Example sentences of "[adv] [adj] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So Ben said , Oh , I 'm terribly sorry he said , there was nobody else on the road and I I I must admit I did n't notice whether I had . |
| 2 | He did feed them at one time , but they became so rampant he had to stop . |
| 3 | Simon , whose medal in the individual event was Britain 's first for 84 years , is now so hard-up he has to rely on drinks from mates and his girlfriend . |
| 4 | He was so tall he had to incline his head to avoid hitting the beams , and his nearness made her tremble . |
| 5 | ‘ So long as you do n't gossip with him , no , ’ he said flatly , and turned on his heel to stride coolly out on to the terrace again , so tall he had to dodge the metal chimes that hung over the french windows . |
| 6 | Before dinner , John , who was so laid-back he made the trees seem neurotic , offered us a yoga lesson . |
| 7 | Kenrick Wynne-Jones was altogether less turbulent He understood the art of getting along with politicians , and found a power base for himself through friendship with the Labour leaders of the day from the North , such as Ted short and Lord Glenamara . |
| 8 | Will was so grateful he said he would base one of the characters of that drama on me . |
| 9 | He was so pissed he did n't notice . |
| 10 | He agreed the food was so awful he asked us if we would n't mind hiding some of his . ’ |
| 11 | He told his literary friends that their stories and poems were so awful he did n't know what to say about them or how to get through the scheduled hour . |
| 12 | So he said oh I 'm ever so sorry he said he 's gone out . |
| 13 | and he just said oh I 'm so sorry he said I would n't have come if I had known , but there was a massive wreath in the garden where that girl was knocked over |
| 14 | As they reached St Martin-in-the-Fields church the cheering was so loud he thought that they had arrived at St Paul 's and prepared to get out of the carriage . |
| 15 | He smelt their fetid breath and tried to control the shuddering of his body , fighting against the nauseous panic which curdled his stomach and made his legs so weak he longed to sit down . |
| 16 | I thought I heard him bring the cows in earlier but he 's grown so deaf he did n't hear when I called him . |
| 17 | And er he went round and I do n't know I never heard him playing the fiddle , but they said he was very good at fiddling , but he was a grand one for old stories , , and er he was just doing farms here and there so Then eventually he turned so old he 'd only one dog and then er he died down at the D At a place called the Doonie And this man D Duncan , he had just an er one of the er I think one of the tramps from Blair Gowrie was working to him and he came up and told my father and my father went down to see about him , you see him being in the parish council . |
| 18 | Were there so few he felt able to trust ? |
| 19 | ‘ But he 's so brave he has made a wonderful comeback . |
| 20 | His spirits were so high he did n't detect the chill of fear in Lucy . |
| 21 | He 's so afraid he thought he was missing something look . |
| 22 | It was rumoured that as the monarch 's virility grew less reliable he developed a habit of taking substantial quantities of aphrodisiacs . |
| 23 | The man had been so embarrassed he had been pretending to study the graffiti on the cell walls . |
| 24 | Once Keith left it at the home of some guy he 'd had a one night stand with , and when he went back to get it he was so embarrassed he had sex with the guy again , which was a mistake for both of them . |
| 25 | He got so embarrassed he turned round and scuttled out . |
| 26 | Bernard 's character , quite the reverse of hers , was so magnetic he made life exciting every day . ’ |
| 27 | But many of these species ( pictured in the book like fugitives from a mediaeval bestiary ) were so outlandish he doubted their very existence . |
| 28 | Upon reaching retirement age Len found that he missed the job so much he came back on a part-time basis . |
| 29 | There was so much he had learnt , so many facts , so many happenings . |
| 30 | ‘ What terrified Sir Ralph so much he had to move from here to that bleak prison cell ? ’ |