Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] [verb] [adv] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However thoroughly he had pulled up his African roots , however , he never really felt entirely accepted in England . |
| 2 | If he disputed Rich 's claim , then he had to set down his reasons . |
| 3 | Then he started to pick off his rivals , but time was slipping by and up in front outsider nd to Mill Reef in the Eclipse , Miss Dan , two lengths behind Nijinsky when third in the Arc in 1970 , Bourbon , who had won the Prix Royal-Oak ( the French St Leger ) and Irish Ball , who , though third to Mill Reef in the Derby and unplaced in the King George , had between those two races won the Irish Derby at The Curragh . |
| 4 | He flicked a speck from his lapel with a careless gesture , then he turned to pick up his briefcase . |
| 5 | Local reporters were keen to know how he managed to carry out his civic duties , to which Mr Snyder replied blithely that fellow committee members sat beside him during screenings and gave a running commentary ‘ to fill me in when the screen goes silent ’ . |
| 6 | She did n't need to be Sherlock Holmes to know how he had picked up his nick-name . |
| 7 | The pattern for these accusations had been set by the young Liberal Charles Masterman in The Heart of the Empire ( 1902 ) where he had thundered out his warning of inevitable decline as the result of the ‘ perpetual lowering in the vitality of the Imperial Race in the great cities of the Kingdom through over-crowding in room and in area ’ : What was never entirely clear was whether it was merely a physical deterioration that was eating away at the ‘ Imperial Race ’ , or if a moral decay was not also in evidence . |
| 8 | She met Penry 's favourite sister Kit and her husband , Reid Livesey , ate some supper , laughed and chatted with more of Penry 's friends , and all the time she burned with the need to ask Penry what he was playing at , why he 'd thrown down his unexpected announcement like a gauntlet in front of his voluptuous ex-wife . |