Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly he became aware of an eerie feeling , as though he was being watched . |
| 2 | It was such a beautiful day and suddenly he became aware of a surge of relief not to be in London . |
| 3 | ‘ At Kelso … ’ the fellow slurred , then suddenly he went rigid , chest out , face forward , and I watched fascinated as the blood gurgled out of his mouth like water from an overflowing sewer : his eyes rolled in their sockets , his tongue came out as if he wished to talk , then he collapsed , choking on his own blood , on to the shit-strewn cobbles . |
| 4 | Suddenly he looked tired , and there were deep furrows in his brow as his eyes scanned her for an instant . |
| 5 | Suddenly he looked awkward , she saw his shoulders tense and his head duck slightly as they neared the french windows . |
| 6 | Suddenly he looked anxious . |
| 7 | Suddenly he looked remote , and there was an aching sadness about him . |
| 8 | Suddenly he felt cold and afraid . |
| 9 | ‘ My father had arrived in Italy to collect the money he had inherited , when suddenly he fell ill . |
| 10 | Suddenly he becomes involved with someone whose father was an active anti-Soviet right up till his death . |
| 11 | Suddenly he broke free from her grasp . |
| 12 | How firmly he clung to doctrine , and much he feared certain dangers … |
| 13 | Before long he became part-time Bursar , and on his retirement from teaching in the late 1950s he had taken on the post full-time . |
| 14 | But she wanted to experience again that lovely swooning feeling only he seemed able to invoke . |
| 15 | Just another wench , he told himself angrily , but deep down he knew different . |
| 16 | As the flames died down he felt cold air on his face . |
| 17 | He looked worried — or perhaps he looked thwarted . |
| 18 | Perhaps he thought powerful attacks on her might produce the result he longed for . |
| 19 | Perhaps he thought British Council employees who received personal calls at work were instantly dismissed . |
| 20 | Perhaps he got tired always getting his knees black on the way home from the pub ! |
| 21 | Perhaps he has important friends . |
| 22 | It was all he did , these days ; signing chits was all he seemed good for . |
| 23 | So he gets disciplined or yelled at or fired . |
| 24 | So he spent long days and evenings at Meadowbanks , working ( when he had done a stint of transcription ) on the manuscript which was destined to be the Walter Machin volume in the Payne 's Great Authors series of monographs . |
| 25 | So he stays dry most of the time now . |
| 26 | So he felt secure as he sat looking over the rolling lawns of Bloomwater . |
| 27 | Pitt-Rivers was well aware that excavation destroys evidence as it uncovers it , and so he kept meticulous records . |
| 28 | Now , being a shepherd , he was accustomed to doze at noontime , and so he fell asleep , and his hand relaxed on the rein . |
| 29 | So he fell silent , and in his speechlessness , found himself associated with the women who were , as expected , attending to , not participating in , the discussion . |
| 30 | So he made sure she failed on all counts . |