | He had no strong views on fox hunting , he just went for a cheap day out . |
| 17 | The tower told him which way to taxi , and he finally stopped in a bright ring of lights inside a hangar whose doors closed the moment he shut down his engines . |
| 18 | His arrival was inopportune , and he soon withdrew to a Mediterranean island . |
| 19 | Not the work , which was back-breaking and tedious — he specialized in bolting on bumpers and screwing down steering wheels on trucks — but the mostly Asian workforce whose respect and confidence he soon won as a shop-floor activist . |
| 20 | He normally operated within a functioning framework of state power and administration which was not his own , at least outside the actual buildings he occupied ( ‘ my home is my castle ’ ) . |
| 21 | Housekeeper Anne Jackson told how Mr Elton had turned the sitting room of his £750,000 London flat into an office as he desperately hunted for a new job . |
| 22 | Enkidu now dreamt that they had offended the gods so deeply that one of them must die , and he promptly declined into a fatal illness . |
| 23 | Smiling , she wondered whether he ever moved at a normal pace . |
| 24 | He always felt better there , and he still felt like a good wash ; he needed to get rid of all this sweat and clamminess , wash all the dust and the lead off his face and hands . |
| 25 | Six months after his leg had been broken , he still walked with a perceptible limp , and this morning he looked harassed . |
| 26 | Well , anybody could see that the stupid bu er the way they 've he was made up to look like a forty year old and he still looked like a twenty year old ! |
| 27 | He still looked like a romantic lead . |
| 28 | One and a half hours later , as he still sat on a high stool at the bar , he looked down and saw the fingers of a beautifully manicured hand against his left arm , and felt the ghost of a touch of the softest breast against his shoulder . |
| 29 | This year he would n't even have the fallback option of his sister and her family , something that he always approached with a grim sense of duty and then often wound up thinking , at the end of the day , that perhaps it had n't been so bad after all . |
| 30 | He always stayed at a high-class hotel on trips abroad . |