Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though some people found him rather wrapped up in his thoughts , he always enjoyed talking to children about science . |
| 2 | She lost him then and had to search and found him eventually curled up amid the wiring in the back of the record-player where he had n't hidden for a long time , not since two dark-haired people who were into black magic had come to dinner and he had disappeared for half a day until she found his secret hole . |
| 3 | An hour later , Tracy and Miss Ludlow helped him secretly slip away from the hospital to spend two days in a secluded Miami retreat soaking up the sun before returning to Newmarket . |
| 4 | It was just too galling , seeing him all dressed up for someone else . |
| 5 | Well I 'm I 'm sorry but I 'm not a lot of use to him if I let him just walk away from the shield . |
| 6 | ‘ And his fellow directors do n't mind him just going off by himself without letting them know where he is ? |
| 7 | It might seem too easy to him just to slip away into the fantasy world of death . ’ |
| 8 | He said but unfortunately because he 's boisterous , which he is and because it 's easier for them with their numbers to let him just get away with it or say oh Martin go outside we ca n't , you know , then then he was n't learning |
| 9 | This must be him just coming in through the side door . |
| 10 | It took him longer to get there after the performance but he was away from all the problems of the rest of the company . |
| 11 | He guessed his mother was making it all up just to frighten him and to stop him ever going out of the house alone . |
| 12 | She felt edgy and unsettled , dreading tomorrow and the final show-down over Ryan — for the prospect of breaking her solemn promise to him still lay heavily on her mind . |
| 13 | An astonished officer found him still clinging grimly to the controls as he trundled along at a snail 's pace . |
| 14 | The rest of the lads got a fair distance down the freeway en route to Toronto before they realised they 'd lost him , went back , and found him still sitting there like a tit in a trance nodding away to his Walkman . |
| 15 | Calm and svelte , stealthy as a cat in his movements , he seemed to approach sex as a form of research , favouring techniques of foreplay so subtle and prolonged that Robyn occasionally dozed off in the middle of them , and would wake with a guilty start to find him still crouched studiously over her body , fingering it like a box of index cards . |
| 16 | And him always bumming on to Derek about how he 'd taped the whole of Brideshead Revisited . |
| 17 | Trudy had put up with his nonsense with great patience but when she found him busily working away in the region of her left ear it was too much . |
| 18 | An unpretentious batsman and an excellent field near the wicket , his towering height — he was 6 ft. 5 ins. tall , and delivered the ball , it was claimed , from a height of eight feet — enabled him both to bowl effortlessly off a short run and to produce stinging lift off a good length . |
| 19 | Some of his oldest friends , who for years had been accustomed to seeing him , fat and genial , as the leading light of a pig-sticking expedition , were astonished to hear him now holding forth like a veritable Newton or Faraday and discussing the latest discoveries in medicine as fluently as if they were entries in the Bengal Club Cup or the Planters ' Handicap . |
| 20 | I can see him now standing there in the door . |
| 21 | He followed her up to the bar and she heard him noisily latching on to Riley who , she was positive , would not buy him a drink . |
| 22 | He you could see him really took up to them . |
| 23 | Davis , of course , would have walked into England 's team in Poland a week on Wednesday ; until last season 's prolonged suspension , followed by injury , Bobby Robson had him firmly pencilled in as Bryan Robson 's replacement . |
| 24 | Jim had stomped downstairs wiping the blood off his face with a handkerchief and later it had been Jo and Lisa who had packed his bags and told him never to come back to the house . |
| 25 | I said let him bloody get on with it . |
| 26 | Aveling preferred actresses , but they were more difficult to locate once he left New York , and he rather looked down on what passed as theatre in America , although he admired Buffalo Bill 's Wild West Show . |
| 27 | The answer is an all-too-simple one : by the time he courageously signed on as a volunteer infantryman , John was in the terminal stages of consumption . |
| 28 | There was no more sound , so he slowly reversed back into the road as the Sturmabteilungen from the gate carne up to investigate . |
| 29 | Then , proudly and smiling , he slowly walked back for the presentation , his friends dancing round him patting him . |
| 30 | Two weeks ago he secretly flew back to Sarajevo to speak to 10-year-old Natasha Mihaljcic 's only surviving relative . |