Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | Apparently he says the old ones were totally inadequate . ’ |
| 10 | Apparently he kept the old girl 's left hand in his wardrobe . |
| 11 | ‘ I 've seen plenty already , ’ he snapped , his face suddenly hardening , though basically he appreciated the personal interest which prompted her suggestion . |
| 12 | Only he had the inside story . |
| 13 | Looking down he saw the final fearful act of that day . |
| 14 | Before he sat down he kissed the two women , first on the cheek , then on the lips . |
| 15 | Perhaps he witnessed the first assault . |
| 16 | ( Perhaps he mistook the seven on his DME indicator for a three ? ) |
| 17 | So he does the best he can to limit the damage done by the past , in efficiency or justice , by deciding against Mrs. McLoughlin ; if we object , we seem to have succumbed to a fetishism of doctrinal elegance , slavery to coherence for its own sake . |
| 18 | So he gets the first and decide what you wan na get to . |
| 19 | So he had the first name of somebody famous . |
| 20 | So he sent the General Manager in Riyadh a personal letter telling him what he was going to do . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | So he got the basic idea from a poem , but obviously the play he wrote himself . |
| 24 | So he got the whole story , and when it was spelled out , the catalogue of suspicions and circumstantial evidence did sound pretty feeble . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Law was bound to give way but in doing so he sacrificed the only positive policy he had . |
| 27 | So he took the youngest brother to the village where the good Christian girl lived . |
| 28 | So he adopted the simple expedient of not opening it until it was beyond his power to act on it . |
| 29 | 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 ’ . |
| 30 | So he allowed the strange old Englishwoman to play her game of gaoler . |