Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rather hoped that Eleanor would say this , even though other girls had n't . |
| 2 | There were times , though , when he rather hoped a working-class bloke would take a shine to his wife and beat the hell out of her . |
| 3 | He rather hoped his wife would wake and catch him like this , unshaven , hair greasy and uncombed , and as he stood beside the bed he farted quite loudly , as if to remind her that she deserved someone as awful as him . |
| 4 | All the same he rather hoped it was n't coley , suitable Lenten fare though it might be . |
| 5 | He rather hoped she would complain so he could point out that incontestable fact . |
| 6 | Aveling preferred actresses , but they were more difficult to locate once he left New York , and he rather looked down on what passed as theatre in America , although he admired Buffalo Bill 's Wild West Show . |
| 7 | He rather looked like one of the comics on television who will always wear his khaki shorts halfway to his ankles . |
| 8 | He rather wished to pass on his experience to the rest of you , but felt that my column was a more appropriate medium for that purpose . |
| 9 | He rather distrusted Gallic logic . |
| 10 | ‘ I think he rather likes you , ’ Ginny said . |
| 11 | Why did he rather walk entirely unprotected , apart from the body armour . |
| 12 | He rather relished the idea of secret investigations . |
| 13 | The family had finished their supper when she got home , but her temper was soothed by her reception : Herr Nordern coming from the bedroom to greet her , Omi fussing , Erika getting her meal , even Paul helping her off with her coat , although he rather spoiled his effect by then chucking it over the back of a chair instead of hanging it up . |
| 14 | He rather speaks of ‘ honour ’ . |
| 15 | He rather took to Bunny , but it was obvious the stage-manager was a crony of Potter 's and it was advisable , this early on , to leave well alone . |
| 16 | In Manchester , he had shared a simple , newish little house with a succession of curates , and he rather thought , pacing his new Victorian Gothic halls , that he would like a whole army of curates with him now . |
| 17 | He rather thought of Kate as a country person . |
| 18 | He rather thought not . |
| 19 | He rather thought he 'd let him stew for a while ; with the murder investigation on , he could n't get far — or he 'd be a fool to try , and Peckham was no fool . |
| 20 | He rather thought they might be . |
| 21 | No , he did n't know what , if anything , they had taken away , nothing , he rather thought , but they had left it untidy . |
| 22 | But he lacks unction ; he rather plays with his text |
| 23 | But Coleridge found that he rather enjoyed the rolling of the deck , and held long and facetious conversations with a talkative fellow passenger . |
| 24 | In fact , a couple of weeks ago he confided to me that he rather enjoyed losing his temper . |
| 25 | One of his main interests was Italian art , but he rather felt he 'd like to keep that for himself , not muck it up with money and degrees . |
| 26 | Nicholas , in the course of these encounters , failed to meet John of Kinloch whose regard for him , he rather feared , would be unaltered . |
| 27 | If he was n't there , he rather feared Paul Lexington might have come to the end of his understudies . |
| 28 | On reflection , he rather regrets that they were n't looking out for each other . |
| 29 | Yeah David said he 's not too bothered , would he rather take some beans and the toaster ? |
| 30 | Then he rather undercut the room 's prim pity for him by roaring with laughter . |