Example sentences of "he [adv] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bloke who was trying to get at the tomato purée gave him rather an odd look , but Quigley was not bothered . |
| 2 | He waited what seemed to him rather an excessive ti me for Catherine , but decided , charitably , that you could n't look as she did without pretty regular attention to the overall effect . |
| 3 | Wycliffe followed him down a carpeted passage to a door at the end , a small room overlooking a regimented back garden with a substantial Swiss-type chalet in the middle of the lawn . |
| 4 | Daniel struggled but was no match for the two louts who , having kicked and beaten him , pushed him down a grassy bank towards the canal . |
| 5 | The Purple Hour was descending as the Robemaker thrust Nuadu Airgetlam before him down the final stretch of road that led to the grisly Workshops . |
| 6 | But stolid stonewalling makes for poor copy and dull viewing , and eventually they let him go , although even then a few of the younger and hungrier among them followed him down the wide staircase and out into Piazza Matteotti , hoping for a belated indiscretion . |
| 7 | There were plenty of other boys to follow him down the good physician 's route to Fitzwilliam Square . |
| 8 | What 's turn it over I mean it might start I du n no it let , let him down the other morning as well ! |
| 9 | He took possession of her hand with almost too much confidence , drawing her with him down the slippery slope of wet grass towards the waterside . |
| 10 | As Sister and Nurse Robins are swigging coffee with that drag Jones , I took him down the short cut through Eyes and shoved him into 15 . |
| 11 | In the eyes of Louis , his near-drowning had been an act of self-emasculation , a loss of face tumbling him down the social scale to a level little higher than a peon 's . |
| 12 | Harsh words led to action , and Haston despatched him down the public lavatory stairs . |
| 13 | I 've pursued him down the disappearing paths of my own psyche . |
| 14 | Some patients want no further contact with the would-be therapist after the initial assessment , or agree to see him only a few times . |
| 15 | Instead , as David Elsworth admits , ‘ with Gold Cup horses giving him only a few pounds , it is asking an awful lot . |
| 16 | It had taken him only a few moments to discover , from his wife 's tirade , that Hank 's book was not quite so innocent as he had imagined ; however , any book that made so much money was a good book , in his opinion , and he had defended Hank hotly . |
| 17 | It took him only a few weeks to realise that not all saddles hurt , but he never stopped being difficult in his mouth and was rarely eager to please . |
| 18 | Then he was up and levering the round boulder free , not listening to it crash down the mountain , doubting if the attackers would hear or see — and , if they did , whether they would be persuaded that it was his own body tumbling — but it was one extra little chance that cost him only a few seconds . |
| 19 | It took him only a few seconds to find the page he wanted . |
| 20 | Harrison moved out on the starboard wing , had his good look — it took him only a few seconds — returned and took the wheel again . |
| 21 | She had been talking to him only a few seconds before , but he was gone . |
| 22 | I remembered how I had walked with him only a few days before . |
| 23 | Bracewell , 29 , claimed the directors backed out of a promise to give him a two-year contract by offering him only a 12-month deal to stay . |
| 24 | Doctors gave him only a 50-50 chance of survival . |
| 25 | I heard him only a short while ago coming out of the bathroom . |
| 26 | Other methods can be used if it is desired to give him only an equitable interest in the land . |
| 27 | It also made him only the second man in history to score for both sides in a derby clash . |
| 28 | But it made him only the second Briton to conquer Everest without Oxygen equipment . |
| 29 | Another try this afternoon could make him only the second Englishman to score in all four internationals in a season ; COULD , because Dewi Morris , whose mobile scrum half play has done much to transform England this season season is also on course to match the feat Carston Catcheside of Percy Park achieved in Wakefield 's 1924 side . |
| 30 | Mr Reynolds was kept comfortable by lifting and moving him gently every 2 hours and giving him regular analgesia . |