Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is actually , it makes him feel rather sad erm and also rather funny , and therefore , he rather comes over a rather pathetic creature . |
| 2 | Indeed , it was the man at the opposite end of the park , Sieb Dykstra , who had the busier afternoon as he produced three crucial saves , the middle one — he was backpedalling as he acrobatically tipped over a superb Pat McGinlay shot — being the pick of the bunch . |
| 3 | He eventually came to a kind of theatre , which he also knew was Mandru 's morning room , expanded to vast proportion . |
| 4 | He took it , and after turning restlessly for some time , he eventually fell into a deep , heavy sleep . |
| 5 | This might throw light on his uncomplimentary nickname too , and on how , as the charter S 933 of 1014 reveals , " the attacks and plunderings of the evil Danes " gave him possession of a Dorset estate of the church of Sherborne , which he eventually sold for a great price in gold and silver to a friend of the monks , who returned it to them . |
| 6 | He eventually squeezed through a 12-inch gap in his shattered rear windscreen , and crawled up the bank in agony to raise the alarm . |
| 7 | His choice had more than its share of steps and when he eventually arrived on a pleasant terrace overlooking the harbour , a pounding in his chest reminded him once more that he was middle-aged . |
| 8 | He eventually graduated as a bachelor of astrophysics at London University . |
| 9 | The former world champion had saved four match points in rallying from 2–5 in the fourth set , which he eventually won on a tie-break , before winning the fifth set 6–0 but he had little to offer in the doubles , when he and Eric Jelen were beaten in straight sets . |
| 10 | Stevenson readily admits that his business talents did not blossom early — ‘ I was a most inept apprentice , ’ he says — but he successfully qualified as a CA and joined a subsidiary of the British Steel Corporation . |
| 11 | They were also the ones he most admired in a detective : intelligence , courage , discretion and common sense . |
| 12 | Midst all this , Atherton , who had fought desperately hard for almost 4½ hours , made an allowable mistake when he wearily felt for a rare straightish and wider ball from Waqar . |
| 13 | He rarely went for a tightframed shot , but instead honed in on whatever it was the subject had and made them give him more . |
| 14 | In fact Arieti 's coverage of the latter is very cursory and he swiftly shifts to a discussion of examples of , to use Pickering 's term , ‘ creative malady ’ ; such as Proust 's asthma and Darwin ‘ s psychosomatic palpitations — examples that are interesting in themselves but largely irrelevant to the creativity/psychosis debate . |
| 15 | Isambard had halted and turned in the passage , frowning a little , in two minds whether to go back to him , but in the end he did not ; he merely waited for a little while , listening until the torrent of defiance had grown strangely shaken and softened with moments of entreaty . |
| 16 | I tried to stare my dislike into him but I must have been unsuccessful for he merely said with a primitive accent : ‘ Good in auto , yes ? ’ and grinned . |
| 17 | He merely retreated to a defensive , defiant position . |
| 18 | A typical example — and there are many of these — was when he patiently sat through a high level Air Ministry conference listening to the Mosquito being castigated for its poor night flying qualities ( because of the glare from the exhausts ) , and Boscombe Down recommended that it should never be flown at night , the chairman , as an afterthought , suggested Bennett contribute his views : " I wish someone hid told me about all these faults ' , he replied , " because I have been flying the Masse on OBOE night trials with excellent results " . |
| 19 | But he only had about a couple of hours to do it in — after I 'd rung from Hannover . |
| 20 | died as , whatever and they went to his eldest brother he said he had to burn all because he only lived in a small flat , he and his wife and two children and they 'd got no room for them to so he had to burn them . |
| 21 | You know he only went to he only went for a pee you know what I mean that cramming five pound and ten pound deals at him , and he 's going , No you can , you know . |
| 22 | he only went about a week and then he closed . |
| 23 | The truth is that he only races as a personal challenge , or for the pure enjoyment of running . |
| 24 | He only hesitated for a moment before something about the strained tension on her face made his mind up . |
| 25 | In this he perhaps sounds like a member of a Leavisite ‘ reverent-openness-before-life ’ school , but his concept of ostranenie already has a certain edge through being defined in opposition to the habitual . |
| 26 | So he suddenly came to a halt at the bottom of this stairs as it turned the corner , with the bottom of the wardrobe rammed into his chest , pinning him to the wall . |
| 27 | He was puzzled for a moment , then he suddenly remembered with a slight feeling of shock . |
| 28 | Nothing further is known of him beyond a minor land acquisition in 1538 until , in 1540 , he suddenly emerged as a gentleman of Henry VIII 's privy chamber , a post he was to retain under the young Edward . |
| 29 | From being a painfully shy , diffident recluse , he suddenly metamorphosed into a garrulous and sometimes painfully overbearing extrovert . |
| 30 | The exertions of the first five miles when he had thought the Dragoons might burst from behind every hedgerow or farmhouse had exhausted both the Major and his horse , so once he felt safe he sensibly slowed to a contemplative and restoring walk . |