Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] he [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Archie Hart 's suit filled and perhaps incautiously he made a dash for the shelter of some dunes , where he hoped to drain it out . |
| 2 | Halfway along he unlocked a garage and let the door slide up to reveal a newish Range Rover . |
| 3 | Now they should be be perfectly plain , straight and we got a t I got a true cut on eighteen inches with a a Mr was so so he made a special report on erm what I 'd done . |
| 4 | So naturally he travels a great deal , and is in demand as a consultant wherever Roman sites are being excavated . |
| 5 | Only yesterday he received a letter from Mr Clinton thanking him for his support . |
| 6 | There was no sign of his jacket but there was a second door to the room so probably he had a private bathroom and clothes closet as well . |
| 7 | Every so often he took a square-shaped flask from the inside pocket of his coat and stuck it to his lips like a trumpet . |
| 8 | So often he begins a line with ‘ I love … ’ 'I love to see … ’ |
| 9 | This particularly applied in the hundred or so religious houses of royal foundation but by the early fourteenth century the king was extending the custom to the newly elect of other institutions ; not less frequently he requested a corrody ( or board and lodging ) for an ageing royal clerk or household servant . |
| 10 | One morning not long ago he saw a fox walking past this same window . |
| 11 | He 'd acquired a gasoline kicker engine from somewhere with an exhaust that run and he had made during picked up from scraps and stuff and made it , so where he had a tub right on top of this gasoline engine . |
| 12 | But peacefully now he dreamed a dream |
| 13 | Just then he saw a familiar shape pass the window on its way to the rear door , heard the tap-tapping of high-heeled shoes on the flags outside . |
| 14 | Just then he saw a small boat moving out to sea , towards a ship . |
| 15 | But he did not open the door , because just then he heard a man 's voice in the room ! |
| 16 | Just then he heard a knock at his door , Randolph wondered who it could be . |
| 17 | And old smoothie Smokey Robinson does n't give up easily either he releases a concert recorded live at the Desert Inn , Las Vegas , to tie in with his current UK tour . |
| 18 | In February 1921 he gave up office and soon afterwards he accepted a peerage and retired from active politics . |
| 19 | Shortly afterwards he became a more serious bookmaker , but plunged too heavily at first and lost all his capital . |
| 20 | Early on he makes a general point , one taken up by later writers , that there is a relativity about identity . |
| 21 | Once there he hears a mysterious voice in his cornfields : ‘ If you build it , he will come . ’ |
| 22 | Once there he held a much-publicised news conference during which he ridiculed American intelligence and claimed he had been held in captivity by the CIA . |
| 23 | SCOTS comedian Robbie Coltrane , 42 , was taken by surprise yesterday when he became a father for the first time . |
| 24 | NEW Employment Secretary David Hunt turned the spotlight on training yesterday when he visited a number of sites in Cheshire and Merseyside . |
| 25 | Chris Law 's last-minute attempt to win a place in the British Olympic team briefly flickered to life yesterday when he won a Soling race in the French Olympic Classes Regatta at Hyeres , finishing in front of Lawrie Smith , writes David Pelly . |
| 26 | MIDLAND Bank chief executive Brian Pearse noted a glimmer of recovery yesterday when he unveiled a rise in pre-tax profits to £178 million . |
| 27 | PRINCE Charles put the royal blues behind him yesterday when he did a spell of hard time . |
| 28 | Padmore later became a central figure in the organisation of African students into nationalist movements , and later again he became a political advisor to Kwame Nkrumah when the latter founded the newly independent state of Ghana . |
| 29 | ‘ But he has a system now whereby he selects a side to suit a particular game . |
| 30 | There are one or two old professors here left over from before the liberation ( apparently no profs have been appointed since ) and the professor of English , Prof. Chen Jia , is a charming though deaf old fellow who studied in the U.S.A. , and who used to write books on English literature before the Cultural Revolution put a stop to all that sort of thing — but even so he quoted a bit of Chaucer to me surreptitiously at the dinner table . |