Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gloomily he confided to his diary , ‘ Too great a task , undertaken with inadequate reserves . ’ |
| 2 | The man still stared at the water , then suddenly he dropped to his haunches , squatting like the children did sometimes at play when the ground was too wet to sit . |
| 3 | Suddenly he jumped to his feet , staring at the wall opposite the door . |
| 4 | Suddenly he jumped to his feet and began to run up and down the garden , shrieking , turning cartwheels , hopping on one leg . |
| 5 | Then suddenly he diverged from his text : |
| 6 | Suddenly he rose from his chair , gave a quick look round the office , then went across to the window , where he stood looking down into the courtyard . |
| 7 | apparently he paid for his |
| 8 | Perhaps he relied on our personal friendship to override whatever my political views or personal interest had become . |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps he takes after his father . |
| 10 | Perhaps he drank with his friends . |
| 11 | A grin of flashing white teeth was all he got for his trouble . |
| 12 | So he stuck with his job at the Zoo . |
| 13 | So he reached for his number one club-stick |
| 14 | Like yeah , because like about what he did you know he was staying up with and all this and like giving him money and looking after Andrew so he goes for my parents Jimmy 's really nice . |
| 15 | And so he thinks of his labour as a commodity , like tea or iron . |
| 16 | So he went to their field headquarters near Leicester and was relieved to find his friends were all well . |
| 17 | So he went to his wagon alone on his wedding night , and drove unaided up on to the moor , whipping his horses across the wilderness of black , tossing , wet grass . |
| 18 | He passed ‘ the pleasantest part of his youth ’ as a student at Edinburgh University — or so he declared in his will — and it was as a result of his generous bequest that the Faculty of Music was founded . |
| 19 | And so he slipped on his anorak and scurried outside , bottle in hand to join in the festivities . |
| 20 | So he looks to his Lord and Master first of all . |
| 21 | As he pretended to do so he hissed in his son 's ear , " God grant that I may not die until I have had my revenge on you . " |
| 22 | At four o'clock he cycled to his piano lesson with Mr Gordon . |
| 23 | At eight o'clock he got in his car and went to the office . |
| 24 | Thus he sought in his lecture to ridicule the suggestion made by Waldron and myself in 1974 that detoxification with penicillamine might be a useful alternative to prison ( itself almost wholly useless ) in the management of those types of offender exhibiting the hyperactivity syndrome . |
| 25 | But soon he relapsed into his dangerous black mood , fingering the razor-sharp edge of his knife , open in his pocket . |
| 26 | And anyway he came to my party when it was my birthday . ’ |
| 27 | To take his mind off the scene outside he looked at his companion instead . |
| 28 | Micky Yornutta is not so sure , so he asked Brian what exactly he expects from his side and Brian , as ever , decided not to sit on the fence , but the main concern being for his side to pass the ball as opposed to kicking it , but first Brian says that long ball to John Durnin is all wrong . |
| 29 | Effortlessly he rose to his feet , looming over her . |
| 30 | And already he knew in his heart that to be a vicar or a curate was not his vocation as a priest for the rest of his life . |