Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Haldane 's personal convictions and family connections caused him quickly to assume a prominent role on the more extreme wing of Anglican Evangelicalism . |
| 2 | His pioneering interest in Tiepolo led him also to gather a large collection of his drawings , which filled twelve albums . |
| 3 | She watched him nonchalantly swinging a vicious-looking little whip , and feared it would be a part of his interrogation technique . |
| 4 | John Coffin walked away , marvelling at the strangeness of life which made him now mourn a petty criminal whom he had not liked and whom no one had appeared to love , and who might , just possibly , have also poisoned three people . |
| 5 | Let him get together all the composers in Munich , let him even summon a few from Italy , France , Germany , England and Spain . |
| 6 | Haavikko closed the door behind him then gave a small shudder , staring at the tiny slip of plastic in his hand . |
| 7 | Similarly , it is not possible for him either to give a hard-and-fast definition of Truth . |
| 8 | There were times , though , when he rather hoped a working-class bloke would take a shine to his wife and beat the hell out of her . |
| 9 | But lucky Craig Harris escaped with bruises and minor burns after being thrown into the air as he accidently touched a live wire attached to overhead power cables . |
| 10 | He eventually formed a religious group , the Royal Church of Nagriamel , before declaring a provisional government on Espiritu Santo on May 29 , 1980 , the eve of Vanuatu 's independence . |
| 11 | On his father 's death in 1621 he was adopted by his uncle John Browne , a merchant tailor , from whom he eventually inherited a substantial fortune . |
| 12 | Although ‘ Milton and Wordsworth exalted me ’ , he eventually buys a complete Byron for two shillings and reads Childe Harold . |
| 13 | Meanwhile in 1772 the Royal Botanic Garden at Kew engaged its first professional plant collector , Francis Masson , and packed him off to South Africa from where he duly introduced a great number of exotic plants , at least two of which , Zantedeschia erathiopica and Amaryllis belladonna , are still grown in Trust gardens in warmer areas to this day . |
| 14 | If the innocent party purports to " accept " such performance , he effectively accepts a new contract . |
| 15 | " Thank you , " I said confidently , and glared at the man when he discreetly placed a huge jug of iced water at my elbow . |
| 16 | If this is still the case next May he apparently wins a Swiss watch from The Sun in honour of the acheivement ! |
| 17 | The boy was so far from being ill-used or closely confined that he apparently lived a normal life , at least within the walls , going and coming much as he pleased , and eating in hall like a member of the household . |
| 18 | Next day , when the mob was destroying the Catholic chapel in Moorfields , he apparently turned a deaf ear to requests for orders from the soldiers and the fire officers in attendance ; and when the rioters ' work was done he uttered the mildest of rebukes : ‘ That 's pretty well , gentlemen , for one day ; I hope you will now go to your own homes . ’ |
| 19 | But Neath are backing the player 's insistence that he merely took a cold remedy . |
| 20 | In any event he had little time to give careful immediate consideration to the letter ; he merely wrote a short reply pressing Balfour to reconsider his position . |
| 21 | But his reaction was difficult to define because he merely gave a small shrug and , taking Lucy 's hand , he led her back along the path , where the darkness continued to be broken by the moon 's rays filtering through the trees . |
| 22 | He obviously had a detailed account of the origins of Rome . |
| 23 | He obviously found a ready-made son too . ’ |
| 24 | He impatiently plants a swift kiss on my cheek and … and is already gone . |
| 25 | A juror asked what the comforts were , for he only saw a little straw in the corner of the room , the windows of which were broken . |
| 26 | ‘ He only said a few words ’ Maxim said slowly trying to remember . |
| 27 | The church warden gave me sizes but did not ask for reproduction pieces and anyway , he only had a poor and partial photograph . |
| 28 | but they can come and go , I mean the year four they lost two teachers in the last two weeks cos their husbands got other jobs and the contracts were just terminated and , so it 's quite a , a moveable circle of people , er , but just , they have actually sacked one of the lads that came out with us , they wo n't be renewing his contract next year , he only had a two year contract |
| 29 | He captured the citadel but he only had a few troops with him and it was clear he could n't hold it for long , so he pushed on east past Excideuil into the Limousin , driving straight into the heartland of the rebel cause and devastating the country as he went . |
| 30 | He gunned the engine when he only had a few metres to go , felt the Jeep claw at the hard ground and hurtle forward . |