Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] the [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are such awkward critics as Fred Bergsten , of the Institute of International Economics in Washington , who argue that a private-sector induced deficit might actually be more tiresome than the US-style ‘ twin deficits ’ — in public finances and the current account — because however much he deprecates the latter , at least it is clear what ought to be done . |
| 2 | Now he made the most of the proffered opportunities , even putting the notion of a third book to the back of his mind meantime . |
| 3 | Here he creates the many happy and not so happy incidents that can occur on a skating rink where even a professional can ‘ miss a trick ’ . |
| 4 | Unfortunately he applied the same stricture to himself and some of his works are rather limited . |
| 5 | Everywhere he found the same thing : elderly employees , attempting to run things as they thought the old baron would have wanted , out of touch with new ideas , fearful of taking any decision on their own , and consequently stalling , allowing problems to build up . |
| 6 | And then he saw the same look of horror on Jimmy 's face as he pulled him roughly back . |
| 7 | Then he transferred the same hand to the back pocket of his trousers and did some not very good patting of both flanks . |
| 8 | Des was chatting with Macca on football focus in the morning , and then he said the same thing . |
| 9 | Then he said the same . |
| 10 | Hyatt , a Canadian case which was decided by the Privy Council , it was held that where a director holds himself out to be the agent of the shareholders , then he owes the same fiduciary duties as would an ordinary agent to his principal . |
| 11 | Then he did the same to his stepfather , whose forehead was dry and cold , almost as if he were dead already . |
| 12 | He turned the bag upside down and dumped everything onto the floor , and then he did the same for the drawers and for the wardrobe . |
| 13 | He quickly got a corn broom , went out to the back porch again and brushed his footwear clean ; then he used the same broom to sweep the snow from the kitchen floor into a safe hiding-place under a scatter rug . |
| 14 | Then he turned the few feet to Creggan 's cage and stared up to where Creggan had taken stance on the bare branch of wood that hung across his cage . |
| 15 | It seems that the potential of this new method was not realized in petrology for another forty years , for the first printed account did not appear until 1831 , in H. T. M. Witham 's Observations on Fossil Vegetables , when he published an account of how he prepared the many thin slices of fossil wood of which a microscopical description is furnished in the text . |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't know ; maybe he thought the fewer people who knew , the better . |
| 17 | Like everyone else he blamed the former chairman , who 's best not named ( but if he could be he 'd be called Alan Bowes . ) |
| 18 | Again he found the same link between unemployment and mortality . |
| 19 | Otherwise he follows the same basic procedure as the teacher ( see page 15 ) . |
| 20 | It was the first big opera he 'd conducted and he just did n't know how to do that , how to pace himself Incidentally he did the same thing when we recorded Peter Grimes and Reggie had to come in and help finish the recording . |