Example sentences of "[verb] [adv] [verb] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Johnson arrived in Winnipeg for the Canadian championships , but his advisers notified organisers late on Friday that a week-old hamstring injury had not healed sufficiently to enable him to race in Saturday 's 60 metres . |
| 2 | The years of his longest sentence , from 1979 to 1983 ( incurred for setting up , in admiring imitation of the Polish KOR , a Czech Committee to Defend the Unjustly Prosecuted ) were punctuated by other , sometimes painfully absurd episodes : for example the day the Interior Ministry 's men relented sufficiently to allow him to attend his father 's funeral , and then inadvertently let him be surrounded by a tight scrum of friends who brought him up to date with all the latest political news . |
| 3 | But what he lacked in build he made up for in speed and skill , nipping in and out of solid defences with astounding ease . |
| 4 | One has rarely heard him sing with more authority , and never seen him so communicative , happy and funny . |
| 5 | It has since emerged he sent the letters from a York Post Office on that day before trying to gas himself in his car and take an overdose over the weekend . |
| 6 | But they were going for a walk , they had come in to make him go with them , and they wanted me to go too . |
| 7 | But if Sutherland sounds distant and indifferent to his father — ’ We see each other very rarely ’ he insists — one has only to ask him to list his favourite Donald Sutherland movies to see a proud and admiring son . |
| 8 | The UN has called on the Home Office to reconsider the ‘ humanitarian aspects ’ in his case , but has not said he deserves asylum . |
| 9 | However , the severity of her symptoms and the embarrassing situation in which she had collapsed soon led him to take her symptoms seriously . |
| 10 | She flushed and tried not to let him rile her . |
| 11 | He swung his leg over the saddle , rocked the bike off its stand and balanced it with his legs while she put on the helmet , tugged on the huge gloves and tried not to let him know she was panicking . |
| 12 | KEEPER Bruce Grobbelaar has finally accepted he has no future at Liverpool . |
| 13 | He 'll be on the bench today and the boss says : ‘ Danny has finally learned he has nothing to prove here — whereas I think he tried too hard before . |
| 14 | And James has just announced he does n't want a career . |
| 15 | The first reason for McElroy 's unease is that President Reagan has just told him to prepare a brief for doing away with his own job — and that of most of the other 1100 people on the administrator 's staff . |
| 16 | When trying to guess where someone went when I missed him at the airport I do not imagine his thoughts , I try to imagine his situation as someone like him would see it , and think ; if he tells me he has just learned he has cancer I may hear in imagination the doctor 's grave voice , but I do not imagine the fear , I feel the chill of it ; if I see him cut his finger I do not imagine the pain as something objective before my ‘ mind 's eye ’ , either I look on as though the knife were cutting through cheese or I incipiently wince . |
| 17 | Dr Boutros-Ghali has already said he favours the idea but it appears to have divided UN peace-keepers in Bosnia and the main UN aid agency . |
| 18 | ‘ One trader has already indicated he has had an increase in takings over the last week . |
| 19 | A month later he phoned home to say he had joined the Croatian Army in Yugoslavia . |
| 20 | He holds the romantic belief that only the wordless language of music is complete and it is music which has always helped him to live and to write . |
| 21 | They 'd ganged up on Kenny and afterwards he looked as if the mean streets had come up to meet him face first . |
| 22 | She felt the shivers again as she ate her meal and frequently looked up to find him watching her , his eyes on the glitter of her silvery hair . |
| 23 | Olsen has belief in frank , and has also seen him play U21 successfully . |
| 24 | It has also allowed him to boost outputs with the Mengele forager , an important benefit for a contractor needing to cover as many acres in a year as possible . |
| 25 | Shortly afterwards he left the licensed dealer which then tried unsuccessfully to get him sacked from the stockbroker he had persuaded to give him a job . |
| 26 | The people drew back to let him pass . |
| 27 | This has often led him to tighten monetary policy while everybody around was urging him to ease . |
| 28 | At first the police treated his death as suspicious , but a post mortem has now revealed he died from hypothermia . |
| 29 | His lust for life has now lead him to take piano lessons . |
| 30 | It has n't stopped him making guest appearances and recordings with western orchestras , and he is no longer in a position where he 's asked only to conduct Russian music — ‘ Berlioz and Beethoven with British orchestras were far more interesting propositions for me than , for example , Tchaikovsky , because you remember too much the way Russian orchestras play Tchaikovsky with the huge sound and the heaviness and the passion ’ . |