Example sentences of "he [adv] [adv] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had a confused impression of coming into the dining room while the man was there and hearing him rather grudgingly assess the value of the glass cabinet . |
| 2 | Francis believes he could become Alan Shearer 's partner in the England side , and rated him highly enough to agree a new , four-year contract in the summer worth £4,000 a week . |
| 3 | 1421–2 finds him once more using a dialogue convention to describe his woes , and it is now evident that there have been serious developments in the interim . |
| 4 | He was closer to William Rogers , Nixon 's first secretary of state , then to Henry Kissinger , though the press showed him more frequently embracing the latter . |
| 5 | He leaned down and took Piper by the shirtfront , hauling him upright then turning the man and running him backwards across the room . |
| 6 | He 's dead , they all go over him fast then kill the bastard they go |
| 7 | He waited two minutes to focus his thoughts , threw back the duvet — its stale scent reminding him yet again to visit the launderette soon — and staggered into the bathroom . |
| 8 | Apparently preferring silence to chatter , in company he would let the froth bubble around him yet then produce a wry , always shrewd , comment . |
| 9 | The Foreign Office advised him very strongly to take no part in the transaction , but this was in fact an encouragement . |
| 10 | He rather hauntingly characterises the life of the contemplative as a God-hunt and compares those hounds who see the hare and never weary of the chase until they have their quarry with those who run simply because others in the pack do so . |
| 11 | When he rather reluctantly accepted the suggestion of another Sibelius score , En Saga , he found that ‘ the music suggested rather a different story ’ . |
| 12 | He thereby substantially improved the lethal effect of attack . |
| 13 | He felt awkward and so he mostly just took the piss out of it to get through . |
| 14 | He apparently once told the Shah that the Russians did not count . |
| 15 | He addressed a crowd of his civilian supporters at Baabda on Oct. 12 , when he only narrowly escaped an assassination attempt . |
| 16 | Throwing himself to his right , he only just avoided the murderous flying dragon-stamp kick aimed at his face . |
| 17 | He only just glimpsed the Stones ' garage door sliding to a close , a quick , difficult movement to observe in the darkness , a slight changing of shadows that caught Doyle 's eagle eyes . |
| 18 | Mr Crump could not have wished for better and yet he was not as responsive as Hope had expected : indeed he only barely acknowledged the compliment . |
| 19 | They make long and elegant speeches before Pandarus leads them to a chamber where they can be alone for a night ; but their words seem superficial : it is as if Rosaline had agreed to love Romeo , and he only ever experienced the satisfaction of his sexual appetite . |
| 20 | But he only ever throws the one egg . |
| 21 | He only ever puts the gas on half-way to the first mark on the knob and in the winter keeps the central heating down to sixty degrees : " I sit with the blanket round me . " |
| 22 | If he so mortally hated the father , living and dead , how can we trust his indulgence with the boy ? |
| 23 | Was it because he had lost his own parents during his teens that he so desperately wanted a family ? |
| 24 | It is unclear why he so suddenly dropped the idea that he first pushed forward with some vigour . |
| 25 | Karelius talked mainly with Moreau , reflecting on the irony that he so often found the French easier to talk to than Austrians . |
| 26 | I suppose I was defending a monarchy that had in the past seen some unsuitable sovereigns , while he somewhat deftly applied the same argument to unsatisfactory prime ministers . |
| 27 | Indeed , it could well be argued that He alone truly fits the description ‘ God ’ . |
| 28 | He just about takes the biscuit . |
| 29 | I could n't believe that he just about had the audacity to phone this guy up . |
| 30 | He nevertheless still saw a need for such divisions being accompanied by new collective and community-based institutions . |