Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Furthermore he wrote from the standpoint of one who had failed conspicuously to emulate his own colleagues during his lifetime . |
| 2 | He dozed and was about to fall asleep when suddenly he woke with a start . |
| 3 | Suddenly he fell on the wet deck , and he caught the side of the ship with his hands . |
| 4 | Then suddenly he fell to the ground , with blood running down his face . |
| 5 | Suddenly he crouched as a cry broke the stillness and another cry answered it . |
| 6 | Suddenly he dashed across the street , dodging the traffic , and jumped on to a small motorbike . |
| 7 | There were pauses , then he banged the keys plaintively , going over the passages he had n't been able to get right , then suddenly he put on a record of the Chopin and played along with it , always two or three notes behind . |
| 8 | However much he sounds like an aristocratic flasher , the Blue Baron is in fact a fictitious flying ace from the Great War and the star of Zeppelin 's latest budget blaster . |
| 9 | No matter how much he wiped at the condensation on the window , he could still barely see what was going on out there . |
| 10 | Idly he turned to the London addendum that had been recently updated while the shipping contract had been under negotiation . |
| 11 | Apparently he came to the office to get her telephone number and she told him we had them . ’ |
| 12 | There 's a chap er at our called Bill who claims that he got one one year before that but he ca n't prove it to us , er apparently he read in the Readers Digest of Neighbourhood Watch schemes in America and set one up himself in his own little area . |
| 13 | ‘ I do n't have all the details , but apparently he argued with a chap this morning about his bill and went along to his room later . |
| 14 | Yeah but as they become more influential and er basically he talked about the erm demonstration on the anniversary of the October revolution , erm and then victories of the northern expedition and , and et etcetera and various victories erm I do n't , you , you know , there is a the idea that , you know , the tu the tu er tide is turning erm you know they ought to join now rather than be firmly left behind |
| 15 | In the past I 'd just resented how long he spent in the office . |
| 16 | Perhaps the only thing that kept Dauntless Javelot from perishing of dreariness and despair was the fact that no matter how long he rode through the forest , he never seemed to visit the same place twice . |
| 17 | The excess starters , generators , regulators and anything else that we were n't supposed to have was put on this trailer , was tied neatly to the canvas , we put a man on the tractor and all day long he drove around the perimeter strip with it . |
| 18 | He could n't cry , he could n't feel ; he did n't know how long he stood outside the door , leaning against the greasy wall . |
| 19 | I might have got worn out , the number of miles we walked and bins we excavated , only he sat on every bench we came across and stared into space . |
| 20 | For a moment it looked as if he was free and would land safely near Tock 's cottage but coming down he fell with a thump into the basket lift at the other side . |
| 21 | As Allen turned to clamber down he spotted through a gap in the leaves a thin spiral of smoke not far off to the east . |
| 22 | The little Hoflin did n't fall over and looked extremely pretty , and when the curtain came down he leaned for a moment on the rostrum and took a deep breath . |
| 23 | Perhaps he dreamed of the nine-pound baby |
| 24 | If he 's not there , perhaps he went for a walk in the grounds ? ’ |
| 25 | Perhaps he lived in a cage like this . |
| 26 | I thought he felt the same about me ; perhaps he did in the beginning . |
| 27 | Perhaps he walks on the right side , with just the metal grid fence separating him from the rolling fields of graves — in no hurry , since there is no class for him to make . |
| 28 | West won the second frame on the black but that was all he managed against the Ulsterman . |
| 29 | It was a crazy idea , but it was all he had at the moment . |
| 30 | When , a long time ago now , Stephen had tried to call him Dad or Father and drop the babyish name , he had shouted that Stephen was all he had in the world and could n't he have a little bit of kindness and call him by the one name that meant something ? |