Example sentences of "he simply [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He might be annoyed for a moment to find his prey had fled , but there was nothing to stop him simply making the best of a bad job and having a weekend 's skiing . |
| 2 | You took the job with him simply to clear up a mystery . |
| 3 | The armed robber might say that he had no intention of using the firearm , that he carried it with him simply to frighten the victim , and that it went off accidentally : if the jury believes that , should he be convicted of murder ? |
| 4 | My response to him simply proved that . ’ |
| 5 | But , of course , his attack was very much on-target if he simply wished to attack those elements of the media that were least favourable to his own party and government . |
| 6 | He simply wished that he did n't have to contend with the unspoken supposition that the two of them were hiding up there on the Step and banging away like a couple of baboons , which he saw in the eyes of more than one person who wished him good morning when he went into town to pick up his mail . |
| 7 | As Burnett had been told nothing about the MI6 operation , he simply rejected Kotov 's complaint as a typical piece of Russian propaganda . |
| 8 | He simply observed , rather wearily , that if Gentle 's word was worth so little after all the effort he , Klein , had put into finding work for him , then it was perhaps best that they end their business relationship now . |
| 9 | He simply taps his helmsman , multiple world champion Buddy Melges , on the shoulder and says : ‘ Are we far enough ahead for me to steer yet ? ’ |
| 10 | He simply announced that although Edward V had been recognized as the rightful heir , this was only because men were ‘ then ignorant of the very sure and true title which our sovereign lord that now is , king Richard III , hath and had the same time to the crown of England ’ . |
| 11 | He simply announced that although Edward V had been recognized as the rightful heir , this was only because men were ‘ then ignorant of the very sure and true title which our sovereign lord that now is , king Richard III , hath and had the same time to the crown of England ’ . |
| 12 | Basil did not preach on such matters ; he simply set high standards for teachers to emulate . |
| 13 | He simply waited for sinners to return to him . |
| 14 | He simply does n't believe in it . |
| 15 | He simply does n't have a phone so we 'll be sending one out to him very soon . |
| 16 | But he simply does not come to grips with the genuine political and cultural difficulty of establishing effective institutions for research in applied sciences , such as agriculture and medicine , which can not be seeded entirely by individual commitment and talent . |
| 17 | Reply : The Premier 's deputy secretary Jonathan Haslam replied : ‘ As I am sure you appreciate , particularly after recent events , the PM 's schedule is such that he simply does not have time to contribute to your magazine . |
| 18 | ‘ He 'll coast , looking for an opening but the annoying thing is that sometimes he simply does n't go in and take it . |
| 19 | He simply does not need to be loved , apparently , whether by his relatives or anyone else ; he does not even , at all reliably , want it . |
| 20 | When an Orc wants to do something he simply does it , where a human might spend untold time weighing the alternatives . |
| 21 | He simply looked startled — as if a worm had just lifted its head and answered him back , Carrie thought . |
| 22 | She reached out and took the bottle from his hand and turned it around to examine the label , while he simply looked at her in amazement . |
| 23 | For a while he simply looked , tracing the subtle curves of her body , his fingers not quite touching the surface of her flesh . |
| 24 | He did n't laugh , he simply looked at it carefully . |
| 25 | I 'm a designer , ’ she added when he simply looked right through her . |
| 26 | In the post-Althusserian context of today it is nevertheless somewhat startling to find the Althusser of Reading Capital citing his debt to Foucault ( along with Bachelard , Cavaillès , and Canguilhem ) as one of our masters in reading learned works'. perhaps even more unexpected , in the light of the fact that a popular British Marxist position on Althusser is that he simply turned history into theory , is the choice of Foucault 's Madness and Civilization ( ’ that great work' ) and The Birth of the Clinic as examples of the kind of history , focused on the necessity of the production of a concept , that he was advocating . |
| 27 | After a while he simply lay there , numb , half conscious , his hands making hopeless little passes in the air , until Ellwood stopped , suddenly , his arms raised , as if a connection had been broken in some terrible machine . |
| 28 | But he put up no defence ; he simply raised his hands and laid them lightly on Gentle 's shoulders . |
| 29 | He simply raised the volume of his voice slightly and continued as though she had not uttered . |
| 30 | He simply exaggerated it , bringing the ball wide round the tree on the wind as if on the proverbial piece of string . |