Example sentences of "he [adv] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he rather paradoxically put it , the final cause had to be first . |
| 2 | Other talking points were Paul Cadd 's clapped-out car and slow driving , and him nearly feeling the Hand of Plod when he rather loudly called Rik Mayell a ******* **** after he was announced man of the match : the local constable was ideally placed ( on the touchline , two yards away ) and had a real nik-nik look in his eye . |
| 3 | The influence of French literary tradition was thus limited , but not , as he rather loosely stated in his article , entirely absent . |
| 4 | When occasionally he rather wearily turned on the Government , the reaction was one of surprise more than of dismay . |
| 5 | He rather grumpily agreed and went away saying they would have to rehearse . |
| 6 | Here goes Kingsley Black again getting in behind the defenders but he rather over played his first touch then . |
| 7 | As he rather gloomily put together a breakfast of poached egg and grilled bacon he felt neither particularly healthy nor particularly clear-minded . |
| 8 | Above everything else Marx claimed that his work had a scientific status which , as he was never tired of pointing out , was in great contrast to those whom he rather disdainfully referred to as the ‘ utopians ’ . |
| 9 | He rather hauntingly characterises the life of the contemplative as a God-hunt and compares those hounds who see the hare and never weary of the chase until they have their quarry with those who run simply because others in the pack do so . |
| 10 | When he rather reluctantly accepted the suggestion of another Sibelius score , En Saga , he found that ‘ the music suggested rather a different story ’ . |
| 11 | He thereby substantially improved the lethal effect of attack . |
| 12 | I think he secretly always wondered if it might have been more entertaining . |
| 13 | This hint of physical as well as psychological confrontation with primitivism predictably gives rise to the corresponding image of city apocalypse , presented by Charles , the character with whom as Eliot told Martin Browne he most closely identified . |
| 14 | He said what he most probably felt at the time , which was the heat of the moment . |
| 15 | In this , of the great poet-critics of the past the one he most nearly resembles is Dryden , whose criticism virtually always comes before us as the preface to a volume of original imaginative writing — including translations which , in this too like Pound , Dryden considers no less ‘ original ’ than poems he has made up for himself . |
| 16 | And again he looked around , this time for the devil who was tempting him with the prospect he most profoundly desired . |
| 17 | Within the region of the Seine basin where Charles 's power was concentrated and where he most often stayed , the counts were of the " lesser " variety . |
| 18 | He most certainly had few fond memories of the latter employment , but it was the former which caused him to curse his luck at having been born in Derby . |
| 19 | But he most definitely had n't . |
| 20 | So OK , without too much effort she had offended Ven Gajdusek , it seemed , but he most definitely had said he would think about giving her the interview ! |
| 21 | He claimed he had n't any but he jolly well had ! |
| 22 | " And has n't he little enough to worry about , " Patrick smiled , the accent and phrase coming straight from his childhood . |
| 23 | He felt awkward and so he mostly just took the piss out of it to get through . |
| 24 | He rarely even came down from town . ’ |
| 25 | He rarely actually touched her , apart from taking her arm . |
| 26 | However , he needs Lennie in a strange way , and he rarely really means what he says . |
| 27 | One can rarely dip into a Pollini recording as a series of edited highlights ( except perhaps as a demonstration of superlative digital execution ) , as he rarely ever plays ‘ for the moment ’ ; one is irresistibly drawn towards hearing the whole work , as only then does the integrity of his vision register with its fullest potency . |
| 28 | He apparently once told the Shah that the Russians did not count . |
| 29 | I had some guys come up , and they were , they were really pissed off with me because , my mum sort of like , this guy just done this with th th the stall next door , but he left some stuff that he obviously already had things of , which he did n't think it was worth him buying , and this guy came round , and they were obviously from one of these , you know how you get erm , secondhand erm record stores |
| 30 | He obviously still took us for a couple holidaying together , and his embarrassment at intruding took the form of ignoring my presence . |