Example sentences of "he [adv] [adv] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So OK , without too much effort she had offended Ven Gajdusek , it seemed , but he most definitely had said he would think about giving her the interview ! |
| 2 | He never left our shores and he only once ventured to cross the border into Scotland . |
| 3 | Still the reality he so urgently wanted to communicate seemed to escape him , as if he was distracted by a voice whispering in his ear of what might have been , if only Kee had said yes . |
| 4 | The functionalist method which he so strenuously championed amounted , in fact , to little more than acknowledging that every custom or institution , however strange and bizarre , served some contemporary purpose . |
| 5 | I asked him why he so dearly wished to walk in a street as dank as a sewer , and to play by the waters of an oily , rat-infested canal , when we had the exquisite reaches of the Seine at hand , and the gardens of his school friends . |
| 6 | Sometimes I understood a few words or phrases ( ‘ Japaner nicht gut ’ , ‘ Demokratie ’ ) but on the whole it was a hopeless conversation just because he so badly wanted to get his meaning across to me . |
| 7 | North , the zealous visionary , besotted by his lone struggle against Communism , was so blinded by right-wing hubris that he saw nothing wrong in breaking the laws of the country he so devoutly wished to defend . |
| 8 | Tom laughed , of course , and she did n't know if she was pleased or angered that he so often seemed to find her so amusing . |
| 9 | I was surprised that he so eagerly sought to confront me . |
| 10 | Miguelito , on the other hand , had gained face the closer the men came to action — perhaps because he so obviously enjoyed killing , Trent thought as he watched Miguelito thumbnail more cocaine into his nostrils . |
| 11 | For all his long hair , bandeau and earrings which made him look like a weedy Viking , Terry Gill was a very ordinary young man , and pathetic ; pathetic because he so obviously wanted to amount to something and had no idea what . |
| 12 | And he just about managed to make out the three words uttered by Sheriff James Farrell : ‘ You are discharged . ’ |
| 13 | Oh , so he just like built did he ? |
| 14 | But he 's , he just really has to get in touch with one of them and tell them the prices . |
| 15 | He wo n't sleep during the day and he just never gets worn out . |
| 16 | ‘ No , he wasn't. — He just never intended marring her , that 's all . |
| 17 | As he said , he not only had to learn the very complicated lines but also how to copy Coward 's abdominal breathing techniques . |
| 18 | This week just past he not only failed to anticipate the row , he then reacted too slowly to it . |
| 19 | Dwyer told the players how he wanted to win the two-match series against Scotland and how he not only wanted to reclaim the Bledisloe Cup from the All Blacks but complete Australia 's first ever 3–0 series whitewash . |
| 20 | In seeking to solve this second problem of semantic exactitude , he not only fails to solve the problem of making meanings plain to the public but actually makes that problem a good deal more complex . |
| 21 | Minton , perceiving Cornish 's shyness , made him answer most of the questions and listened attentively to his replies , thereby forcing Cornish through the shyness barrier , an experience he ever afterwards felt stood him in good stead . |
| 22 | Oh met twenty six years ago , he still exactly hurry did he ? |
| 23 | Yet , he still somehow manages to listen to virtually everything that 's sent in and retain the same enthusiasm for music that has been with him through his 23 years at Radio 1 . |
| 24 | Yet , he still somehow manages to listen to virtually everything that 's sent in and retain the same enthusiasm for music that has been with him through his 23 years at Radio 1 . |
| 25 | He hardly ever forgets to bring anything I might want . |
| 26 | He hardly ever stays to talk the way he used to . |
| 27 | After Edward 's triumph at Boroughbridge in 1322 he once again sought to levy one man from each vill for service in Scotland , with the vill this time paying the wages for forty days . |
| 28 | A few weeks after the opening of the play , he once more began to suffer from bronchitis . |
| 29 | But he honestly only wanted to defend his title with Williams . |
| 30 | He also always managed to see the good side of a person , and would defend them as he saw fit ( ie Rodolpho ) which shows a very christian type of behaviour . |