Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meanwhile if you have any special requests or suggestions , please let him know as soon as possible . |
| 2 | ‘ So then I had an idea that if I went to a composer who wrote very tuneful music , but asked him to work electronically rather than with instruments , I might end up with what I wanted , which was music the ear could relate to , rather than musique concrète which was the other sort of electronic music being done at the time . |
| 3 | and it , well you know , it would n't really be worthwhile him going anywhere else because that 's where |
| 4 | It was enough for a while just to have this clever , charming man as a friend , flattering to have him travel so far when he could just for the pleasure of her company . |
| 5 | I saw him depart as peacefully as a sleeping infant . |
| 6 | And Beuno said nothing , but he looked at him as mildly as he looks at the trout that he catches in the stream , and the doctor said , ‘ Until tomorrow ’ , and he left , and Beuno watched him go as mildly as he watches the sheep when he frees them from where they are caught in the hedge . |
| 7 | Let him go … try and let him go as easily as you let me go . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I know , I know , it 's early days , as you said — but you 're just not the type to let him go this far if you had any serious doubts . ’ |
| 9 | Isabel , watching closely , saw him go very still as he saw what lay between the pages . |
| 10 | He began to play , conscious now of the boy watching , of him edging slowly closer as the stones were laid , the board filled up again . |
| 11 | ‘ He has a problem because I have seen him play more often than he has seen me ! ’ |
| 12 | Visits to Exeter he made as rarely as possible . |
| 13 | He made as swiftly as he could for the foyer . |
| 14 | He said you know , cos he lived as cheaply as he could while he was out there and |
| 15 | His parents kept it spick and span , but when they died , he lived there alone until it went to rack and ruin . |
| 16 | He cared as much as I do . |
| 17 | Between 1947 and 1952 he produced no less than 300 short films , many of them for the Canadian Government , and on these merits he was appointed Director of Outside Broadcasts , Features and Documentaries with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1952 . |
| 18 | I would wager that he goes so far as to say that I broke down in his room , stuttering out the words of my so-called confession between chokes and tears , unable to speak properly . |
| 19 | He goes so far as to claim that this form of control is now ‘ characteristic of the majority of enterprises in the USA and Britain ’ , thereby denying the predominance of the management control form . |
| 20 | His opinions , he knows , are not shared by fellow portrait painters — he goes so far as to describe ‘ the rest ’ as producing ‘ old hat , boring , herd-of-sheep painting ’ , too preoccupied with imbuing a portrait with the sitter 's character . |
| 21 | Blondel in his study Political Parties : A Genuine Case for Discontent ? claims that " in the great majority of cases programmes are unclear , often limited in scope , and not closely connected to the goals which the party proclaims " and he goes so far as to assert that " on balance parties do not really have programmes " . |
| 22 | I believe that he understands more clearly than before the minimum nature of our deterrent — and that we intend to keep it . |
| 23 | ‘ You were afraid then ? ’ he asked as softly as the noise of the plane allowed . |
| 24 | ‘ What shall we do this afternoon ? ’ he asked as casually as if they spent all their Wednesday afternoons together . |
| 25 | He got as far as the lawn , just out there , and then he stopped and stood , seemingly just staring at the house . |
| 26 | He got as far as lifting his head and getting one shoulder off the seat , but then collapsed back onto the leather , and let his eyes close . |
| 27 | He got as far as twelve , then he looked puzzled . |
| 28 | He got as far as Rugby before he was caught . |
| 29 | The Shy One hardly ever speaks , partly due to nerves but more usually because he thinks more slowly than his colleagues , and by the time he has thought out a contribution someone else has already said it . |
| 30 | In the coalfields he read as avidly as ever , including in his reading books about the French revolution by Michelet and others . |