Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
Next pageNo | Sentence |
---|---|
1 | By talking to him all night and keeping him on his feet , Luke had saved Spike 's life , only to have him try again successfully a week later when the story finally hit the press . |
2 | He goes well maybe the photos just do n't compliment her and I said yeah but they , I think they did , they 're really complimentary . |
3 | Dr Carrington was trained as a physician and a psychiatrist ; however , particularly as he became more ill , his professional mantle dropped away from him , as is often the case , and he became more simply a sick human . |
4 | Well I never heard the well he had applied once before and he he got as far an interview and then he did n't get any further . |
5 | The causes he pursued so vigorously no doubt satisfied some deep , emotional void . |
6 | Yesterday he described as easily the toughest day , both because of a blustery wind and what he called some ‘ very serious pin positions , many on downslopes ’ . |
7 | So , when Mr Goodman enquired about him , George was eager to come to Selhurst Park and most Palace historians agree that , had he done so even a month before the end of 1924–25 , the Palace would never have been relegated from Division Two . |
8 | He did n't say a word ; instead , he played very quietly a short quotation from an opera which said all that needed to be said . |
9 | Johnson flits over it all in a sentence , and in his letters to Mrs Thrale he came forth only a little more , alluding only to the success of the visit , and to the debate as to whether the savage or the shopkeeper had the best life . |
10 | He deplored ( Sir ) Winston Churchill 's big-navy policy , and he opposed quite provocatively the campaign for women 's suffrage . |
11 | His affection and solicitude for Dobrée , as for other old friends like Herbert Read , Philip Mairet and Frank Morley , is very touching , and he seemed now almost a grandpaterfamilias for the men who had known him so well . |
12 | Sweeney shocks because he shows so clearly the effect of lack of themis . |
13 | Derek Piggott , my instructor/demonstrator who has many hours on the Chevron , informed me that climb rate can be increased considerably by using thermal activity , and he showed very adequately the power off characteristics of the aircraft by stopping the engine and demonstrating the very impressive 17 to 1 glide ratio . |
14 | He has publicly demanded the commitment he showed as probably the finest player in the club 's history . |
15 | As he walked disconsolately away the hotheaded Cypriot crowd threw several missiles on to the running track — but fortunately none reached the Liverpool bench . |
16 | London was the place to prove himself as a choreographer , and he spent almost exactly the next third of his life there , fifteen years , doing that and much more besides . |
17 | Sometimes , as they encountered new crowds of pole-carrying Annamese peasants jogging ceaselessly between market and rice field , or spilling out of their tiny village temples and pagodas , he felt that what had happened was somehow inextricably bound up with the torrid , exotic country that was so totally unfamiliar to him in all its ways , and other distressing images of the recent past began to flood through his mind ; he saw again the brutal French colon lashing the fallen prisoners between the shafts of the cart in Saigon , remembered the horror he had felt at the sight of what he thought were many massacred coolies on the river wharf on their arrival , and he heard once more the thud of the Citron striking the peasant boy on the way to the hunting camp . |
18 | He had long since stopped noticing the foul smell inside the little concrete box , or the damp grittiness of the floor against his cheek , and he heard only distantly the rolling crash of thunder . |
19 | He prized too highly the Judaic emphasis of the wholeness of man 's nature — oneness — his enjoyment of the gift of sexuality ; and he criticised — at least e silencio — the false views that dichotomised and castrated man . |
20 | In November 1937 he read the script aloud to Martin Browne and his wife , and their reaction was one of " fascination and doubt " : there was too much description and not enough action , they felt , and so he began once again the struggle to elucidate plot and characters . |
21 | Writing this in 1757 , at the beginning of the Seven Years War , Malachi Postlethwayt may have failed to prophesy the exact sequence of war and peace , but he perceived clearly enough the interactions between war , debt and taxation which largely determined the public policy of Hanoverian England . |
22 | He perceived very well the dangers involved in an attempt to concentrate too many resources upon major capital projects . |
23 | He remembers most warmly the lively discussions in the Men 's Bible Class , the chief spokesman being Mr John George McCann who , with his family , for many years gave skilled and professional help with the harvest decorations . |
24 | The most committed football fan I have ever met , Neil Kaas , watches his team home and away , but this he regards as just a tiny part of the job , like opening mail . |
25 | Ronnie Moran , who resumes the role of caretaker manager he relinquished just over a year ago when Mr Souness arrived from Glasgow Rangers to fill the vacancy created by Kenny Dalglish 's shock resignation , said : ‘ We must try to give Graeme something special to come back to in the form of the FA Cup itself . |
26 | He saw once more the star-form of closed lips , the penis beneath them hanging its head as if in awe , a godlet among goddesses . |
27 | As for Williams , who had an English father , it would be easy to explain away his hostility to England ; but the sorrier likelihood is that he saw quite justly the baleful mixture of timidity and arrogance which characterized literary London in his lifetime . |
28 | He knew very well the dangers of any allusions to any of these articles , but the mere unavoidable act of looking at them was more than enough for his hostess . |
29 | But curiously , as he perused once more the reasons given for Murphy 's rejection , they hardly seemed to be the tall boy 's fault . |
30 | He emerges as precisely the opposite — a noble and tragic figure , reluctantly consenting to play an unpleasant , painful and obligatory role in a carefully pre-arranged script . |