Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [subord] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But his clubs blazed most effectively when he put Nicklaus and Ballesteros into second place at Royal Birkdale . |
| 2 | Whatever one 's opinion , he has missed remarkably little considering he has had to cope with such an endless barrage of fast bowling . |
| 3 | His dissenting and mercantile interests came together most poignantly when he attacked the East India Company under the leadership of the court-connected Sir Josiah Child [ q.v . ] . |
| 4 | He was indeed kind , exceptionally so ; but he never indulged in insincerity for the sake of pleasing , and he could be downright enough when he deemed it necessary . |
| 5 | Ron was virtually dead physiologically before he achieved a consistent recognition of the severity of his state . |
| 6 | By canne , which could mean ‘ cane ’ in the English senses of a hollow reed or a light walking-stick , Antoine implies something rather long unless he uses the word wholly jokingly . |
| 7 | He got up and came to squat next to her , flipping through the pages rather impatiently until he stopped suddenly . |
| 8 | Lucy Lane had been working in his team for three years but he felt that he knew her only a little better than he had done after her first month . |
| 9 | ‘ I know Devlin a little better than he imagines and I was not at all fooled about this easy assignment of yours . ’ |
| 10 | He understood it a little better when he saw what a state the survivors were in . |
| 11 | He jumped into the shower and felt a little better when he got out a few seconds later . |
| 12 | In fact , rather better than he 'd seemed the last time I 'd seen him . |
| 13 | It seemed to go down all right so he cleared his throat . |
| 14 | But he does , he lives in the churchyard , and he has done on and off , as you say , for a few years , and he 's been a bit of a most of the time he 's perfectly all right because he keeps himself to himself . |
| 15 | Ember shoved the wheeled ramp sideways but it was all right because he 'd told her to hang on and she had . |
| 16 | ‘ He 'll be all right if he does n't start listening to the wrong people . ’ |
| 17 | It was something which Morton itched to do — perhaps only because he knew it was impossible . |
| 18 | I respect them , especially so as he has just come from South Africa . |
| 19 | So perhaps when he needed to fly by instinct in deciding the course of his career , there was the Cach , the action , the absorbed attention of everybody he knew and the glamour of illicit cigarette smoke uncoiling in the beam of the projector . |
| 20 | And he stood and listened to this for a while and then he thought he was delayed long enough so he set off home . |
| 21 | In the ensuing hours and days he would get to know Francis Garland perhaps better than he knew many of his colleagues and acquaintances . |
| 22 | With her thoughts going dreamily round and round , it was about seven-thirty that , as she was again thinking of how he had that morning cradled her so gently when he 'd seen her hurt , Leith suddenly became horror-struck . |
| 23 | ‘ Why should it matter to you so much whether he sells or not ? |
| 24 | Simpson could see that they knew each other much better than he 'd presumed . |
| 25 | Nicklaus , now 52 , was one of 12 players to break 70 with a 69 , a score matched by not only Bernhard Langer and Steve Richardson , of the Europeans , but also Woosnam , who began his defence of the title much better than he had expected . |
| 26 | He works much better when he has plenty of space around him , and when his name is , metaphorically or literally , the only one above the title . |
| 27 | It was so long since he had taken an interest in anything . |
| 28 | somehow in the drama , even though it 's so long since he passed away . |
| 29 | It was so long since he 'd wanted someone like this . |
| 30 | He says it 's so long since he saw you and the girls that he wo n't know you . |