Example sentences of "he [adv] [adv] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theodore Mann , co-founder and producer of Circle-In-The-Square since 1951 , had seen Dustin on stage and wanted him badly enough to have dismissed two directors instead of the actor . |
| 2 | He had slept well , entirely oblivious of the thunderstorms that Edith told him somewhat reproachfully had kept her sleepless an night . |
| 3 | The hours which are wasting him away also seem to have a mental effect on Tithonus as well . |
| 4 | Think it 's used to you in that I do n't know what , I do n't tell Ron , well he knows how I felt cos I said course I 'm , god he said , is that a performance , he said I have n't sat on your knee for ages , I said no I just feel like it , before we went out and er , I said well I do n't think there 's anything the matter do you , I said with him back there saying make sure Mr Hudson has the notes , and he said no , he said , he said he would n't leave it seven months he said |
| 5 | She 'd thought before that he seemed used to power , and looking at him now only served to strengthen that feeling . |
| 6 | He 'd looked round and it had seemed like just about the first place he 'd seen , and some part of him deep down had said : It 's got to be somewhere , why not here ? |
| 7 | I am Catholic and can not divorce but I do not want to divorce because I do not know him well enough to want to divorce him . |
| 8 | Wycliffe had scarcely spoken since leaving the hall and Scales knew him too well to try to involve him in conversation . |
| 9 | So OK , without too much effort she had offended Ven Gajdusek , it seemed , but he most definitely had said he would think about giving her the interview ! |
| 10 | He never left our shores and he only once ventured to cross the border into Scotland . |
| 11 | Still the reality he so urgently wanted to communicate seemed to escape him , as if he was distracted by a voice whispering in his ear of what might have been , if only Kee had said yes . |
| 12 | The functionalist method which he so strenuously championed amounted , in fact , to little more than acknowledging that every custom or institution , however strange and bizarre , served some contemporary purpose . |
| 13 | I asked him why he so dearly wished to walk in a street as dank as a sewer , and to play by the waters of an oily , rat-infested canal , when we had the exquisite reaches of the Seine at hand , and the gardens of his school friends . |
| 14 | Sometimes I understood a few words or phrases ( ‘ Japaner nicht gut ’ , ‘ Demokratie ’ ) but on the whole it was a hopeless conversation just because he so badly wanted to get his meaning across to me . |
| 15 | North , the zealous visionary , besotted by his lone struggle against Communism , was so blinded by right-wing hubris that he saw nothing wrong in breaking the laws of the country he so devoutly wished to defend . |
| 16 | Tom laughed , of course , and she did n't know if she was pleased or angered that he so often seemed to find her so amusing . |
| 17 | I was surprised that he so eagerly sought to confront me . |
| 18 | Miguelito , on the other hand , had gained face the closer the men came to action — perhaps because he so obviously enjoyed killing , Trent thought as he watched Miguelito thumbnail more cocaine into his nostrils . |
| 19 | For all his long hair , bandeau and earrings which made him look like a weedy Viking , Terry Gill was a very ordinary young man , and pathetic ; pathetic because he so obviously wanted to amount to something and had no idea what . |
| 20 | And he just about managed to make out the three words uttered by Sheriff James Farrell : ‘ You are discharged . ’ |
| 21 | Oh , so he just like built did he ? |
| 22 | But he 's , he just really has to get in touch with one of them and tell them the prices . |
| 23 | He wo n't sleep during the day and he just never gets worn out . |
| 24 | ‘ No , he wasn't. — He just never intended marring her , that 's all . |
| 25 | As he said , he not only had to learn the very complicated lines but also how to copy Coward 's abdominal breathing techniques . |
| 26 | This week just past he not only failed to anticipate the row , he then reacted too slowly to it . |
| 27 | Dwyer told the players how he wanted to win the two-match series against Scotland and how he not only wanted to reclaim the Bledisloe Cup from the All Blacks but complete Australia 's first ever 3–0 series whitewash . |
| 28 | In seeking to solve this second problem of semantic exactitude , he not only fails to solve the problem of making meanings plain to the public but actually makes that problem a good deal more complex . |
| 29 | Minton , perceiving Cornish 's shyness , made him answer most of the questions and listened attentively to his replies , thereby forcing Cornish through the shyness barrier , an experience he ever afterwards felt stood him in good stead . |
| 30 | Oh met twenty six years ago , he still exactly hurry did he ? |