Example sentences of "he [adv] [adv] [vb past] [to-vb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | He never left our shores and he only once ventured to cross the border into Scotland . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | And he just about managed to make out the three words uttered by Sheriff James Farrell : ‘ You are discharged . ’ |
| 9 | As he said , he not only had to learn the very complicated lines but also how to copy Coward 's abdominal breathing techniques . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | A few weeks after the opening of the play , he once more began to suffer from bronchitis . |
| 12 | But he honestly only wanted to defend his title with Williams . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Indeed , he probably even helped to draft the document ’ Britain 's New Deal in Europe ’ . |
| 15 | He then frantically tried to revive her before leaving her face down in a copse . |
| 16 | He then twice conspired to overthrow the junta , and is unofficially considered to head the paramilitary death squad , the White Warrior Union . |
| 17 | On 24 December 1662 Howard was elected a fellow of the Royal Society ; he almost immediately began to participate in its proceedings , taking a special interest in agrarian and technological matters . |
| 18 | During the strike Donald Trump , a New York real estate magnate , announced that he no longer wished to purchase Eastern 's shuttle services to Boston from New York and from Washington DC . |
| 19 | Even during the period of the " phoney war " he had fantasies of the house being bombed , and in June 1940 he asked Herbert Read to store in the country some of his books and clothes in order to prevent them from being destroyed in an air-raid.When on 7 September the " blitz " against London did begin , he decided that he no longer wished to stay in the capital . |
| 20 | He held onto his back as they leapt from shelf to shelf and soon he no longer had to shut his eyes as they flew through the air . |
| 21 | Hamilton 's death in 1895 brought the Headmaster a rise in Salary to 150 , as he no longer had to fund his predecessor 's pension . |
| 22 | Dr Neil had the baby upside-down and was smacking him to make him cry — having been born , he no longer seemed to want to survive in the harsh world outside his mother 's warm body . |
| 23 | Having shown the sudden , deep interest , how could Mungo now claim that he no longer wanted to visit the stable ? |
| 24 | But after August 23 he no longer wanted to continue ; the present was best forgotten as soon as it slipped into the past . |
| 25 | He no longer bothered to talk to her when she brought him his coffee . |
| 26 | As a child Vidor had hated the Military Academy at San Antonio and he very much wanted to make ‘ an honest war picture ’ that would correct the excessive jingoism of the normal Hollywood war film . |
| 27 | What a pity he never even seemed to notice she was there ! |
| 28 | ‘ He never even came to see me , never wrote . |
| 29 | Maggie began anxiously but he never even bothered to answer . |
| 30 | He never once tried to contact me . |