Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I fink 'e still misses those 'orses . ’ |
| 2 | 'E really loved those 'orses . |
| 3 | In winter when she entertained she would send him outside to chop more wood for their open fire . |
| 4 | They had sent him home to do two years in a military prison and his dark oily skin had suffered while inside . |
| 5 | How it must sicken him now to see Pádraic Flynn leaping aboard the Reynolds bandwagon , ballot box in one hand , scapular in the other . |
| 6 | Philip is ironic also about his tendency to think in terms of ‘ higher ’ literature , and he discredits the validity of a quotation from Eliot , when it comes into his mind , simply on the grounds that he has been too corrupted by contemporary culture for anything that occurs to him spontaneously to have lasting value : |
| 7 | Him immediately established complete domination over all his companions . |
| 8 | ‘ Furthermore , I told him either to provide substantive proof of his allegations or be prepared to be sued for defamation of character . ’ |
| 9 | You 'd sent him upstairs to make some sort of excuse to Nicky Kai ? |
| 10 | He rather distrusted Gallic logic . |
| 11 | Yeah David said he 's not too bothered , would he rather take some beans and the toaster ? |
| 12 | Would n't he rather wait twenty-four hours ? ’ |
| 13 | If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him . |
| 14 | His business skills and integrity earned him wide respect , and a strong personality reinforced his large physical presence — he latterly weighed eighteen stones . |
| 15 | He thereby pays less attention than he might to interpreting the science of art as a cultural phenomenon . |
| 16 | Kubrick can posit only a mystical promise of future ( individual ) development because he fundamentally has little faith in human nature or society , unlike Clarke ( most sci-fi writers seem to have a deep-down streak of optimism , even when as downbeat as Philip K Dick or as ironic as Kurt Vonnegut ) . |
| 17 | He eventually incorporated this idea into his wider plan for tackling unemployment , the 1930 Mosley Memorandum . |
| 18 | When he eventually leaves that employer how far can the latter control the ex-employee 's ability to deal with the clients which he brought with him . |
| 19 | He successfully performed vesical lithotomy in the horse , and also amputated the equine penis . |
| 20 | Now he felt his brain slowly expanding , the noise and sunshine seemed to have entered his skull , and he badly wanted some food to settle the turbid churning of his feelings . |
| 21 | He was accordingly arrested and taken to Vine Street Police Station where he duly provided two specimens of breath in the intoximeter . |
| 22 | The clear , imperious voice , lately gagged by the folds of an archer 's cloak , was singing gently to itself , and did not fall silent even when he instinctively took one dancing step back from the collision , and then as readily translated the movement into a forward lunge that almost passed Adam 's startled guard . |
| 23 | He rarely made fundamental mistakes and never , she suspected , about a man 's scientific ability . |
| 24 | He rarely ate red meat . |
| 25 | He rarely opened new vistas and he rarely inspired his supporters . |
| 26 | He rarely showed any emotion , even when people presented him with the most heart-felt outpourings of their fears and hopes . |
| 27 | He rarely paid any attention to the plays progressing below him . |
| 28 | Snell 's wife was Susannah and he apparently had one son . |
| 29 | He apparently reckoned any pressure would n't be effective . |
| 30 | ‘ You know , there is a story in Malta , ’ he said drily , ‘ that when St Paul the Apostle was shipwrecked on our shores , back in 60 AD , and he performed a miracle by removing the poison from a snakebite , he merely transferred that poison on to the tongues of Maltese women . ’ |