Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv prt] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got up as quickly as the tight fit of the table in the breakfast nook would allow . |
| 2 | Dave always shaves unless he got up late like so he started whingeing at me and Ann because we got our jeans on . |
| 3 | He walked out as far as Scheveningen to draw the fisherwomen there . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He switched off almost sadly as Hess disappeared into the cockpit clumsily , too big in the leg for such acrobatics . |
| 6 | He looked up again just as Harriet spoke . |
| 7 | 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 … |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |