Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] he [vb past] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The earl mounted his horse and chased after it , but enjoyed the sport so much that he ordered the town butchers to supply a mad bull every year on 13 November in return for grazing rights on the meadows . |
| 2 | I think he treated the dogs better than he treated the women , actually- ’ Markby broke off embarrassed . |
| 3 | Widmark had recently joined John Ford 's repertory company and so Wayne , who was producing and directing as well as starring as Davy Crockett , was delighted when Widmark accepted the role of Jim Dowie — so much so that he took an ad in the Hollywood Reporter reading ‘ Welcome aboard , Dick . ’ |
| 4 | Firmly clutching her hand he slowed , and Frere arced around them on still skates so that he made a sweeping circle on the ice before they came , breathless , to a halt . |
| 5 | Alan sat down again , knotting his legs around one another so that he made a dangerously tight parcel . |
| 6 | Each of these was then further subdivided so that he had a total of thirty-eight — each group corresponding to one of the thirty-eight remedies which he subsequently discovered . |
| 7 | ‘ No doubt , ’ murmured Dr Neil , who was finding that this interchange , far from dowsing lust , was fuelling it , so that he had a terrible desire to fall on his knees before his skivvy , crying , ‘ Be mine , McAllister , be mine , immediately , ’ like a hero , or perhaps a villain , in a stage melodrama . |
| 8 | But in wartime everything was more difficult : building had ceased , building sites were closed and workmen were mobilized , so that he had no easy source of stone . |
| 9 | As he strode out into the darkness , the gloom and chill of the evening only served to sharpen his anticipation , so that he had no eyes for the RIC men on patrol , the few pedestrians hurrying along , or the horse and cart just moving off beside him on the road , the barely discernible name JAS SULLIVAN painted on the cart 's side and a burly figure with a flattened nose and scarred face hunched on the driver 's seat , desultorily twitching the reins . |
| 10 | Then he pulled her to him , and kissed her and this time stayed kissing her , and when she did not struggle , he pressed on , and went down to the ground with her and months of longing for her flooded him almost instantly , so that he had no time to swing with her long , cool firmness as he had dreamed of so often , but the instant release in contact with her swept away all his turbulence . |
| 11 | He gave the impression of vulnerability by sitting with his chin on his chest so that he had no alternative but to look up through his eyebrows . |
| 12 | His footsteps seemed unusually loud on the cobblestones , setting up a confusion of echoes from the brick walls so that he had the eerie sensation that he was not alone , and that other solitary walkers surrounded him . |
| 13 | They did it , very slowly and tenderly , and then drove on again ; and then Boy made him stop the second time , in a layby with the first lorry headlights going past , and the man took Boy 's cock in his mouth again , and masturbated Boy again so that he came a second time , and then they drove again . |
| 14 | Alfonso , on the other hand , though go-ahead and energetic , was of a docile nature and readily deferred to his parents and his eldest sister Urraca , so that he became the favourite son and developed all the traits of a spoilt child . |
| 15 | The driver was from the Colonel 's staff , and he had travelled ahead a full month before so that he knew the city , the back-doubles they might need and the side streets . |
| 16 | And then his mind cleared , and he was looking at the Robemaker and feeling contempt for him again , feeling as well , the dangerous , powerful white spears of the Stroicim Inchinn withdraw , so that he knew the Robemaker had again called up the Stroicim without giving any outward indication of having done so . |
| 17 | Often they axed the only approving comments , so that he looked a complete bastard . |
| 18 | Every goddam way they had taken Harry 's picture , so that he saw the part of Harry 's head that was intact , and the part that was blasted . |
| 19 | Palmer ( 1988 : 199 ) proposes that when followed by the to infinitive , verbs of perception function as verbs of reporting , so that He saw the children to be eating their lunch means " He reported the children to be eating their lunch " . |
| 20 | I told him that when he came up the ramp he must accelerate on the throttle at speed so that he got the front wheel up in the air , so he would n't nosedive and hurt himself . |
| 21 | The kiss grew stronger and wilder , and he rolled over so that he covered the length of her . |
| 22 | The stuff spun his head , he felt his hair : an instant sprout , so that he sat a half-inch taller . |
| 23 | There he gained an Intermediate BS , and then worked washing up plates and studying in the evening so that he gained a scholarship to Imperial College , where the ISS agreed to support him . |
| 24 | Willie turned back to look at the comics so that he missed the surprised expression on his face . |
| 25 | He turned around , so that he faced the water again . |
| 26 | He did not feel hungry , and the alcohol sent his imagination soaring into the smoky roof beams , so that he lost the thread of the story Ratagan was telling him — the one about the Dwarf and the Firewood , he thought muzzily . |
| 27 | It was not merely that he had the work done quickly but he had done it thinkingly . |
| 28 | That Neil was not sleeping there after all , or merely that he shut the flaps at night against the midges or the weather ? |
| 29 | We have learned only that he told the news , and that the people cried out in anguish . |
| 30 | This changed when he became aware not only that he had a personal problem , but that he was that problem . |