Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] he [vb mod] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But an object contemplated for its beauty alone spontaneously attracts the spectator and rouses him to expand and intensify his awareness of it ; and however much or little trust he may put in the formulation of aesthetic standards , he evaluates it by his reaction at the unsustainable height of concentration when he is responding to all his information at once . |
| 2 | Stephen had rather expected he would do that . |
| 3 | Ace suddenly realized he might have taken other damage . |
| 4 | He only thinks he can beat you . ’ |
| 5 | The landlord had obviously decided he could make a lot of money out of this rehearsal room lark . |
| 6 | And to suddenly decide he 'll come with us … ’ |
| 7 | Hoomey set off up the hill , half running , so relieved he could have cried . |
| 8 | She could only hope he 'd do the same . |
| 9 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where the seller delivers to the buyer a quantity of goods less than he contracted to sell , the buyer may reject them , but if the buyer accepts the goods so delivered he must pay for them at the contract rate . |
| 10 | ( 3 ) Where the seller delivers to the buyer a quantity of goods larger than he contracted to sell and the buyer accepts the whole of the goods so delivered he must pay for them at the contract rate . |
| 11 | " In so doing he shall give consideration to the interests of employees and the travelling public " . |
| 12 | In so doing he may have had access to local traditions . |
| 13 | In so doing he may come as near as he can ever hope to an understanding of war as people of the late Middle Ages knew it , no easy task even in the most favourable conditions , but one which can not be attempted with any hope of success without a proper appreciation of the many threads which make up history . |
| 14 | Hardy firmly believed that it was his duty to face up to the unpleasant aspects of life , if by so doing he could show sympathy with his fellow man and , perhaps , after all , offer hope for improvement in the future . |
| 15 | It would only mean he might let her down again , and that would be asking for it . |
| 16 | ‘ Rohan obviously felt he could make plans for his own future , at last . |
| 17 | A trawler-owning ancestor of mine bought the island , apparently convinced he could make a go of farming in a place surround by his beloved sea . ’ |
| 18 | Inside her she had felt a little sense of triumph begin to grow as they rode side by side through the cool bright jungle glades ; sometimes she had allowed her horse to drift towards his on the narrow trail , perhaps hoping he might give voice to the passion his expression had seemed to promise at the palais . |
| 19 | ‘ He only said he 'd buy me a Pepsi . |
| 20 | On Tommy Docherty : ‘ I only wish he 'd run off with my wife . ’ |
| 21 | He only wished he could grow taller and tougher and learn not to twitch and stammer with nervousness , that he could stop biting his nails and scratching his head so that his father would no longer hate him . |
| 22 | GRAHAM TAYLOR now not only believes he will take England to the World Cup finals but that the draw against Brazil shows what might be possible when they get there . |
| 23 | He had n't been thinking anything of the sort and last night he had only suggested he could settle her business for her with a phone call to the manager , whom he knew well , because he wanted to take her out today instead of waiting outside hotels for her . |
| 24 | ‘ He is not badly injured he can walk but obviously , as with all back problems , it hurts a good deal . ’ |
| 25 | But Dickie Arbiter , his spokesman , said : ‘ He is not badly injured he can walk but obviously as with all back problems it hurts a good deal . ’ |
| 26 | Maybe he just thinks he can beat me . ’ |
| 27 | She prided herself on her strength — and yet this man , who had already proven he could stand up to her verbally , was holding her off as she if she were a feather . |
| 28 | ‘ He told me that all his life he was such a shit , and he finally realized he could make someone as happy as he made me , ’ recalls Joey . |
| 29 | With the easy grace and dignity associated with the old amateur tradition there was never any doubt that the job would come to him , and so gifted was he as a batsman that one somehow assumed he would slip easily into it once he had learned the ropes . |
| 30 | It was generally felt he would have won at St Andrews after his 29 for the first nine in the first round if he had n't had part of the round washed out and had to continue the next day . |