Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He recovered far more quickly than she would have thought possible for such a big man , but the drag on her arm nearly pulled it out of its socket . |
| 2 | He got up as quickly as the tight fit of the table in the breakfast nook would allow . |
| 3 | Dave always shaves unless he got up late like so he started whingeing at me and Ann because we got our jeans on . |
| 4 | It was this working landscape which he recognised far more immediately than the picturesque cataracts , the prescribed ‘ stations ’ for the Claude glass , the thrills of nature . |
| 5 | He walked out as far as Scheveningen to draw the fisherwomen there . |
| 6 | Well , we thought he 'd gone out , but apparently he must have got to the door just as the bomb landed , and the blast blew the door backwards , er the door inwards , knocked me dad backwards and at the back of him we had a cellar , but it went through this , the cellar door and although it turned round before it went down the cellar , he finished up down there because we did n't know this til after a while that me brother wou did n't offer to go out , so I went out think , to find where me dad was you see . |
| 7 | He switched off almost sadly as Hess disappeared into the cockpit clumsily , too big in the leg for such acrobatics . |
| 8 | He knew only too well where that would lead . |
| 9 | He went no further either because of ideological conservatism , or because of lack of courage of his convictions . |
| 10 | Holding his body rigid , Yanto used the weight of his body to fall forward He fell forward very slowly until his hands came in contact with the sand by which time the suction on his feet had been broken . |
| 11 | He felt just as strongly as he had the night before . |
| 12 | Oddly enough , it was an area about which he felt quite as strongly as the members of the monastic community . |
| 13 | He looked up again just as Harriet spoke . |
| 14 | He had n't much longer before he ceased to function . |
| 15 | Cameron slept instantly , and woke and dreamed and woke and dreamed for hours — the river , the cold shock of the water between his legs , the glimmer of light on the far shore , the current filling his mouth , he swam against it , it helped him , he struck out as smoothly as a seal , skimming effortlessly , he could power onwards forever , the water buoying him , his hand stroking it easily backwards without a splash … |
| 16 | He was capable of living with Annie 's moral disapproval : her physical presence , however , was too threatening and he left rather more smartly than he had intended . |
| 17 | He left home as early as possible , did well in his career and visited his parents as seldom as possible . |
| 18 | He set off again almost as soon as he had returned to Hobart to make up for lost time on an overland expedition to Launceston and George Town , 60 miles from Hobart on the North Coast of the island . |
| 19 | He backed away , and still they struck and lunged in his direction ; he backed away even more until he could barely see them in the gloom . |
| 20 | Good girl ! " he commended Lally as kindly as he would any keen bitch , and asked nothing further . |
| 21 | At this point he decided to turn back , for even now it would be eleven before he was home and it was seldom he stayed out as late as that . |