Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rather distrusted Gallic logic . |
| 2 | NO SNOW fell during the night and at 10.00 , after Erika had run her five kilometres under a dazzling blue sky , Karl ran and said that he thought he rather did that a brief tour of Berlin would be possible and that he would be waiting in the lounge of the Palast at 11.00 ; adding that Paul should meet them at the television Tower at 1.00 |
| 3 | His business skills and integrity earned him wide respect , and a strong personality reinforced his large physical presence — he latterly weighed eighteen stones . |
| 4 | He thereby included hundreds of advisory committees and hundreds of judicial tribunals and many more bodies with no governmental function at all ( several public schools , for example ) . |
| 5 | The librarian , fearful of fire , gently shooed Corbett out so the clerk went down to stroll in the monastery 's small herb garden while he rigorously analysed all he had learnt in his journey to Kinghorn . |
| 6 | There was no need whatsoever for him to ‘ take her over ’ — she knew that , and Travis knew that , and Naylor Massingham would create merry hell when he eventually knew that . |
| 7 | Indeed , Mr Buckley was either too generous or too fool-hardy ( probably a bit of both ) for his own good , for he eventually went bankrupt . |
| 8 | He eventually incorporated this idea into his wider plan for tackling unemployment , the 1930 Mosley Memorandum . |
| 9 | He eventually stopped inquiring . |
| 10 | When he eventually turned eighteen his father told him he had no further objection to his being baptised , a decision based more on Rajiv 's co-operative attitude a year before than on his recent coming of age . |
| 11 | He eventually gave this one up and left them both threatening the car park attendant , but it took him half an hour to cross the street and ring the bell at No. 3 . |
| 12 | He gave renewed confidence and certainty to America after two troubled decades , his military actions were limited in scale and he eventually proved ready to talk with Moscow . |
| 13 | There he was particularly concerned with such questions as the size of convoys , which he successfully made larger , and the concerted offensive against U-boats in the Bay of Biscay on passage to and from their shore bases . |
| 14 | Later , in his book Aromatherapie , he describes how he successfully treated several long-term psychiatric patients with essential oils . |
| 15 | He successfully performed vesical lithotomy in the horse , and also amputated the equine penis . |
| 16 | Now he felt his brain slowly expanding , the noise and sunshine seemed to have entered his skull , and he badly wanted some food to settle the turbid churning of his feelings . |
| 17 | When Gaitskell met the chairmen on 22 July 1948 , however , he mercilessly exposed many of their arguments as the specious reasoning of bigoted men . |
| 18 | When he duly did this , he was one day out of time . |
| 19 | He was accordingly arrested and taken to Vine Street Police Station where he duly provided two specimens of breath in the intoximeter . |
| 20 | The clear , imperious voice , lately gagged by the folds of an archer 's cloak , was singing gently to itself , and did not fall silent even when he instinctively took one dancing step back from the collision , and then as readily translated the movement into a forward lunge that almost passed Adam 's startled guard . |
| 21 | He rarely made fundamental mistakes and never , she suspected , about a man 's scientific ability . |
| 22 | At home he rarely had more than a piece of toast and marmalade for breakfast , but when he was away he ate the whole cooked breakfast . |
| 23 | He rarely seemed happier than when intolerantly defending propositions in which he did not believe . |
| 24 | He rarely ate red meat . |
| 25 | The MP for a seat in Warwickshire , Grunte was not one of the better-loved Tories , but he rarely went unnoticed . |
| 26 | He rarely opened new vistas and he rarely inspired his supporters . |
| 27 | He rarely showed any emotion , even when people presented him with the most heart-felt outpourings of their fears and hopes . |
| 28 | He rarely paid any attention to the plays progressing below him . |
| 29 | The only trouble was that he never seemed to bother too much with punctuation — he apparently left that to me ! ’ |
| 30 | Snell 's wife was Susannah and he apparently had one son . |