Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly he tried to make some sexual advances . |
| 2 | Fabia was staring at him , struck dumb , when suddenly he let go one of her arms , placed an arm about her shoulders and , looking deeply into her eyes , said throatily ‘ My dear , dear , Fabia , can not you see how it is for me ? ’ |
| 3 | He had memories of Vienna before the 1939 war , and liked people who took care over such things as coffee — proper , expensive coffee — as he tried to himself , however much he decided to ignore most of the facts of being poor . |
| 4 | Rang the landlord the next morning , Saturday morning , and , apparently he has rang last night , and your wife Debbie took my drink away and away , I said that 's fair enough , so he said . |
| 5 | Mind you it seemed that they had a test at school last week and he was n't terribly happy with it , he said he could n't understand it , he tried to explain to me what it was , but erm , it 's not , not easy , but Ga Gavin said erm , he said they 'd had a test and he said it took him time to get into it but once he got into it , you know , he did alright in it , I think he said how many he got , he did n't seem to do too badly , but he said Alex did n't really do anything and what he did do he thought was wrong so he did n't hand it in , he said and in actual fact what he had done was right , so I do n't know , I told , I told Alex to go and see , you know , and ask about it and sort of erm , apparently he did do that so at least he 'll know , but erm , it 's strange really because normally Alex |
| 6 | Apparently he tried typing old tips from pre-Corky days , but they did n't work properly . |
| 7 | basically he 's studied this minute area of China and , and basically , from that minute area of China , from his experiences , bearing in mind that he 's obviously trying to sell revolution , he is then generalizing about the whole of China . |
| 8 | I mean basically he 's put that into account and then it 's how much will they need on top of that so he total that he would need would be three hundred and seventy thousand pounds of which there is a hundred seventy thousand so the shortfall 's twenty thousand , or two hundred thousand . |
| 9 | Hitherto he had felt such a step to be premature , and one that might dangerously provoke the USSR . |
| 10 | The same feeling of brooding menace wells up on his version of Presley 's ‘ Heartbreak Hotel ’ , only he decides to leave any anger on hold and transforms the rock ‘ n ’ roll classic into a haunting ballad that sounds as though it came from the pen of Edgar Allan Poe rather than that of Axton , Durden and Presley . |
| 11 | If only he had paid more attention when he had had the chance . |
| 12 | ‘ He should have been the best horse I ever had , if only he 'd had decent health ! ’ from owner David Broome , this was quite some testimonial to the abilities of the brilliant grey show-jumper , Phoenix Park . |
| 13 | Here , for example , was Claude Mauriac 's advice : " Time would be on de Gaulle 's side , if only he consented to keep quiet . |
| 14 | ‘ Only he forgot to make sure that the gnomes kept out of range . |
| 15 | I 've seen him , only he 's got black hair and — ‘ |
| 16 | She knew he did n't escape : perhaps he had gone mad , a gibbering idiot in the middle of that room , in the dark , with those doors opening and closing all around him . |
| 17 | Only that perhaps he had manufactured some reason so that she would be able to overcome her own personal fears of being alone with him ; given her an excuse to accept his invitation to re-enter the apartment where he 'd previously abused her both physically and verbally . |
| 18 | Perhaps he 'd wanted some fresh air . |
| 19 | By giving the Secretary of State the power this side of the general election , perhaps he intends to implement such a council after the election . |
| 20 | Perhaps he 's got sick of her already — I should think Luscious Luke is the love 'em and leave 'em type , would n't you ? ’ |
| 21 | Perhaps he wanted to feel this moral force of a man was really no better , no finer than him . |
| 22 | Obviously he 's got dissolving stitches in . |
| 23 | For me personally he has done untold good . |
| 24 | He had expected the sack at the time , but strangely enough he had had more than his share of work from that day on . |
| 25 | By 3.45pm he had washed 45 cars — plus a passing police car and the fire engine ! |
| 26 | So he said get some money up together mum . |
| 27 | In his first Report to the Governors , Daniels noted that it was difficult to teach three languages , and so he had made German alternative to Latin in the Upper School , and French alternative in the Lower . |
| 28 | So he had worn scruffy jeans and a Texas University T-shirt to his Downing Street breakfast . |
| 29 | So he had heard those monumentally stupid words . |
| 30 | So he had seen fit to consider her feelings . |