Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | You know given that life is as it is are you okay and he said yes so I went round the gardens and I came back to him and I had a friend coming for lunch and I thought this is ridiculous , I 'm going to have something to drink and I 'm going to have a meal so I made him an enormous great wad of cheese sandwiches and some apples and a piece of cake and some biscuits and a cup of tea and I went downstairs with the milk and the sugar and cup of tea and all this stuff and I went into the gardens and this poor child he looked very defensively a second time and I said well I thought you might like some breakfast and I wrapped the second lot up so if you 've nothing later on , why not put it in your pocket and eat later in the day and I did n't know whether you took milk or sugar , so I thought I 'd better just ask you and do you know I thought he was going to cry . |
| 10 | He intrigued us and then , when we had the good fortune to meet him socially , he emerged as both a remarkable and idealistic person . |
| 11 | But Dan he he cried like once a day or something like that . |
| 12 | On being taken back , he ran away again a few days later and this time was not forced to return , nor permitted to do so . |
| 13 | ‘ He shot too early a couple of times , that was his problem , but then I think I shot too early sometimes , too . |
| 14 | His own practice , as recorded in one of a series of articles which appeared in the Manchester Guardian in October and November 1930 * by one of the pupils who attended the evening classes he held there once a week between 1925 and 1927 , was from a drawing to make a careful sketch in various hades of one colour , obtaining in this way the construction of the picture and the suggestion for various tonal values . |
| 15 | After his first book , A London Farrago , appeared in 1921 , he published almost annually a volume of satire or humour , but he had a parallel career as a biographer , writing vigorous and scholarly lives of writers like Villon ( 1928 ) , Ronsard ( 1944 ) , Rabelais ( 1957 ) , Molière ( 1959 ) , and Cervantes ( 1962 ) ; studies of Louis XI ( King Spider , 1930 ) , and Charles V ( Emperor of the West , 1932 ) . |
| 16 | He stayed there only a short time before moving to Gloucestershire where he has been ever since . |