Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could make it a fairy-tale instead , if I wanted to , Anyway , It 's the capital of the empire ; a courtier starts a liaison with one of the princesses ; the demands she and the impersonate on his time get to be too much , so he secretly has an android made to impersonate him at the endless court rituals and boring receptions ; nobody notices . |
| 2 | he vigorously used an ancient notion of personal worth as resting in an original standard substance , and variation as introduced by society . |
| 3 | When he eventually became an overnight star after fourteen years of hard labour in Hollywood , the seekers of his past came knocking on the doors of his tutors and former friends . |
| 4 | He badly wanted an army son . |
| 5 | In addition to his seven victories this year , Trevino has claimed seven runner-up spots and he duly added an eighth at Dorado . |
| 6 | When Gundovald first arrived in Gaul he apparently had an considerable quantity of treasure with him , which must suggest that he initially had the backing of the Byzantine emperor , whose concerns about the Lombards in Italy may well have stretched to a desire to see a close ally established in Francia . |
| 7 | He apparently showed an interest in Wetherby on Thursday night — pointed him out to Meryl Armitage and asked his name . |
| 8 | He obviously desired an immediate reply but nothing has come to light to suggest that there was one , favourable or otherwise . |
| 9 | Soon after he came to power he personally led an expedition against the Shanqalla negroes on the Sudan border , and my father affirmed that the slaughter there must have satisfied for a time even his craving for blood . |
| 10 | Dale beat second-placed Burnley Bank Hall 3-1 and Wilson , though he only played an hour , turned in a splendid defensive performance , much to the delight of joint bosses Roy Grundy and Tommy Lawson . |
| 11 | He also wore uniform but explained that he only held an honorary rank . |
| 12 | But it may be doubted whether he necessarily commits an offence under section 4 should he fail to do so . |
| 13 | I mean sexy little telephone calls between he who will be king and his , is she a mistress , is she a girlfriend , is she merely a friend , but at any event she 's married and her husband 's in the next bedroom as far as we can gather , you know erm do those kind of conversations and would , I mean maybe it 's important to sort of say and Anne probably has this , but Peter might not , I mean when I grew up the Royal Family were a cert sort of image and you might have known about George the Third who was mad , I mean who else was brought up George the Third was mad and Geor an and this guy was a , a drunk and this guy was a a womaniser , this guy was this , but Victoria you know mourned for sixty years or whatever it was , but this Royal Family , I E the , the Royal Family with which I grew up and Anne did were really sweet nice little Windsors who behaved themselves and that was what was , went into our psychic and there was the odd crack about Phil the Great who 's the Queen 's husband , you know and how he perhaps had an eye for the ladies , but there was never any photographs of him being or any evidence that it might have gone further than that particular and basically there was , that any , there was the fact that he was a sailor when he married the Queen anyway so all sailors are like that are n't they ! |
| 14 | The Hawk gains or discards height so freely he suddenly becomes an almost invisible spot , light grey above the grey sea . |
| 15 | As Zen came through the door he suddenly saw an opening and lunged forward , so that for the next thirty seconds or so he was unable to reply to his visitor 's question . |
| 16 | He suddenly had an idea , and taking the megaphone from the chairman , and wincing at the soggy mouthpiece , he summoned the last of his voice from his diaphragm and sang to the sea of caps and hats , a Harry Lauder music hall song : |
| 17 | He suddenly had an idea . |
| 18 | But what of the driving force behind it all — if he suddenly had an offer to take charge of a major opera house in the west , would he leave behind what he has so painstakingly built up ? |
| 19 | For an hour they flew a repetitive zig-zag from their base to the Front and back , until Callaghan 's neck was stiff and his eyes ached ; but when he suddenly spotted an aircraft he wanted to shout the news . |
| 20 | However , the side 's leading bowler flatly refutes the story attributed to him that he physically coerced an umpire into granting an lbw decision during a match involving the Maharajah of Patiala . |
| 21 | ‘ He just had an accident . ’ |
| 22 | He did n't tell himself that since he was no longer on spelling terms with himself he just obeyed an order and rummaged through the man 's pockets as if he were checking a suit going to the cleaners ' . |
| 23 | At the end of 1992 , accompanied by Chancellor Helmut Kohl , Russian culture minister Yevgeniy Sidorov and Pushkin Museum director Irina Antonov , he finally signed an agreement on the establishment of the Ludwig Gallery within the Pushkin Museum . |
| 24 | For the remainder of his until his death in June 1989 he nevertheless remained an active and devoted supporter . |
| 25 | When the US army discovered that Silver had been engaged in research work ( on Whitman ) he was put to personally testing the durability of uniforms , in sub-zero and boiling temperatures , artificial rain storms in laboratories and real tropical conditions in Florida : he soon became an assistant director of this project and stayed there for two years . |
| 26 | Being attracted to books dealing with history and legend he soon created an imaginary world of his own , and birds and reptiles provided him with companionship until at the age of nine he was eventually sent to a preparatory school in Dartford . |
| 27 | As a result he was appointed in 1937 to be Maltravers Pursuivant Extraordinary : he thus played an official role at the coronation of King George VI in that year . |
| 28 | He thus remained an enigma , a man who could not be known as most politicians were known and who seemed to shun such contacts . |
| 29 | Freud told the old Man that had he not become an analyst , he would have been an economist , which conjures up all sorts of hilarious possibilities . |
| 30 | He already had an armful of flowers , star-shaped clusters almost the same shade as the sky above . |