Example sentences of "[adv] he [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Perhaps he still has a chance , ’ said a western diplomat in Pakistan , ‘ but it looks as though events have overtaken him . |
| 2 | Perhaps he only wanted a cigarette , or a couple of bob for the meter . |
| 3 | So he wisely avoided a clash of horns in front of the herd . |
| 4 | There 's a reason the little corner shops do that you see , that corner shop especially he always has a blackboard outside |
| 5 | He had his own clergy attached to his cathedral , and gradually he eventually acquired a parish clergy over whom he could sometimes exercise control . |
| 6 | Even now he still looks a beast of a man . ’ |
| 7 | Now he usually got a car for sale . |
| 8 | When the arrangement was revealed two weeks ago he immediately became a member of staff and said the advantage had amounted to only £810 a year . |
| 9 | From 6pm to 7pm he usually has a meeting with the group chief executive , and then informal meetings with executives who are still around . |
| 10 | Then he carefully moves a pawn one little square and leans back like he 's changed the whole pattern of the game . |
| 11 | Then he actually made a paper aeroplane so that she had an example in front of her that she can look at to see what she is aiming for . |
| 12 | But then he never missed a trick . |
| 13 | Here we can see Sheikh Haj Amin al-Husseini shaking hands with the leader of the SS , there he proudly inspects a volunteer Muslim contingent of the Wehrmacht . |
| 14 | There he boldly repeated a story he had heard about Henry 's relations with the sister of Anne Boleyn [ q.v. ] and her mother . |
| 15 | dare I say it , but did his inability last season to recognize the poor defence we had and his obsession with midfielders imply that maybe he still has a lot to learn ? |
| 16 | It is sometimes implied that all this changed when that shrewd lawyer , John XXII , became pope , yet he readily promoted a number of Edward 's episcopal candidates ; moreover , from John , no less than from Clement , Edward II received the bounty of papal taxation of the clergy . |
| 17 | And every now and again he probably gets a shade nervous at keeping cash under the floor-boards or wherever he puts it , and starts spreading the load . ’ |
| 18 | From the early 1820s onwards he also designed a number of churches in a conventional Gothic style , but in some of his later works , such as his alterations to Broughton Hall , Yorkshire ( 1838–41 ) and Flasby Hall , Yorkshire ( 1840 ) he experimented with the picturesque Italianate manner . |
| 19 | He hated other people 's leaving him for bed , and when he saw a hard mood ahead he often took a sleeping pill at supper to stop himself from being clamorous , though at the same time he found his terror about the end of a day daft in a creature who was surely intended by build to signify immortal fun . |