Example sentences of "he [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His reddish-blond hair , slightly faded , evidently not clipped , was a little longer but still close to his head , already curling , giving him perhaps the youthful or angelic look of persons in Italian Renaissance paintings . |
| 2 | The English girl was efficient and brought him just the right touch of warmth . |
| 3 | We went to make coffee , the wretched little kitchen , and I thought , anyhow I could n't face up to living here with him just the domestic effort . |
| 4 | ‘ I mean it was merely a study of kinship , ’ he added , seeing before him now the outraged faces of his colleagues at his letting the side down by describing such work as ‘ nothing much , really ’ . |
| 5 | He spends all his pocket money on padlocks , and for a birthday treat for him today the red carpet was laid out for him at the Chubb Lock Factory in Wolverhampton . |
| 6 | He felt tired , slightly drunk and frightened ; if an assassin was hunting him then the dark runnels of Edinburgh at night would only provide fresh opportunities . |
| 7 | Mr Atkinson says he met President Bush just last September , and the President promised him then the full facts would come out . |
| 8 | Vincent 's conscience was telling him precisely the opposite , and at the top of its voice . |
| 9 | In a sense this was true , although Brian arid I did n't appreciate quite how detached Franky had become until we lived alone with him late the following year . |
| 10 | Thiercelin spoke to him again the following evening , when he reluctantly conceded that one of his colleagues could remember the man they were seeking . |
| 11 | At first , Ackroyd thought nothing about it , but he saw him again the following Saturday at about the same time . |
| 12 | She 'd once worried that when she saw him again the old feelings might come back , but she felt nothing . |
| 13 | The moment she encountered him again the old hostility would erupt and this feeling of awareness would vanish . |
| 14 | The poser being , of course , that she could not tell him either the true reason she was here , or even who she really was . |