Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] [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 came on that . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Perhaps he existed after all . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . ’ |
| 11 | So he came along this morning and picked it up ! |
| 12 | So he plastered on pink paint — but forgot to get planning permission first . |
| 13 | So he plastered on pink paint — but forgot to get planning permission first . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | So he staggered about ten yards and fell down with a moan on some pallets . |
| 16 | So he put in three thousand . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Generally he rose at five-thirty , before she was awake . |
| 22 | Silently Joshua returned his stare , then made what sounded like a snort which quickly became a chuckle until finally he exploded into outright laughter . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | For clearly , if ever he trusted to this in the first place , he had come without any weapon . ’ |
| 26 | Thereafter he spoke on two occasions ( 1723 and 1725 ) on customs matters , and in 1726 he published a pamphlet entitled ‘ An Essay on the Public Debts ’ which in 1727 prompted a rejoinder , ‘ A State of the National Debt ’ , reputedly by William Pulteney , Earl of Bath [ q.v . ] . |
| 27 | Charles detected a tendency for his teeth to chatter and grew indignant the more he thought of this flagrant breach of the conventions . |
| 28 | And the older Richard got , the greater the adolescent turbulence , the fiercer the rebellion , the more he clashed with Elfed and the more he provoked Cis 's displays of loyalty . |
| 29 | But it 's , well considering he had to re-putty all the windows , it was n't just like he had to one |
| 30 | And of course DaSilva erm , not flashing those strokes round like he did on that first innings er , playing a very sensible innings from the point of view of Sri Lanka , but his erm , have n't seen many of his flashing strokes . |