Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A chef in Saratoga Springs exasperated by a difficult customer complaining that his french fries were not sliced thinly enough cut the potatoes paper thin ; the irony was that the customer enjoyed the delicacy so much he asked for more and thus crisps were born . |
| 2 | Apparently he fought with incredible bravery at Lincoln , only retreating when the King was captured . |
| 3 | In fact , with Daddy it was all work apparently he put in some ridiculous hours . |
| 4 | Perhaps he hopes by this means to get the best of both worlds ; actually , of course , he gets the worst . |
| 5 | ‘ Perhaps he sits with Zayed in London , ’ she said . |
| 6 | Perhaps he came on that . |
| 7 | Perhaps he thought of this too when he climbed on the chair and made a noose at the end of the rope , a very neat noose with the rope bound ten times round the loop in even rings . |
| 8 | Perhaps he existed after all . ’ |
| 9 | Perhaps he believes in third-time lucky , but other hopefuls in the British auction would do well to rely on something more concrete than fortune . |
| 10 | Unfortunately , they played in blue strips and Nicholas could not face the prospect of signing for a team that wore the same colour of shirts as Rangers , and so he returned to Celtic Boys Club to await his calling from Paradise . |
| 11 | In doing so he recovered from three consecutive defeats at the hands of outsider Jerry Brown , the most recent of which had been in the Alaska caucus on April 2 , where Brown had won 33 per cent of the vote compared with Clinton 's 30 per cent . |
| 12 | And so he waited for these really rather unexpected people to explain what they required , and hoped he would be able to do whatever it was . |
| 13 | So he went through all the glasses until finally they said to me , ‘ Take yours off , ’ and they fitted Rock Hudson perfectly , and he looked in the mirror and said , ‘ I think I look rather good in glasses . ’ |
| 14 | So he came along this morning and picked it up ! |
| 15 | And so he drifts towards vanishing point : ‘ One may argue about everything endlessly , but from me nothing has come but negation , with no magnanimity and no force . |
| 16 | So he plastered on pink paint — but forgot to get planning permission first . |
| 17 | So he plastered on pink paint — but forgot to get planning permission first . |
| 18 | So he turned to other forms of theatre , directing operas , writing and staging revues and musicals , to which he brought new ideas and methods that were widely admired . |
| 19 | So he staggered about ten yards and fell down with a moan on some pallets . |
| 20 | So he put in three thousand . |
| 21 | In doing so he diverges from common sense . |
| 22 | So he stood for ten minutes at the window watching soldiers tossing bundles of equipment into the gurg-ling FV 432s parked around the parade ground and feeling the deep contentment of seeing other people working very hard very early in the day . |
| 23 | He criticised the backwardness of Islamic orthodoxy ; nevertheless he wrote on 17 October 1936 , ‘ a soul that was only superficially Islamic has become a soul convinced of Islam … a soul that daily rendered homage to HIM ’ . |
| 24 | But it 's clear his orders are to stay outside and keep it verbal , and soon he comes on heavy with the landlord 's message . |
| 25 | Further , these general behavioural characteristics can easily he confused with those of normal adolescence or personal idiosyncrasy and , conversely , one may find much " normal " behaviour even in those who have severe addictive disease . |
| 26 | Anyway he looked like that he had a red car and he was sitting in the car and he put them down like that and they were like that in the car and after I thought I should 've popped at her house see if she 's wearing that in the house I thought you git . |
| 27 | Generally he rose at five-thirty , before she was awake . |
| 28 | Silently Joshua returned his stare , then made what sounded like a snort which quickly became a chuckle until finally he exploded into outright laughter . |
| 29 | Years of being dismissed by Gould while Lear was lonely and homesick in Rome eventually took their toll , and finally he turned against one of the friends he had been trying most persuasively to woo . |
| 30 | He was pursued all over Galloway , Carrick and Kyle , and given little respite , but still he preached at well-attended conventicles , baptised children , and officiated at weddings . |