Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] he [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | washed out he very quickly got tired , you remember in hospital , he quickly got tired and if he laid down he quickly seemed to get his energy back , he 'd come back and be |
| 2 | When at last he moved away he still combed through the letter as he walked . |
| 3 | John Paul II described how he personally scrutinised successive drafts — 10 in all — which were presented for his consideration . |
| 4 | When he came in he just stood there looking gawky and then at once , seeing him without a hat on , I knew who he was . |
| 5 | And when my grandfather came in he always had a pocketful of these tips , and he would give us all some sixpences and some threepennies . ’ |
| 6 | Now erm when Paul came in he unfortunately come in and clean up come in and clean up and they were put on their own rate which they should never have been . |
| 7 | As it came near he quickly lowered the camera and directed a wide-eyed stare , straight at the big cat . |
| 8 | I do n't know what was said at the relief office but when Dad came back he just threw the ration card on the table in disgust . |
| 9 | When Nigel came back he usually spent some time checking his pulse rate . |
| 10 | Yesterday , 33-year-old Steve Spence told how he still loved his wife . |
| 11 | They parked where he always did , hidden deep in the shadows . |
| 12 | As she turned away he gently caught the nape of her neck with his free hand . |
| 13 | He was suspicious of the local people , and when any of them showed up he always put things of value out of sight . |
| 14 | What happened then he never saw , it remained always a confusion and a blank to him , but certainly there was another cry , louder and more astonished than his , and a sudden sharp impact like a blow , and the clatter of the whip falling . |
| 15 | In the gloom of a London club called Blitz , the person who would define this new sensibility above all others , the club 's sometime cloakroom attendant , a young boy called George O'Dowd , caught sight of his reflection in the mirror , applied his make-up — as he would put it , ‘ to remove all the hideousness ’ — and plotted how he too might acquire the only worthwhile currency left : fame . |
| 16 | ‘ In the first half Frank showed why he still is the norwegian attacker who should reach the farthest on the field : He won every single duel in the air , always with at least one turk on the neck . |
| 17 | They hung on him loosely , like a tattered dress . |
| 18 | By now he was used to spending longer and longer periods alone , yet in that moment when she walked away he always experienced a brief sense of loss that made him want to rush after her and beg her not to go . |
| 19 | ‘ Just before he rang off he even wished me a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year . ’ |
| 20 | His attitudes are best illustrated by this typical passage from Thucydides ( iv.83 : 424 BC ; the details of the diplomacy are irrelevant ) : Perdikkas ' diplomacy was subtler than just pitting Athens against Sparta and conversely : before the great Peloponnesian War broke out he shrewdly persuaded the Greek cities near Olynthus to coalesce into a federation ; this was an act designed to weaken the greater confederacy of the Delian League , since Athens ' policy ( Thuc. iii . |
| 21 | No , she 's gone on a trip , Simon called round he just dropped mother off . |
| 22 | He was standing on top of one of the crush barriers by the look of it and when the goal went in he either jumped or the surge forward did the job for him and he defied gravity for a while . |
| 23 | As he grew up he bitterly accused his mother of having shown little interest in him . |
| 24 | Anne had been indignant but secretly glad that he would not go away until she understood how he really felt about her . |
| 25 | No one — not the Seven nor Hal Shepherd — knew how he really felt about the matter , only that he had refused to see Tolonen since that day ; that he had exiled him immediately and appointed a new General , Vittorio Nocenzi , in his place . |
| 26 | I think he knew when he truly found himself in front of a work of art . |
| 27 | Carrie had seen the accountant 's bill for the previous year 's work and she knew why he never complained . |
| 28 | This was the sight that Bill Brice saw when he smilingly turned round , holding the fresh bottle of sherry which he had been kneeling to get out from under the window-seat . |
| 29 | COCKNEY celebrity Danny Baker yesterday revealed how he nearly drove the chairman of his beloved Millwall to tears . |
| 30 | As he did so he frantically waved it into the side . |