Example sentences of "[adv] he [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently he always reckoned a pretty girl with a lovely smile was more important than any other quality ; so the teeth had to be good . |
| 2 | Perhaps he even drops a Kit-Kat wrapper . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps he still has a chance , ’ said a western diplomat in Pakistan , ‘ but it looks as though events have overtaken him . |
| 4 | Perhaps he only wanted a cigarette , or a couple of bob for the meter . |
| 5 | So he wisely avoided a clash of horns in front of the herd . |
| 6 | So he simply made a convincing artificial one to hide his miniaturized booty , and the Vadinamia 's missed it — because when he left he was just the same as when he arrived . |
| 7 | If he does attempt to do so he either receives a negative reply or causes the officer of that other authority to send a copy of the correspondence to his own chief executive or clerk . |
| 8 | And when my grandfather came in he always had a pocketful of these tips , and he would give us all some sixpences and some threepennies . ’ |
| 9 | There 's a reason the little corner shops do that you see , that corner shop especially he always has a blackboard outside |
| 10 | By now he was used to spending longer and longer periods alone , yet in that moment when she walked away he always experienced a brief sense of loss that made him want to rush after her and beg her not to go . |
| 11 | He had his own clergy attached to his cathedral , and gradually he eventually acquired a parish clergy over whom he could sometimes exercise control . |
| 12 | Now he rarely misses a Rangers match , a privilege of cut- price rail travel . |
| 13 | He had wept too but now he calmly awaited a new pleasure . |
| 14 | Even now he still looks a beast of a man . ’ |
| 15 | Now he usually got a car for sale . |
| 16 | Well he normally gives a little er |
| 17 | Yeah well he probably meant a little cake you know , like the one |
| 18 | When the arrangement was revealed two weeks ago he immediately became a member of staff and said the advantage had amounted to only £810 a year . |
| 19 | ‘ Has n't he already got a clock radio ? |
| 20 | ‘ Why does n't he just wear a cocktail dress ? ’ asks Richard . |
| 21 | Could n't he just have a tractor ? ’ |
| 22 | So why could n't he just have a photograph of his sales team portraying the kind of team spirit that runs throughout the branch ? |
| 23 | ‘ But could n't he even raise a finger so we 'd know he can understand us ? ’ |
| 24 | From 6pm to 7pm he usually has a meeting with the group chief executive , and then informal meetings with executives who are still around . |
| 25 | Then he carefully moves a pawn one little square and leans back like he 's changed the whole pattern of the game . |
| 26 | Then he actually made a paper aeroplane so that she had an example in front of her that she can look at to see what she is aiming for . |
| 27 | And then he too made a troubled face . |
| 28 | But then he never missed a trick . |
| 29 | From there he easily caught a British Airways flight staging through from Mauritius to London . |
| 30 | Here we can see Sheikh Haj Amin al-Husseini shaking hands with the leader of the SS , there he proudly inspects a volunteer Muslim contingent of the Wehrmacht . |