Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently he fought with incredible bravery at Lincoln , only retreating when the King was captured . |
| 2 | Unfortunately , they played in blue strips and Nicholas could not face the prospect of signing for a team that wore the same colour of shirts as Rangers , and so he returned to Celtic Boys Club to await his calling from Paradise . |
| 3 | So he came along this morning and picked it up ! |
| 4 | And so he drifts towards vanishing point : ‘ One may argue about everything endlessly , but from me nothing has come but negation , with no magnanimity and no force . |
| 5 | So he plastered on pink paint — but forgot to get planning permission first . |
| 6 | So he plastered on pink paint — but forgot to get planning permission first . |
| 7 | So he turned to other forms of theatre , directing operas , writing and staging revues and musicals , to which he brought new ideas and methods that were widely admired . |
| 8 | So he staggered about ten yards and fell down with a moan on some pallets . |
| 9 | In doing so he diverges from common sense . |
| 10 | So he stood for ten minutes at the window watching soldiers tossing bundles of equipment into the gurg-ling FV 432s parked around the parade ground and feeling the deep contentment of seeing other people working very hard very early in the day . |
| 11 | He criticised the backwardness of Islamic orthodoxy ; nevertheless he wrote on 17 October 1936 , ‘ a soul that was only superficially Islamic has become a soul convinced of Islam … a soul that daily rendered homage to HIM ’ . |
| 12 | Silently Joshua returned his stare , then made what sounded like a snort which quickly became a chuckle until finally he exploded into outright laughter . |
| 13 | He was pursued all over Galloway , Carrick and Kyle , and given little respite , but still he preached at well-attended conventicles , baptised children , and officiated at weddings . |
| 14 | Thereafter he spoke on two occasions ( 1723 and 1725 ) on customs matters , and in 1726 he published a pamphlet entitled ‘ An Essay on the Public Debts ’ which in 1727 prompted a rejoinder , ‘ A State of the National Debt ’ , reputedly by William Pulteney , Earl of Bath [ q.v . ] . |
| 15 | The closer she moves towards death , the more he comes to passionate life . |
| 16 | Miller had also known this to flower at Hampton Court , although more than once he speaks with some disparagement of inefficient gardeners at this Palace . |
| 17 | God help us with the economy , if he comes up with a crackpot idea like he did over these grading appeals . |
| 18 | A year later he died after suffering months of agonizing pain . |
| 19 | A year later he worked for six months for the Eastern Health and Social Services Board in the Belfast area . |
| 20 | A year later he worked for six months in the Belfast area . |
| 21 | About a week later he explained at more length that the committee had seen all the drawings and liked them with this one exception . |
| 22 | In his collection of essays on genius the distinguished neurologist , the late Sir William Russell Brain , concluded about Smart that ‘ clearly he suffered from manic-depressive insanity or cyclothymia ’ and there is much to support that diagnosis . |
| 23 | For Locke , God made all men free and equal and set no one in power over them ; similarly he gave to all men the earth and its fruits by which to support their life . |
| 24 | So Stuart was going first , and er he would pick on this , you know , supposedly he talking to this girl sprawled out and |
| 25 | He had made various bids at drawing her out , to no avail ; now he felt in sympathetic collusion — thus had he survived his own schooldays . |
| 26 | Now he watched in horrified silence as Donald cut himself a giant slice of poisoned meat . |
| 27 | Now he called at this house and said that he was er visiting for |
| 28 | Well he said on that tape , I gave them a fat cheque of six thousand pounds . |
| 29 | Well he got through fifty quid on Saturday and Sunday so that 's forty pints in n it ? |
| 30 | Oh no no , if he , if he tried to pull a fast one we 've already had one like that th that came in and bought a set unfortunately his father paid by cheque , oh no , well he paid by two cheques which , they had a card on them I know very well they ca n't stop them very well and he went out and er , and er the T V was only in the car and he went round a corner quick and he went brrrm like that you know |