Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We both know he made far more from the caravan business than he ever admitted to . |
| 2 | Even as he made back up towards it , half pulling , half swimming along the line leading towards the rapidly swelling shape that he knew was his raft , the water he was in turned solid , sweeping him effortlessly to one side . |
| 3 | He lived on quietly at Fen Ditton , where he was buried 9 December 1690 . |
| 4 | I agree he plays well enough for Eire tho . |
| 5 | Rollins ' forte is the anecdote and the near-hysterical rant and , when he veers too far into the territory of the poet , the philosopher or the stand-up comedian , the results can be a wee bit naff . |
| 6 | He must have noticed Andrew 's smile dawning , for he shied violently away from his unrestrained remark . |
| 7 | Chinyou , who had been United 's best player on the day , was booked in the first half and he limped off just after the break , and his departure was to prove a turning point . |
| 8 | He swooped down on to the grass and took stance by it . |
| 9 | He drifts slowly up into the air . |
| 10 | But he clammed up right after that . |
| 11 | When he turns up back at the flat , he has a bunch of red gladioli . |
| 12 | He turns more fruitfully to plays , becomes writer in residence at the Royal Court , adapts Brecht for the RSC and Kafka for Radio 3 , turns out two screenplays which Stephen Frears films , is nominated for an Oscar for one of them , and finally succeeds , in his mid-thirties , in getting a novel published ( its adolescent predecessors have been burnt four years earlier ) . |
| 13 | He knew nothing , and he cared very little about film . |
| 14 | Never one to believe in quick or facile solutions , he cared very much about the national welfare ; and as he was one of the few British writers whose word carried any weight with the authorities — in contrast to such authors as Priestley who carried more weight with the public through his remarkable war-time broadcasts — he gave the impression of a certain helplessness in face of government policy which appeared to lack resolution . |
| 15 | He did it because he wanted to , because he was n't going to be her victim , and because he cared very much for Arthur . |
| 16 | He points out how for Smith , ‘ The similarity between the average Londoner or Berliner to-day , and the average ‘ primitive man ’ … is insisted on' , and quotes from Smith 's text sentiments which reverberate throughout Eliot 's own work : ‘ There is no innate tendency in man to be progressive . ’ |
| 17 | He flies down there in his own old but immaculate Morane-Saulnier Paris III jet , and loves every second of it , summing up the Paris as ‘ 300 knots , 30,000 feet , six people : they 're magic numbers ’ . |
| 18 | Tom did very well at the Guildhall where nobody told him he should stop singing , a piece of good news he passed on triumphantly to his grandmother . |
| 19 | He had expected to lose his life on the track , but he passed away peacefully in his bed . |
| 20 | ‘ That 's the Dalestour , Sundays only into North Yorkshire , ’ the driver said as he passed hurriedly on to the next customer . |
| 21 | For starters , the American Paul Strand shows the work that he produced way back in 1954 when , in his middle sixties , he visited the Hebridean islands of South Uist , Eriskay and Benbecula . |
| 22 | He cruised along contentedly on the bridle until being sent into the lead a quarter of a mile out and then galloped on resolutely to win by one and a half lengths . |
| 23 | He crept inconspicuously back to the dashboard , switched on the ignition , and looked at the gauge . |
| 24 | When he judged he had gone far enough he crept cautiously out to where the trees were more sparse . |
| 25 | It 's gon na be wonderful at nursery if he goes straight up to his teacher again . |
| 26 | Well you know , in that case you 'll have to wait until he goes away somewhere for the evening . |
| 27 | But he goes off just before a ship sails , without telling anyone . |
| 28 | So he 's rushing around and flapping this morning before he goes off just before nine . |
| 29 | Miliband 's response to Poulantzas was that he goes too far in dismissing the composition of the state elite as of no account , and in suggesting that structural constraints are so compelling ‘ as to turn those who run the state into the merest functionaries and executants of policies imposed upon them by ‘ the system ’ ( Miliband 1983 , p. 32 ) . |
| 30 | And then he goes down again in secret on the Saturday in the Datsun . |