Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With his gaze locked on hers , he slowly began to undo the buttons of his shirt . |
| 2 | Then he slowly began to open the staircase door . |
| 3 | I tell the DI why ; I tell him about two more betrayals ; about the commanding officer who had let men die to cover up his own inadequacy ( or at least Andy believed he had , which was all that mattered ) , and I tell him about the locum doctor who could n't be bothered to attend a patient and then , when he eventually did pay a visit , just assumed her pain was something trivial . |
| 4 | He eventually decided to take the latest letter round to the proper 27 The Grove . |
| 5 | Over the last weekend , he single-handedly managed to create a 3-4 point drop in his own party 's support , with a knock-on effect against Labour . |
| 6 | But he rarely had to spend a lunchtime without a game . |
| 7 | He spoke on the evils of race and colour prejudice and he rarely failed to mention the issue of slavery . |
| 8 | He obviously meant to have the land that was being auctioned , and when he set his sights on something Luther Reynolds usually got his way . |
| 9 | He obviously meant to milk the situation for all he was worth … |
| 10 | In spite of the strangeness of Eliot 's behaviour , however , few people begrudged him the happiness which in personal relations he had never experienced before : " He obviously needed to have a happy marriage , " Valerie Eliot said on a later occasion , " He could n't die until he had had it " . |
| 11 | He was reluctant , because he believed that he personally had ejected the Shah and that his standing was now so great that he could face down Khomeini alone . |
| 12 | He only had to remember the day after Dobson 's resignation . |
| 13 | And he only had to wait a couple of erm points left on his licence so if I 'd taken the dangerous thriving or something he could have lost his licence but erm that 's besides the point . |
| 14 | The extension of the offence to include obtaining possession or control will have the result that if Kilham , although pretending that he only wanted to borrow the horse , had in fact intended to deprive the owner permanently , he would be guilty under the clause , because he obtained possession of the horse . |
| 15 | He tearfully said he only wanted to give the innocent insurance agent a ‘ headache ’ and wept so much in court that police branded him the ‘ cry-baby killer ’ . |
| 16 | Patrick knew that he only intended to lag the putt up close , but as so often when a player does that the ball ran exactly along the line he had chosen , curved left as it ended its run and plopped neatly into the hole . |
| 17 | England team manager Micky Stewart fuelled the controversy at the end of the Cornhill Test series when he pointedly refused to clear the Pakistan bowlers over their methods of making the ball swing . |
| 18 | I was convinced he was about to do the same to me , when he suddenly appeared to notice the tent for the first time , shied away and crashed off into the trees . |
| 19 | as if he suddenly wanted to return the girls ' favour on this Monaghan Day , he spoke to them openly about the war for the first time in their lives . |
| 20 | He suddenly risked losing the crowning glory of a lifetime 's secret endeavour to an unknown malarial " fly-catcher " as the humble naturalist-explorers were known . |
| 21 | In his testimony to Congress in July 1987 — which had been given under immunity and was , therefore , inadmissible at his trial — Poindexter had said that he alone had authorized the Iran-contra operation and that Reagan had known nothing of it [ see pp. 35828-29 ] . |
| 22 | He adamantly denied sending the other knives . |
| 23 | He just had to get the Shah 's butt outta there . " |
| 24 | He just said leave the Bird 's Eye pies and start your trussing . |
| 25 | No , I do n't hate Romeo , but he was my friend and he just wanted to keep the peace . |
| 26 | And he just wanted to get the heat in so he kept his other hand round about it . |
| 27 | He just happened to have a pint of Guinness with a perfect head on it in his pocket . |
| 28 | Erm , he finally had to shut the adult school , not because the prisoners were n't interested in in attending any more , but because the prison officers and the governor were n't able to provide the man-power to cover the existence of that class . |
| 29 | And I said he finally managed to pluck the guts up to tell me last , plucked the courage up to tell me last night and Andy 's eyes light up and I just said erm and I said |
| 30 | He also admits to having a streak of the trainspotter in him , and it took three days ploughing through his extensive record collection before he finally managed to produce a top ten . |