Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He deftly stepped to one side , the bear tore into the cabin . |
| 2 | He vigorously defended against all comers the enormous expense of bringing La Scala to Scotland . |
| 3 | It fell to William , the only son left in London , to prove the will , which he duly did on 22 October at the Principal Probate Registry ; the body was laid to rest at Abney Park Cemetery , Stoke Newington , grave no. 66,417 . |
| 4 | Peter , however , demurred at this and asked Keiran to help out generally at the event , which he duly did in great style . |
| 5 | He apparently continued in this office until 1655 , when , with essentially unchanged duties , he was appointed one of the two chamberlains of the Exchequer and keeper of its records . |
| 6 | After a spell in private practice , Vial was made equerry to Louis XVI and chef de manège of the Lyons riding academy , a post he apparently held for some years , but could not retain . |
| 7 | But his grandfather he only saw in brief glimpses , when James called in the hope of being given a shilling . |
| 8 | He only played in four Tests but the sweater ( and his knotted silk scarf ) became his uniform . |
| 9 | I could no longer talk or laugh freely , as I knew he only approved of serious moods and studies . |
| 10 | One can see , then , a philosophical crux in the very nature of the Ring , one that was certainly apparent and deeply interesting to Tolkien , and one which he furthermore expressed with great care and deliberation . |
| 11 | Without looking back into the car he suddenly drawled in good English : |
| 12 | He suddenly swam into vocal range again . |
| 13 | ‘ When can we go home ? ’ he suddenly enquired in piercing tones . |
| 14 | He constantly fiddled with that badge of office , a ready-made , multicoloured , bow tie , as he talked to Jane . |
| 15 | She smiled calmly back at him , her teeth snapping together when he just laughed in open disbelief . |
| 16 | She tried to tell him that hospitals had been using such beds for years , but he just went into another tantrum . |
| 17 | He just brought along some typing . |
| 18 | He finally returned with two chunks of roughly cut bread , a slab of cheese and a tiny tin jug of milk . |
| 19 | He nevertheless shared with other critics a concern about the untrained , unregulated , and unsupervised adolescent work-force , and found it impossible to separate completely the behaviour of these young workers from the larger problem of unemployment . |
| 20 | He soon got through 90 guilders , which his father thought an excessive amount . |
| 21 | Intended at first for the church , he was sent to Göttingen , but he soon turned to legal studies and the pursuit of mineralogy under Johann Friedrich Blumenbach . |
| 22 | He soon turned to Jewish studies , his interest from childhood , when he had a traditional religious education and learned Hebrew from the Cairo Genizah scholar , Jacob Mann . |
| 23 | He thus pioneered in this country the discursive , witty , exuberant , and surrealist style of humour he bequeathed to his close friend J. B. Morton [ q.v. ] , who took the column over in 1924 and developed it through half a century into an art form . |
| 24 | Mr Logan , 54 , said : ‘ He normally stayed at top hotels . |
| 25 | ‘ I have a business engagement , ’ she excused , and wondered for a moment if Lubor had guessed that her business engagement for that evening was with his employer , or if perhaps he already knew from some office discussion with him that she was dining with Ven ? |
| 26 | He needed no telling twice , but alas the episode was fatal to his position at United Racecourses and he thereupon turned to other activities . |
| 27 | " They behaved like imbeciles " , he dismissively remarked on 30 September . |
| 28 | If Ivanov was a spy , then I am sure he obtained far more strategic information by legitimate methods than he ever did by covert means . |
| 29 | He stopped short of issuing a blanket backing for the Tories , saying he would vote Liberal Democrat in his own east London constituency because he still believed in proportional representation . |
| 30 | He still paid with violent headaches , but it could have been so much worse . |