Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] he [verb] " in BNC.

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1 But his clubs blazed most effectively when he put Nicklaus and Ballesteros into second place at Royal Birkdale .
2 Whatever one 's opinion , he has missed remarkably little considering he has had to cope with such an endless barrage of fast bowling .
3 His dissenting and mercantile interests came together most poignantly when he attacked the East India Company under the leadership of the court-connected Sir Josiah Child [ q.v . ] .
4 He moved on slowly until he reached one of the roads into the city .
5 Presently Wendy wrote a note for Ken suggesting he came on down when he 'd had breakfast , walked fifteen minutes to the hospital and admitted herself .
6 It was rather indifferently that he described to her his walk , his find , his leading of the police to the spot .
7 He was indeed kind , exceptionally so ; but he never indulged in insincerity for the sake of pleasing , and he could be downright enough when he deemed it necessary .
8 Ron was virtually dead physiologically before he achieved a consistent recognition of the severity of his state .
9 By canne , which could mean ‘ cane ’ in the English senses of a hollow reed or a light walking-stick , Antoine implies something rather long unless he uses the word wholly jokingly .
10 He got up and came to squat next to her , flipping through the pages rather impatiently until he stopped suddenly .
11 Lucy Lane had been working in his team for three years but he felt that he knew her only a little better than he had done after her first month .
12 ‘ I know Devlin a little better than he imagines and I was not at all fooled about this easy assignment of yours . ’
13 He understood it a little better when he saw what a state the survivors were in .
14 He jumped into the shower and felt a little better when he got out a few seconds later .
15 In fact , rather better than he 'd seemed the last time I 'd seen him .
16 He embalmed a child in 1717 so skilfully that he deceived Peter the Great , who thought the infant was alive yet in a state of normal repose .
17 The converter had worked so effectively that he suffered only mild carbon monoxide poisoning .
18 It seemed to go down all right so he cleared his throat .
19 It 's all right but he prefers Cabanaconda .
20 But he does , he lives in the churchyard , and he has done on and off , as you say , for a few years , and he 's been a bit of a most of the time he 's perfectly all right because he keeps himself to himself .
21 Ember shoved the wheeled ramp sideways but it was all right because he 'd told her to hang on and she had .
22 ‘ He 'll be all right if he does n't start listening to the wrong people . ’
23 After it had been moved a short distance away , the pilot was persuaded that the situation was all right and he accepted this , rather than face being unpopular for causing further delay .
24 If at times Hope needed women to a point of desperate madness , so , at other times , he ached for wealth so badly that he heard his inner voice crooning for it , like the ululation of a gin-addicted street beggar , the sound suddenly there but as if never absent , an ancient and ineradicable longing .
25 The Collector 's hands trembled so badly that he had to rest the telescope on the shattered window sill .
26 But he was shaking so badly that he had to sit down and have a rest .
27 I think she undoubtedly added to the intrigue erm and difficulties of her court , erm one example , she was always getting people that she approved of , getting them plum jobs , and one example was one of the governors of Oxford , the most unpopular , one Sir Arthur Aston , who was so unpopular that he got attacked on the street , and then had to have a body guard paid for the city council , and then was curvetting on his horse in front of some ladies , and fell off and broke his leg so badly that he had to have it amputated , so from then on he had a wooden leg , erm that meant he had to stop being governor , and later on in the war , a countryman was coming into Oxford , and asked the sentinel ‘ who was governor still ’ , and by that time a friend of prince Rupert 's Sir William Leg was governor , and the answer was ‘ one Leg ’ , and the countryman 's reply was ‘ pox on him , is he governor still ? ’ .
28 He coughed so badly that he found his way to the bathroom and took some Liquafruta cough syrup .
29 Sir Henry Bessemer suffered so badly that he designed an anti-seasick steamer whose saloon was supposed to stay on an even keel even if the ship rolled .
30 She was about to put the binoculars down ashamedly when he lifted his eyes from the paper .
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