Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We tried to pull the leg up so that he would n't put so much weight on it , but then he only found it even harder to walk straight . |
| 2 | He suddenly remembered her carefully veiled amusement when he had mentioned the tinkers . |
| 3 | Touching , nibbling , caressing every part of her body , making it his , he soon had her mindlessly receptive , totally forgetting any opposition . |
| 4 | Certainly Jesus refined it and filled out its theology , but he still accepted it as God-breathed rather than the confused and ill-considered thoughts of ignorant men . |
| 5 | He still outnumbered them perhaps five to one . |
| 6 | Not only did he order the apple pie and cream , but he also poured her yet another glass of wine — somehow she seemed to have drunk the other already ! |
| 7 | He did n't love her as Lowell loved her , but he probably loved her as much as he was capable of loving anyone . |
| 8 | He reportedly found it very hard and was left hanging from his axes as both crampon placements broke loose nearing the top . |
| 9 | The Sex Pistols ( who once touched on a similar subject ) also made sense , once , but although Johnny Rotten was a wry and clever ambassador for the feeling of the youth , he equally made it perfectly easy for the tabloids to pin him with yobbishness . |
| 10 | This conspicuous absence of Dryden , though it helps to show that Pound needed no intermediary in his traffic with Virgil , also exposes a dispiriting limitation to Pound 's taste , so catholic as he meant it to be : he never stretched his originally late-Victorian conditioning so far as to appreciate the masters of the English heroic couplet . |
| 11 | As a consequence of which well we went to Egypt and the Sudan this business , we came back and er the b the the foreman 's brother he ne he never liked me ever this forema when I were a kid you know , he never liked me at all , I never got on with him and and er mind you there 's a long story about that but it 's a silly little thing that er that I really upset him with . |