Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gently he pressed the two ends of the wallet 's rim towards each other . |
| 2 | Very gently he caught the long glittering strands and brushed them behind her ear , his fingers lingering coolly against her flesh just for a moment before he let them drop to his side . |
| 3 | Gently he helped the loose piece to fall clear . |
| 4 | Suddenly he took the visionary image of his own manhood into his arms , his ruffled hair against the stone curls , and burst into a storm of silent weeping . |
| 5 | Suddenly he had the strangest feeling . |
| 6 | Suddenly he realised the single glaring inconsistency in any line of argument which was designed to point to revenge or the settlement of a grudge as a motive for the attempt . |
| 7 | Suddenly he pushed the skinny man to the ground and started to kick him , but , as he did so , there came a roar and a rumbling from behind us . |
| 8 | Apparently he kept the old girl 's left hand in his wardrobe . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've seen plenty already , ’ he snapped , his face suddenly hardening , though basically he appreciated the personal interest which prompted her suggestion . |
| 10 | Only he had the inside story . |
| 11 | Looking down he saw the final fearful act of that day . |
| 12 | Before he sat down he kissed the two women , first on the cheek , then on the lips . |
| 13 | Perhaps he witnessed the first assault . |
| 14 | ( Perhaps he mistook the seven on his DME indicator for a three ? ) |
| 15 | So he had the first name of somebody famous . |
| 16 | So he sent the General Manager in Riyadh a personal letter telling him what he was going to do . |
| 17 | For the next four years or so he lived the nomadic life of the minstrel , heading off in his car round the well worn folk circuits of Germany , Italy and Brittany and playing everywhere from cafes to pizza parlours . |
| 18 | In doing so he voiced the main concern of all the watchful parties : the risk that control through physical restraint may emerge as common practice over the use of counselling . |
| 19 | So he got the basic idea from a poem , but obviously the play he wrote himself . |
| 20 | So he got the whole story , and when it was spelled out , the catalogue of suspicions and circumstantial evidence did sound pretty feeble . |
| 21 | Indeed , the captaincy of that side fell to Albert in mid-season after the retirement of Ted Smith and so he became the first Palace skipper to lead our club to a Football League championship . |
| 22 | Law was bound to give way but in doing so he sacrificed the only positive policy he had . |
| 23 | So he took the youngest brother to the village where the good Christian girl lived . |
| 24 | So he adopted the simple expedient of not opening it until it was beyond his power to act on it . |
| 25 | So he conceived the excellent idea of producing a new series designed to catch the emerging poets at their earliest publishable point , to be called the ‘ McGill Poetry Series ’ . |
| 26 | So he allowed the strange old Englishwoman to play her game of gaoler . |
| 27 | So he picked the one profession that would work around the class system . |
| 28 | John had been alerted to the possibility of profit and so he sentenced the Honourable Alexander Augustus to a stiff course of Lake Tourism into the Jaws of Borrowdale . |
| 29 | Edward , leaden with gloom , waited for the kettle to boil ; as he did so he watched the steady progress of a wood-louse across the wall behind the sink . |
| 30 | So he put the black magic in a can — and Guinness recently sold its 100 millionth tin . |