Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On 2 December 1793 , having adopted the alias of Silas Tomkyn Comberbache , he secretly enlisted in the 15th Light Dragoons . |
| 2 | Indeed , it was the man at the opposite end of the park , Sieb Dykstra , who had the busier afternoon as he produced three crucial saves , the middle one — he was backpedalling as he acrobatically tipped over a superb Pat McGinlay shot — being the pick of the bunch . |
| 3 | He took it , and after turning restlessly for some time , he eventually fell into a deep , heavy sleep . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His coaching duties with the Scotland sevens squad concluded for the day , he duly appeared for the second half of the semi-final against the relatively fresh-faced youths of White Hart Marauders — inspired by England internationalists , Dewi Morris and Jeremy Guscott , and B caps , Damian Hopley and Justyn Cassell . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | In his book , Saturdays were for racing , betting and boozing — nothing else and he rarely strayed beyond the local corner pub . |
| 9 | He rarely went for a tightframed shot , but instead honed in on whatever it was the subject had and made them give him more . |
| 10 | He had said he had n't seen her in the shop , so he must have called in on occasions when Ann would be in the sweet shop and Arthur Peeble in the tobacconist 's or her father was there taking Peeble 's place ; he rarely served in the sweet shop . |
| 11 | He rarely survived to the final reel , because the notion of Van Cleef nobly agreeing to a duel in a deserted street was ridiculous . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He merely retreated to a defensive , defiant position . |
| 15 | He merely sat on the only chair in my room , shook his head and told me to sleep , and that it would be best if we shared the same chamber that night . |
| 16 | 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 " . |
| 17 | ‘ A concession he obviously exercised to the full , ’ she contented herself with murmuring instead , her eyes dancing with amusement as she enjoyed his discomfort , a feeling of relief pervading her that she was about to locate Suzie at last . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Whereas if he only waited till the seven years were up , all the given property would be his without any tax . |
| 20 | He was glad because — well , not having kids before , he only thought about the nice side of being a dad , he did n't think about the bad side . |
| 21 | But sometimes he only thought of the next performance . |
| 22 | The truth is that he only races as a personal challenge , or for the pure enjoyment of running . |
| 23 | He only comes to the odd party . |
| 24 | He only entered for the Foreign Office and the block plan , with a total of ten drawings , and was awarded one of the fifth prizes for his Foreign Office design . |
| 25 | He literally travelled from the Arctic to the Amazon in the course of one year , as well as attending his patients in downtown Toronto . |
| 26 | He was puzzled for a moment , then he suddenly remembered with a slight feeling of shock . |
| 27 | From being a painfully shy , diffident recluse , he suddenly metamorphosed into a garrulous and sometimes painfully overbearing extrovert . |
| 28 | What told most against Pétain , however , was that while Joffre , Foch and de Castelnau all swam vigorously with the current , he alone stood against the prevailing tide of the de Grandmaison movement . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |