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Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [verb] he [verb] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	First Parker put him clear only to see him miscontrol and allow Gunn to save — and then Gunn kept out his close-range diving header .
2	Yet so well did my father hide his feelings , so professionally did he carry out his duties , that on his departure the General had actually complimented Mr John Silvers on the excellence of his butler and had left an unusually large tip in appreciation — which my father without hesitation asked his employer to donate to a charity .
3	Only slowly did he trace the interference to the calculator , battery powered , made by Casio .
4	Only slowly did he release the strap , as if he was reluctant to do so , and it stretched her nerves unbearably .
5	All right let him do it .
6	‘ All right to let him come up ? ’
7	So compulsively did he watch me empty my glass that he drained his own in compulsive sympathy .
8	The father of five 's face was so badly busted he had to be fitted with a metal cage to keep the bones in place until they set .
9	The policeman was so badly burned he had to be identified from dental records .
10	Surveying the results of her handiwork , she stayed only long enough to see him scrabble for the safety of the bank .
11	If he does , he should ask the helper simply to make sure that the cars stop for long enough to allow him to cross : the helper should not take the patient 's arm and hurry him across .
12	Can they interrupt David Mellor 's musings on the later Toscanini long enough to make him listen ?
13	He paused just long enough to ensure he had her full attention before going on to deliver his thuderbolt .
14	He brought you back here , and you stayed with him long enough to get him to part with the doge 's ring … ’
15	The temptation to evade the truth was suddenly almost more than Harry could bear , so achingly did he want to go home .
16	He did not feel that he would want to return to university , so he decided to apply for an unclassed ‘ War Honours ’ degree — ‘ probably not worth the paper it 's written on ’ , but perhaps enough to get him started in some profession , such as colonial service or , possibly , journalism ; he rather liked the idea of becoming a parliamentary correspondent for a newspaper .
17	Robert half-expected the whole cycle to start again , so long had he waited for an answer to this question .
18	Henry was an exacting master , possessed of so much energy that it was popularly rumoured that he could fly , so swiftly did he travel from place to place .
19	After a time I found myself frequently addressing him as ‘ Father ’ , so naturally did he touch the gentle docile side of me .
20	‘ Better not let him hear you say that , sir .
21	She worshipped him and was canny enough not to let him know .
22	Would any man who was obviously a pathological criminal be allowed his freedom so soon to enable him to continue a career of sexual violence ?
23	Well , I had this one bought at Christmas and I 've only just got him persuaded to let me bring the board down to do it downstairs cos you , where are we going to put it ?
24	But why would a man like Ipuky go to such lengths , when , if he felt that Huy was a threat , he could so easily have him killed ?
25	But only once had he ridden back with Maggie .
26	Only once had he said he loved her , and that had been in extreme circumstances .
27	Only once had he let himself begrudge it , only once , that night , and never since , for he knew it was his duty and his right to stay at home with her .
28	Only once had he returned after they all left and that had been bad enough , like a dream — no , like stepping into the set and scenario of some frightening film , a Hitchcock movie perhaps .
29	In my view this restaurant 's three year old is a model of good behaviour : his tantrums are rare and only once did he complain about a lack of attention by peeing on the floor right between my feet and his mother 's .
30	Only once did he stop , having looped back towards the City , in Finsbury Circus .