Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How firmly he clung to doctrine , and much he feared certain dangers … |
| 2 | If only he had some tools … |
| 3 | Perhaps he thought powerful attacks on her might produce the result he longed for . |
| 4 | Perhaps he kept such books at Castle Street , or read them in the Advocates ' Library . |
| 5 | Perhaps he has important friends . |
| 6 | So he formulated three conditions : |
| 7 | So he sold ten futures in the index and bought the corresponding basket of shares . |
| 8 | So he spent long days and evenings at Meadowbanks , working ( when he had done a stint of transcription ) on the manuscript which was destined to be the Walter Machin volume in the Payne 's Great Authors series of monographs . |
| 9 | So he got two nights in one week and the others done the Monday , Tuesday , Wednesday , Thursday . |
| 10 | Then indeed , after a long time , Childebert considered what ought to be added , and he instituted from 78 to 83 , which he is known to have imposed worthily , and so he transmitted these writings to his brother Chlothar . |
| 11 | Pitt-Rivers was well aware that excavation destroys evidence as it uncovers it , and so he kept meticulous records . |
| 12 | So he watches most movies alone at private screenings . |
| 13 | Crucially he arranged these zones every 15° longitude apart : with 360° around the globe , and 24 hours to deal with , simple arithmetic indicated that each zone should be roughly 15° wide . |
| 14 | ‘ My first reaction was jealously he had great legs , ’ she said . |
| 15 | Inside he asked many questions , before telling Harry that he would be safe there that night , and that he would bring food and , if possible , soap and razor . |
| 16 | Thus he defines professional jobs as those of producers who define both the needs of the consumer and how those needs should be met . |
| 17 | Soon he needed new clothes . |
| 18 | Broadly he identified two categories of reform : those relating to people ( designed to produce changes in civil service culture ) , and those relating to institutions ( designed to clarify arrangements for resource management ) . |
| 19 | Admittedly he has some reservations even about free-range farming such as the need for castration , transportation and slaughtering techniques but , as Francis and Norman point out ( 1978 : 516 ) , since Singer himself thinks that much of this suffering could be eliminated , it is simply a matter of working to bring these improvements about . |
| 20 | Tonight he joins distinguished lexicographers Prof John Sinclair ( Birmingham University ) John Simpson ( Oxford English Dictionary ) and Sara Tulloch ( Oxford Dictionary of New words ) to take a wry look at the way the English language is constantly in flux . |
| 21 | In school , George was described as ‘ aggressive … he wanders about instead of getting on with his work … he wo n't conform … he 's like his brother … generally he disturbs other children . |
| 22 | ‘ I 'm withdrawing my plans and will not he taking legal proceedings after all . |
| 23 | 223 ( including the passage , at p. 229 , ‘ a person entrusted with a discretion must , so to speak , direct himself properly in law ’ ) and the manner in which thereafter he applied those principles to the facts of the case before the House . |
| 24 | Thereafter he made regular journeys in Greece and Turkey , some of which formed the subject of two of his major travel books , Researches in the Highlands of Turkey ( 2 vols. , 1869 ) and Turkish Armenia and Eastern Asia Minor ( 1881 ) . |
| 25 | Gradually he noticed tiny movements which coincided with the changing numbers . |
| 26 | Wolfgang Roller , chairman of Dresdner Bank , said yesterday he expected long-term rates to fall by nearly two points and inflation to average 4 p.c. as the German economy recovers . |
| 27 | Nonetheless he brings new ideas to ‘ Haschmemann ’ and ‘ Am Kamin ’ . |
| 28 | Thenceforth he played many games not only for the MCC but for a variety of sides . |
| 29 | Most controversially he announced sweeping cuts in commodity subsidies which he said were unavoidable as government subsidies on wheat and petrol had previously amounted to £S1,000 million and £S7,700 million respectively , which simply could not be sustained . |
| 30 | Later he retracted these comments which he attributed to pressure from the press . |