Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Visits to Exeter he made as rarely as possible . |
| 2 | He made as swiftly as he could for the foyer . |
| 3 | He said you know , cos he lived as cheaply as he could while he was out there and |
| 4 | His parents kept it spick and span , but when they died , he lived there alone until it went to rack and ruin . |
| 5 | He cared as much as I do . |
| 6 | Between 1947 and 1952 he produced no less than 300 short films , many of them for the Canadian Government , and on these merits he was appointed Director of Outside Broadcasts , Features and Documentaries with the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in 1952 . |
| 7 | ‘ You were afraid then ? ’ he asked as softly as the noise of the plane allowed . |
| 8 | ‘ What shall we do this afternoon ? ’ he asked as casually as if they spent all their Wednesday afternoons together . |
| 9 | He got as far as the lawn , just out there , and then he stopped and stood , seemingly just staring at the house . |
| 10 | He got as far as lifting his head and getting one shoulder off the seat , but then collapsed back onto the leather , and let his eyes close . |
| 11 | He got as far as twelve , then he looked puzzled . |
| 12 | He got as far as Rugby before he was caught . |
| 13 | He straightened up easily as he spoke , and the lidded gaze moved laconically down over the outline of her body beneath the thin bedcover . |
| 14 | In the coalfields he read as avidly as ever , including in his reading books about the French revolution by Michelet and others . |
| 15 | He saw himself as a buffoon with nasty reserves of observation , a man with goonish spectacles clamped round his ears and perfidy in his guts , and he felt so appalled by his mistrust of an old friend who must surely be taken for an ally that he tried as fast as possible to invent some headway on the project about Berlin . |
| 16 | It finished ( as a bowler ) the former Derbyshire player , Fred Swarbrook , who gave up the unequal struggle when , peering frantically around to see where a delivery had gone , he found out only when the ball dropped out of the stratosphere and hit him on top of the head . |
| 17 | She had few friends to whom he objected as strongly as Bridget . |
| 18 | He moved on slowly until he reached one of the roads into the city . |
| 19 | He was really playing great tennis , ’ McEnroe conceded , ‘ I did n't realise he moved as well as he did . |
| 20 | He moved as quietly as he could . |
| 21 | He moved as quietly as he could towards the connecting door , grasped the handle and with a single movement flung the door open . |
| 22 | He moved as quickly as a squirrel , half-falling from knot to knot . |
| 23 | He stopped as abruptly as he had begun . |
| 24 | He stopped as abruptly as she had done . |
| 25 | He trembled as intensely as a fly whirs its wings , and stopped talking . |
| 26 | Mrs Pouncey is at present editing his diaries , drawing attention to entries such as one for October 1949 , when , between 7.17 am and 12.25 pm he visited no less than twelve Roman churches , certainly with the intense concentration he devoted to each of the many visits they made to Italy together . |
| 27 | Although Ronnie Allen was only 5ft 8 inches tall , he played equally effectively as centre-forward or at outside-right , and he had appeared in both positions for England during his time with West Bromwich Albion . |
| 28 | Angel had never had a lesson ; he played as naturally as he walked . |
| 29 | Foinavon passed the post with his ears pricked and that night he ate up just as usual . |
| 30 | ‘ I am the Conservatives ’ Jeremy Irons , ’ he murmured as apologetically as if he were standing at the rostrum with a brand new Oscar . |