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 | I agree he plays well enough for Eire tho . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He must have noticed Andrew 's smile dawning , for he shied violently away from his unrestrained remark . |
| 5 | He drifts slowly up into the air . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | He knew nothing , and he cared very little about film . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He had expected to lose his life on the track , but he passed away peacefully in his bed . |
| 11 | ‘ That 's the Dalestour , Sundays only into North Yorkshire , ’ the driver said as he passed hurriedly on to the next customer . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He crept inconspicuously back to the dashboard , switched on the ignition , and looked at the gauge . |
| 14 | When he judged he had gone far enough he crept cautiously out to where the trees were more sparse . |
| 15 | It 's gon na be wonderful at nursery if he goes straight up to his teacher again . |
| 16 | Well you know , in that case you 'll have to wait until he goes away somewhere for the evening . |
| 17 | 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 ) . |
| 18 | He was centrally positioned in the six-yard box when he headed the first after 15 minutes ; the second , eight minutes before half-time , he met equally powerfully at the far post . |
| 19 | Yet he sits more firmly in the saddle than ever . |
| 20 | He rode straight up to the gateway of the monastery , not daring to stop for second thoughts , and said to the first monk he saw , ‘ Can you read and write ? ’ |
| 21 | Morris , the Gloucester left wing , did not move to cover Swift as he sprinted across again from the right wing , so Swift was left with such a clear overlap when Guscott and Fallon gave him the ball that he was able to score unopposed . |
| 22 | The ‘ Sean Astin digs up a caveman and he fits right in in the Valley ’ plot does n't add to the suburban dumbnation routines but rather reworks the Eighties ' ‘ innocents abroad in America ’ genre ( eg anything from Starman to Crocodile Dundee ) . |
| 23 | With so many commitments it is understandable that he ceased rather early in his career to show his work in public exhibitions , but he still found time to pursue other interests . |
| 24 | It is Jesus 's teaching to his disciples , however , that he refers most frequently to the Old Testament , both by explicit quotations and by innumerable verbal echoes , so that some passages seen like a patch-work of Old Testament words and ideas . |
| 25 | But a little matter of a birdie for Bernhard was n't going to unsettle Seve , and he got straight back to the job , hitting some lovely shots to the green . |
| 26 | He got right in to being that successful South Africa skipper ( 8 ) |
| 27 | As he got closer still to the house the fly above his head let him to rejoin its fellows . |
| 28 | In fact he got more out of it than I did , I think . |
| 29 | HARRI JONES , general secretary of the League , proved to be the unlikely star of a truncated cup programme when he got agonizingly close to his maiden century . |
| 30 | He gazed despairingly down at his blotter . |