Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides , he rather liked her boozy self-confidence — and her style of interior decoration . |
| 2 | ‘ Oh , no ? ’ he drawled mockingly as he slowly lowered his dark head towards her . |
| 3 | Unfortunately , his favourite pastime was kidnapping innocent virgins , holding them prisoner in his cave while he presumably had his wicked way with them , and then lowering them sixty metres down to waiting boats to be sold into slavery … ’ |
| 4 | It seems to imply , for one thing , that if someone has very strong preferences about what happens beyond his own person he thereby renders it important that certain things be done or left undone which have little or nothing to do with his personal life . |
| 5 | He eventually realised his only chance of survival was to make his own way down the peak . |
| 6 | She fought him tooth and nail for a good 20 minutes , screaming at the top of her voice , until he eventually beat her senseless and killed her . |
| 7 | He rarely saw her naked , which was a relief to him . |
| 8 | But he rarely wears anything other than jeans and a T-shirt whatever the occasion . |
| 9 | But he rarely wears anything other than jeans and a T-shirt whatever the occasion . |
| 10 | His marriage has broken up , he rarely sees his teenage daughter and he faces a bleak future . |
| 11 | He entirely lost his Scottish accent and , after theological college and ordination , preferment had been fast . |
| 12 | He merely grunted something incomprehensible and turned on his heel , leaving her — as always — to follow . |
| 13 | And when she asked he merely gave his quirky smile . |
| 14 | He noted that two shirts were warmer than one overcoat , and he obviously enjoyed his open air sessions on the clinic rounds in the College yard . |
| 15 | He obviously loved his young cousin very much . |
| 16 | Reaching out he gently touched her pallid face . |
| 17 | Grinning , he gently rubbed his swollen nose , newly broken a fourth time . |
| 18 | Roy Bailey made his Palace debut at the age of just 17 years , but he only became our regular goalkeeper after his spell of National Service had ended early in 1953 , and then it soon became clear that Roy was a goalkeeper of the highest quality , even though he was performing in a Palace side that was almost invariably struggling . |
| 19 | He only reveals his true feelings when he throws his flower into Mary Vetsera 's grave just before the curtain falls . |
| 20 | drip , so he gingerly raised his stiff right arm , which was heavily strapped from shoulder to wrist , and began to explore the extent of his body and head injuries as best he could . |
| 21 | He suddenly relaxed his tight grip and turned away . |
| 22 | I fear that he greatly over-estimated our combined literary and administrative abilities . |
| 23 | He greatly admired his clever mother , from whom he inherited a love of poetry . |
| 24 | Helen , too , was frequently informed of his over-readiness to fall in love with an attractive outward appearance , even as he constantly restated his heavy dependence upon his engrossed love for her : |
| 25 | It left him in a jealous rage and he wrongly accused his 47-year-old wife of having an affair . |
| 26 | Sadly their honeymoon was a short one as Killigrew had , so , he sorrowfully informed his new bride , to hasten to Exeter , where he was to sit on the bench in the City 's courts . |
| 27 | Turning to Egor he requests more body parts and , to accentuate the urgency required , he physically hurls our hunchbacked hero from the top of his castle into the graveyard below where the game begins . |
| 28 | Now he just wrenched it open . |
| 29 | Perhaps he just made her nervous . |
| 30 | But the real stormer from these sessions is a tune called ‘ Hittin' The Bottle Again ’ , in which he just strokes his National Steel and sings this sad , lovely song about dereliction and bar-hopping . |