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Example sentences of "[adj] he [adv] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	It was clear he already thought her beneath contempt and , if she was truthful with herself , that was a painful fact to accept .
2	Kinnock 's a funny he really is .
3	Funny he never fell foul of him .
4	Another show they did included a sketch in which Ken is one of two men discussing a third , now deceased , called ‘ Funny He Never Married ’ .
5	Dan 's questions were annoying Kate and if he was n't careful he just might end up on the receiving end of her tongue .
6	But because he knew that I and my group would be careful he happily let me use his basic materials — boards , palettes , etc. — and we brought our own paints and dyes and drawing materials .
7	Tom was clean and dry during the day shortly after his second birthday , but at over 3½ years old he still needs a nappy at night .
8	She realized she did n't know , could n't imagine , how old he really was .
9	And , as soon as I realised that , as soon as I thought about his breakdown , I started to worry , I started to see just how unstable he still was .
10	Sometimes she thought from the way he seemed to watch her that he might like her too but he had never said anything and Sally was beginning to be afraid he never would .
11	The yellow card for a foul on Jochim and but Laws will be relieved he certainly could have gone for that .
12	I have been in close contact with him in that apartment for three weeks and I 'm convinced he genuinely tried to secure that young man 's release safe and unharmed . ’
13	Burger leaned forward quickly and , lowering his voice , said : ‘ Returning to our earlier subject , Garland half believed himself to be impotent he probably was , but he was obsessed by that damned girl he married and although she was good to look at , that was all — she was an immoral woman !
14	But Bingham retorted : ‘ When Jack 's nervous he always seems to have a go .
15	Of course being nervous he often drank a little too much , so that when he finally looked up at the end of the night it would be with something like desperation , a fear that no one was going to ask him to leave with them ; but the way he looked at you also meant that you knew he would never say no , if you did ask .
16	SPANISH HOLIDAY GRAHAM TAYLOR took Gazza to Spain two weeks ago ‘ just for the trip ’ — but now the Lazio star is fit he still wo n't figure in the England starting line-up .
17	Everything that you see you laugh at , you 're lucky he always sets you up
18	He 's lucky he never died .
19	I impressed upon the doctor to really talk with Ron , and he said he had , but that Ron did n't seem to hear what he was saying , how ill he really was ; and when we hung up , I was really quite shaken .
20	He felt so ill he almost vomited over the leather-bound cover .
21	She was beautiful as well , and he remembered that Clarissa 's warning that she was both clever and dangerous , had drawn from him the rather feeble reply that when they were pretty he never noticed much else .
22	‘ He 's now able to concentrate solely on his football , and it 's beginning to dawn on him just how good he really is .
23	No no it 's , it 's very good he actually had a go and the rest of you were sitting there dumbfounded by the question .
24	My brother actually , Michael has been very good he still sees erm cos he 's always friends with and they 're really good friends .
25	I 'm sure he just heats it , I 'm sure he does n't actually boil it .
26	But he remained — though I 'm sure he honestly fought against it — a little ashamed of his mother .
27	I 'm sure he still loves you . ’
28	I 'll see Jimmy Warren and make sure he still wants to come with us . ’
29	Alan was well aware of his own gifts and of what they might lead him to become , but I am not sure he entirely welcomed his role as a leader of lesser men .
30	‘ I 'll make bloody sure he bloody knows , ’ he said , and went away .