Example sentences of "he was [adj] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But apparently they know that I 'm really forward which is absolute , actually not very true cos Ed said that I was quite forward and he , I was only forward with him because the person I got off with just before him was bloody forward and it made me a bit forward but I calmed down after that , you know ? |
| 2 | Sara as she greeted him was conscious again of his physical charm , but there was more to a man than a pretty envelope . |
| 3 | For him to know that she was still very much sexually attracted to him was bad enough — but she was terrified of Ross discovering that her feelings ran much deeper . |
| 4 | The sniper got him when he was halfway there . |
| 5 | ‘ He was fourteen when I married his father , and that 's twenty years ago — which makes him thirty-four years of age now . ’ |
| 6 | He was fourteen then , thin and very dark , with the intensity of adolescence . |
| 7 | He was friendly not only with well-known boxers and bookies but with George Robey and with other public Merseyside figures like Bessie Braddock . |
| 8 | He was friendly enough and that , but I du n no , I felt sort of uncomfortable with him . |
| 9 | He was friendly enough , but Kevin was wary . |
| 10 | He was friendly enough , thankfully a Norman born , so Benjamin could converse easily with him whilst I could follow the general gist of their conversation . |
| 11 | He was friendly too , and she rather thought she liked him . |
| 12 | Francis knew something — he was smug enough about it . |
| 13 | He was preoccupied suddenly , at a distance from her , and she wanted him back . |
| 14 | A part of himself longed to surrender , but he was close now , and hands reached for him . |
| 15 | He was close enough to hear the skid of rubber on tarmac , and then it was past the building and away out of sight . |
| 16 | As soon as he was close enough to the head of the ladder to use it as a support , he stood up . |
| 17 | By now he was close enough to see the red blotches erupting on her creamy skin . |
| 18 | Three and a half hours after noon , he was close enough to the Earn to hear the shouting and deduce that the army landed that morning at Levenmouth had completed its march northwards through Fife and even its struggle , harassed by Tuathal , through the defile of Glen Farg , and was now here , on one side or the other of the Earn crossing . |
| 19 | Though he moved silently , the slivers of ice sliding down her spine told her he was close behind . |
| 20 | He was safer inside than out . |
| 21 | an electro cardiograph , it 's a tracing of the electrical il impulses from the heart given off by the heart and this chap came in he 'd never had one before and he was nervous anyway , so I 'm trying to put him at his ease and I , I put , you have to put like a rubber band round their arms and legs and attach erm electrodes to them , you do n't feel anything , you 're only measuring the electrical impulses given off by the heart |
| 22 | ( He was nervous now , as well as interested . ) |
| 23 | ‘ Honestly , Lang caused nothing but trouble in the Pilbara when he was first up there . |
| 24 | He was first on with his presentation , and had been there since six-thirty to make sure there were no slip-ups with his slide presentation . |
| 25 | Working alongside other pioneers he was first spontaneously discovering new possibilities in camera technique and then he found that he could equally spontaneously draw on his experiences and his own values . |
| 26 | He was first out last time near enough . |
| 27 | I remember old Clive when he was first there |
| 28 | Their rooms adjoined , and if she had a nightmare , he was first in to comfort her and laugh the fears away . |
| 29 | Jose Maria Olazabal looked like being in a challenging position when he was 11 under with the par five 18th to come . |
| 30 | He was disappointed somehow . |