Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The fancier something looked , the better he thought it tasted . |
| 2 | ‘ Perhaps he makes it appear so . ’ |
| 3 | Perhaps he did it to please the Patriarch . |
| 4 | Perhaps he did it to hear Mother scream . |
| 5 | And anxious that his relationship with Chantal might not be all he thought it had been . |
| 6 | So he got out and he looked underneath and the drive shaft had fell off so he got it towed back to the garage wherever this garage was and they had a look at it and all the head were loose you could waggle them about ! |
| 7 | Although the revs are low the blades are still turning so he has it tilted back on the iron roller . |
| 8 | He 's just as likely to be found talking to a six-strong student society in Bangor as addressing 500 top Earth scientists in Washington ; he will have a drink with ( and on ) me just as readily ( or so he makes it appear ) as he will have lunch with ( and no doubt on ) the director of the US National Science Foundation ; if he 's not corresponding with some editor over some esoteric point of science , he 's trying to persuade the high-ups at the European Space Agency to do something adventurous in planetology for a change . |
| 9 | Clive spilled some of the powder as he heaped it in the spoon , and could not hold it steady over his lighter flame , but finally he got it liquefied . |
| 10 | Somehow he made it sound like a valid excuse . |
| 11 | Nonetheless he let it ring , feeling closer to her even through this tenuous connection , because his phone was ringing in her flat . |
| 12 | ‘ But you can remember it all ? ’ said Fenella , anxiously , and Pumlumon pushed his hat well back and scratched his head and said once he got it going , it would follow as the night the day , or maybe it was the other way round . |
| 13 | A minute later he saw it flying past well over to his right at a height of about two hundred feet . |
| 14 | But Richard had not forgotten and seventeen years later he wanted it remembered — however lightheartedly — that he had conquered there , too . |
| 15 | Now he saw it had all been a sham . |
| 16 | Before he had curbed it ; now he gave it rein . |
| 17 | I said on what well he said it 's got ta be well cos Maggie said it 's too late I said no |
| 18 | Well he does it does n't he ? |
| 19 | I said well he reckons it does , he says when he filled up at the garage it were full , he says we had n't got back and it was between the half and three quarters , I said oh I never looked at it |
| 20 | Presumably he intended it to fire up his own team , but predictably it did just that to the opposition . |
| 21 | Sometimes he said it contained eighty-one Communists , sometimes fifty-seven , sometimes ‘ a lot ’ . |
| 22 | Downstairs , in the little stationery shop at the back which her father had started in a small way as a trial , and which had become so successful that sometimes he joked it financed everything else , was a safe full of cash . |
| 23 | His Mum went to open it and then he heard it close again . |
| 24 | He heard the train whistle , the engine was slowing for a signal then he heard it pick up speed again . |
| 25 | And then he thought it did not perhaps matter so greatly . |
| 26 | Then he scrapes it closed , and comes back . |
| 27 | ’ His face creased into a fierce frown of concentration , then he let it go , shaking his head . |
| 28 | Cos he keeps growing his hair , to sort of there , and then he has it cut off , do n't he , he 's shaved . |
| 29 | Hopeless with that on because of course , he 's been wearing a pullover all the time and initially he had it clipped on the right hand side of his belts and of course , with that switch where is it ? |
| 30 | They had pleaded with the bankruptcy judge to close down Eastern last autumn , but instead he allowed it to remain airborne and continue to run down its cash resources . |