Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rather relished the idea of secret investigations . |
| 2 | But Coleridge found that he rather enjoyed the rolling of the deck , and held long and facetious conversations with a talkative fellow passenger . |
| 3 | Then he rather undercut the room 's prim pity for him by roaring with laughter . |
| 4 | Besides , he rather liked the uniforms . |
| 5 | He did not feel that he would want to return to university , so he decided to apply for an unclassed ‘ War Honours ’ degree — ‘ probably not worth the paper it 's written on ’ , but perhaps enough to get him started in some profession , such as colonial service or , possibly , journalism ; he rather liked the idea of becoming a parliamentary correspondent for a newspaper . |
| 6 | Jack had been to tea at Tina 's house several times already and he rather liked the estate 's atmosphere , which was friendly and rackety , despite the fact that most of the inhabitants were out of work . |
| 7 | Besides , he rather liked the idea of a well-paid break in Japan . |
| 8 | He vastly enriched the world by his inventions . |
| 9 | He courageously liberalised the economy , with both painful and fruitful results . |
| 10 | His Lordship reached the conclusion that no evidence was not a jurisdictional defect because he expressly adopted the limited concept of review adumbrated above . |
| 11 | This prompted an unusually animated argument between counsel and the judge , who was clearly outraged at what he expressly called the crass incompetence of the Crown Prosecution Service in serving and making part of the prosecution case a witness they knew would support the defendant and then seeking to discontinue when predictably he did just that . |
| 12 | He slowly imagines the character , moulds her into shape , and then — probably the last thing of all — pops a pair of glass eyes into those empty sockets . |
| 13 | He slowly lifted the hand which had been clutching his , opened it and very gently implanted a kiss on its palm , and laughed when she gasped at the caress . |
| 14 | To her horror he slowly turned the canoe out into the lake instead of in to shore . |
| 15 | When he had finished his tea , he slowly climbed the staircase . |
| 16 | Then , glancing quickly at Jem , he slowly climbed the stairs , feeling his bruised stomach muscles protest with every step . |
| 17 | In the ten Ives songs which he provides as fill-up he deftly avoids the obvious pitfalls in writing which is only parodistic in part , whether in the overtly sentimental fragments or the rousing songs like The Circus Band and the patriotic First World War song , He is there ! . |
| 18 | As Merrill shook her head he deftly folded the typed sheets , replaced them in the envelope and handed it to her . |
| 19 | With relief she saw McGee descend to her rescue and she slipped into the background as he deftly took the Bishop 's coat . |
| 20 | He had taken his glasses off now and pulled his T-shirt up over his head , revealing that manly torso of perfect proportions , over which he deftly fastened the frilled silk shirt , and tucked it into his jeans . |
| 21 | ‘ Where are you from , Doctor ? ’ he deftly turned the conversation . |
| 22 | For a start , he presumably felt the same way . |
| 23 | But he had provided a double failsafe mechanism for himself in case he accidently pressed the wrong key while accessing the code . |
| 24 | Were his readers meant to conclude that the corrupt strategy of the Somali policeman was quite acceptable because he thereby produced the ‘ correct ’ election result ? |
| 25 | He thereby puts the patient in a position to make a decision which is informed . |
| 26 | One of the satisfactions , at the secular level , of which he keenly felt the lack was in the gastronomic sphere . |
| 27 | Instead , he secretly married the daughter of Lord Howard of Effingham . |
| 28 | Where the needs of discourse or the story require more specific information then a modifier is used : ‘ the boy ’ becomes ‘ the small fat boy ’ or ‘ he obtains the ticket ’ becomes ‘ he secretly obtains the ticket ’ . |
| 29 | There were several contemporary examples of similar patriarchal claims by the archbishops of Hamburg , Lyons , and Milan ; Lanfranc may have been inspired by these examples when he vigorously supported the Canterbury claim to patriarchal authority over the whole of the British Isles . |
| 30 | Once he vigorously defended the CAP , now he is dismantling it . |