Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rather looked like one of the comics on television who will always wear his khaki shorts halfway to his ankles . |
| 2 | He rather took to Bunny , but it was obvious the stage-manager was a crony of Potter 's and it was advisable , this early on , to leave well alone . |
| 3 | He rather thought of Kate as a country person . |
| 4 | We still refer to certain compounds as being ‘ hermetically sealed ’ , in reference to the touch of his magic caduceus which he latterly bestowed upon AESCULAPIUS , the god of healing . |
| 5 | As he kissed her again he slowly felt for the gusset of her panties , pulled them to one side and entered her expertly . |
| 6 | He slowly straightened to his full height and she realised he had been sitting on the bed leaning over her . |
| 7 | The fourth shot struck again in the chest , slamming Doyle hard against the wall , leaving a bloody smear as he slowly slipped to the floor , his eyes half closed , the breath wheezing from his lungs . |
| 8 | As he slowly undressed in his room , he heard her come snivelling up the stairs . |
| 9 | He deftly stepped to one side , the bear tore into the cabin . |
| 10 | He deftly felt along the arm . |
| 11 | He presumably went by his own codes on the packet . |
| 12 | The fifth case belonged to a different category : a gentleman named Thomas Arundell was given leave to demise a tenement and three yardlands which he presumably treated as an investment . |
| 13 | He presumably bought into it with his Foreign Office gratuity . |
| 14 | He was one of 4 youths who attacked jogger , Paul Lanighan because he accidently bumped into them in the street . |
| 15 | The thirty five year old man was set on by four youths after he accidently bumped into them . |
| 16 | On 2 December 1793 , having adopted the alias of Silas Tomkyn Comberbache , he secretly enlisted in the 15th Light Dragoons . |
| 17 | Mr Ward was arrested by the FBI in Washington on Thursday and charged with Theft Act offences relating to the £5.2m he secretly received from Guinness through an obscure offshore nominee company in May 1986 . |
| 18 | He vigorously defended against all comers the enormous expense of bringing La Scala to Scotland . |
| 19 | Well my my mother had five children with her previous husband and my father met my mother while this fella was ill and he eventually died with T B and my father married my mother and took on these five children i in , in South Wales . |
| 20 | To this end he eventually succeeded in rejecting ministers proposed by Abe and Watanabe , but did so only with the support of Takeshita and Ozawa . |
| 21 | But everything changed for him on 12 June 1989 when he eventually came to . |
| 22 | It was a natural thing for them to do so I did n't take any action — told them in no uncertain terms that this man was ill and he eventually came to and everyone was happy then . |
| 23 | He eventually came to Madeira where Zarco gave him the large area of fertile land around Madalena do Mar . |
| 24 | He eventually came to a kind of theatre , which he also knew was Mandru 's morning room , expanded to vast proportion . |
| 25 | When he eventually embarked to be rowed out to the ship , ‘ it blew up just before he reached her , it appears that , if he had left the shore a few minutes sooner , he must have perished with the rest on board ’ |
| 26 | After the horse was bedded down it was time for Sirrell to celebrate properly , and most of Nantgaredig turned up to assist : he eventually got to bed at 3 a.m . |
| 27 | He took it , and after turning restlessly for some time , he eventually fell into a deep , heavy sleep . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Taking precipitously to his heels and hurriedly joining the Coldstream Guards , he eventually settled in East Anglia , where he married and where his literary son George was born in 1803 . |
| 30 | He eventually settled in Paris and died at the early age of 45 , in 1792 . |