Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He deftly stepped to one side , the bear tore into the cabin . |
| 2 | Peter , however , demurred at this and asked Keiran to help out generally at the event , which he duly did in great style . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Without looking back into the car he suddenly drawled in good English : |
| 6 | He suddenly swam into vocal range again . |
| 7 | He constantly fiddled with that badge of office , a ready-made , multicoloured , bow tie , as he talked to Jane . |
| 8 | She smiled calmly back at him , her teeth snapping together when he just laughed in open disbelief . |
| 9 | She tried to tell him that hospitals had been using such beds for years , but he just went into another tantrum . |
| 10 | He just brought along some typing . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 ? |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ’ She narrowed her eyes , then tilted her head slightly , indicating the warrant card he still held in one hand . |
| 15 | He always went to Mass fasting and , for the first time that morning , he was aware of feeling weak , even paradoxically a little sick . |
| 16 | He knew that he always operated at full efficiency when driven by anger ; from now on , he was suddenly sure , he was in control of this bloody conference . |
| 17 | The first thing he had thought of when he awoke that morning was that it was his mother 's birthday , 25 May , and he had been thinking about it ever since , as he always did on that day . |
| 18 | He always remained in close touch with the French Protestant community in London and many of his works have bilingual titles . |
| 19 | On the few occasions when I had ventured a criticism , he always picked on some word or expression I used to prove his point , claiming that it was a subconscious betrayal of my true nature and my real thought . |
| 20 | ‘ For the first half-dozen years of Scrutiny I had no post and no salary , and was hard put to it to make a living , ’ he once wrote in characteristic vein . |
| 21 | Both have been chronicled in this book , and perhaps we can say now of Eliot what he once said of another poet , " We also understand the poetry better when we know more about the man . " |
| 22 | He once said of this discovery : |
| 23 | Just as he once battled for supreme fitness , he has poured his energy into learning to speak again . |
| 24 | Although Gould might have increased his funds through sponsorship , he wisely insisted on remaining independent of any institution , reserving the rewards of his labours for no one but himself . |
| 25 | Charles Wilson broadly agreed , while Humphrey spoke as if directly coached by the British ( he also anticipated in striking fashion the language of Henry Kissinger in the early 1970s ) . |
| 26 | He also engaged in endless litigation against the media which he considered was misrepresenting him . |
| 27 | He also engaged in open controversy with John Bramhall , Bishop of Derry , about liberty and necessity . |
| 28 | He also kept in constant touch with his brother-in-law , the army secretary Sir William Clarke [ q.v . ] . |
| 29 | De Monte was a quiet , pious man who excelled in the madrigale spirituale which he also produced in great quantity , a celibate who never forgot he was an ecclesiastic ; Wert 's temperament was very different . |
| 30 | He also wrote at this time The Advocate ( 1652 ) , in defence of the Navigation Act , and a related economic tract , Free Ports ( 1652 ) . |