Example sentences of "he [adv] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Detective Inspector Anderson , who was in charge of the case , rushed his men to the house only to find the bird had flown , luckily for him only as far as Caversham . |
| 2 | She rather patronized him , but he was impervious to that ; it amused him — he was not unsubtle , Mr James says , but did n't bother to show it — he was amused by her American independence which served him just as well as Italian docility . |
| 3 | When Dad joined us Albert greeted him just as pleasantly as he had me , and I thought at least they 're all happy this morning . |
| 4 | The knowledge that the larger margin was there for the taking , if you were bold enough to seize it , exercised him as much now as it had done back in 1973 . |
| 5 | As it was he had to find his own way out of an embrace involving him far more seriously than he intended . |
| 6 | There were families and organisations out there which had sworn to kill him far less cleanly than the KGB would , and he had learned to live with that . |
| 7 | I felt and slid my arms under Harry 's and with my feet slipping on the muddy bottom yanked him upwards as fiercely as I could and found him still stuck and yanked again twice more with increasing desperation until finally whatever had been holding him released its grasp and he came shooting to the surface , only to begin falling sluggishly back again as a dead weight . |
| 8 | Rose shared those sort of days with him even more extravagantly than if the days had been her own . |
| 9 | But as he did the wind caught at him even more mightily than before ; there was the sense of commotion and movement in the air and out of the darkness behind him came a terrible crack , a heave and a bang and whoosh such as he had never heard in his life . |
| 10 | I pushed him again as hard as I could and ran for the door . |