Example sentences of "he [vb -s] [adv] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is the difference between a candidate who performs inadequately , though he tackles quite difficult questions , and one who performs well though he tackles only specially selected easy questions , questions that do not for example raise any issue about linear or non-linear , progressive or retrogressive change ? |
| 2 | Answer : Levi has said he plays professionally only so that he can indulge his other interests . |
| 3 | I agree he plays well enough for Eire tho . |
| 4 | The dog barked furiously ( qualifying a verb ) ; The idea sounds all right ( adj ) ; He plays really well ( adv ) . |
| 5 | The dog barked furiously ( verb ) : the idea sounds all right ( adj ) ; He plays really well ( adv ) . |
| 6 | Who knows — if he plays really well we could sell him and have 4 million quid in the bank . |
| 7 | Herodotus has long been regarded as a mythographer as much as a historian , for he records not just the bare facts , but the multiple versions of events he has gathered from a variety of sources . |
| 8 | Rollins ' forte is the anecdote and the near-hysterical rant and , when he veers too far into the territory of the poet , the philosopher or the stand-up comedian , the results can be a wee bit naff . |
| 9 | He drifts slowly up into the air . |
| 10 | When he turns up back at the flat , he has a bunch of red gladioli . |
| 11 | If he turns up late he thinks it is funny . ’ |
| 12 | Thereupon he turns back irresolutely and returns to his house only to find , as a fresh disappointment , that his wife is not there . |
| 13 | He turns more fruitfully to plays , becomes writer in residence at the Royal Court , adapts Brecht for the RSC and Kafka for Radio 3 , turns out two screenplays which Stephen Frears films , is nominated for an Oscar for one of them , and finally succeeds , in his mid-thirties , in getting a novel published ( its adolescent predecessors have been burnt four years earlier ) . |
| 14 | I bet he turns out not to have been quite the hero he makes out . ’ |
| 15 | With his brigade of six , he turns out daily changing menus which include noisettes of lamb with herb mousse and lentils ; penne pasta with sun-dried tomatoes , olives and oregano ; and escalope of halibut with courgette ribbons . |
| 16 | He points out wryly that ‘ entrepreneur ’ is a French term and that there is no equivalent word in the English language . |
| 17 | He points out there is no evidence that Hunter was connected with the College before he was nominated an honorary member in March 1791 , and that he did not attend any meetings of the College before December 1791 . |
| 18 | As he points out there has been surprisingly little research in this area and what there is derives mostly from the sociology of education under the heading of teacher socialisation . |
| 19 | He realizes that they ca n't , people ca n't be guaranteed to do this and he points out there are four different motivations that people might have that conflict with the er moral motivations . |
| 20 | He points out there is VAT on television sets , satellite dishes and subscriptions . |
| 21 | He points out how for Smith , ‘ The similarity between the average Londoner or Berliner to-day , and the average ‘ primitive man ’ … is insisted on' , and quotes from Smith 's text sentiments which reverberate throughout Eliot 's own work : ‘ There is no innate tendency in man to be progressive . ’ |
| 22 | He flies down there in his own old but immaculate Morane-Saulnier Paris III jet , and loves every second of it , summing up the Paris as ‘ 300 knots , 30,000 feet , six people : they 're magic numbers ’ . |
| 23 | But Danish coach Richard Nielson said United can play Schmeichel — if he flies out straight after . |
| 24 | He goes straight up vertically from the North Pole . |
| 25 | It 's gon na be wonderful at nursery if he goes straight up to his teacher again . |
| 26 | And just a word about the goal scorers ; Martin Foyle got the goal today , that makes him well he was leading goal scorer , he goes slightly further ahead . |
| 27 | He goes away somewhere and when they find him , he says that he does n't know who he is , and that he ca n't remember anything . ’ |
| 28 | Well you know , in that case you 'll have to wait until he goes away somewhere for the evening . |
| 29 | checked with his radio , he goes alright then phoned back to the police station on his radio , he said it 's not stolen the owner 's now here he said , can you please get it moved ? |
| 30 | He goes alright then . |