Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] it [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he had it already made out … ’ |
| 2 | She had not quite the disdain of him that she put into what she said ; and perhaps he knew it as well as she did . |
| 3 | Perhaps he likes it better on the water . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Perhaps he considered it more important to warn you against venery than venality . ’ |
| 5 | Courier , who took an undistinguished 2-5 Davis Cup record into the match , explained his past failures by saying perhaps he wanted it too much when playing for his country . |
| 6 | So he said it again , ‘ Help me . ’ |
| 7 | And the third servant says Well no if I if I go out and buy something something might go wrong and I 'll lose the talent , and so he hides it away in the drawer . |
| 8 | When they had all come in he closed it again . |
| 9 | When Boswell , hearing his praise of it , said , perhaps enquiringly , ‘ You never ate it before , ’ Johnson replied that he had hot but did not care how soon he ate it again . |
| 10 | A blazing torch landed beside him , and desperately he tossed it away to sizzle out in the water . |
| 11 | Does not he think it right that all such pensioners should receive compensation when they have lost so much pension due to his complacency and reprehensible laxity ? |
| 12 | Very quickly he found it increasingly painful to breathe . |
| 13 | Later he suppressed it altogether . |
| 14 | On the way up he flaps it wickedly at me . |
| 15 | And there — how clearly he remembered it suddenly — there , watching them climb into the dark , was the boy , smiling beatifically , his big , dark eyes filled with wonder . |
| 16 | now he took it very bad like as much as Margaret |
| 17 | Now he knew it consciously , took note of it . |
| 18 | He had been blind to it before , but now he saw it clearly . |
| 19 | Whereas before , in 1906 , Picasso had simplified and reinterpreted the human form in a more empirical fashion under the influence of archaic sculpture , now he explains it rationally in terms of simple self-contained planes differentiated by the use of a consistent light source . |
| 20 | Well he likes it better there . |
| 21 | Well he chips it properly up in the air , but it 's like no power there so it just hit the roof and like Nicky just put it forward . |
| 22 | ‘ And did n't he do it well ? ’ |
| 23 | Does n't he like it either ? |
| 24 | If Mo liked the idea then why should n't he like it now ? ’ |
| 25 | We are on familiar ground , since this idealism is none other than his deeper — sometimes he called it deepest , sometimes highest — realism ; but with new implications in that he is beginning to show a sensitiveness to the actual which no doubt existed before but was rarely evident , a sensitiveness which is now coming out like a bruise . |
| 26 | The poor little thing ’ , and he would laugh , and sometimes he would skin it himself and sometimes he would throw it away , but now she says , ‘ I am not going to skin that rabbit , Hywel , so do n't imagine I am ’ , and sometimes he skins it himself and sometimes he throws it away . |
| 27 | Then he dragged it away to the drawing-room . |
| 28 | We get turned and cant pass back to Lukic unless its VERY safe , and even then he kicks it straight out of play so relieving the pressure on the opposition AND putting pressure on us . |
| 29 | Then he heard it again , a slight but unmistakable sound from next door . |
| 30 | And then he said it aloud : ‘ Pelion on Ossa . ’ |