Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rather relished the idea of secret investigations . |
| 2 | But Coleridge found that he rather enjoyed the rolling of the deck , and held long and facetious conversations with a talkative fellow passenger . |
| 3 | Then he rather undercut the room 's prim pity for him by roaring with laughter . |
| 4 | He did not feel that he would want to return to university , so he decided to apply for an unclassed ‘ War Honours ’ degree — ‘ probably not worth the paper it 's written on ’ , but perhaps enough to get him started in some profession , such as colonial service or , possibly , journalism ; he rather liked the idea of becoming a parliamentary correspondent for a newspaper . |
| 5 | Besides , he rather liked the idea of a well-paid break in Japan . |
| 6 | Jack had been to tea at Tina 's house several times already and he rather liked the estate 's atmosphere , which was friendly and rackety , despite the fact that most of the inhabitants were out of work . |
| 7 | He vastly enriched the world by his inventions . |
| 8 | He courageously liberalised the economy , with both painful and fruitful results . |
| 9 | He slowly imagines the character , moulds her into shape , and then — probably the last thing of all — pops a pair of glass eyes into those empty sockets . |
| 10 | He slowly lifted the hand which had been clutching his , opened it and very gently implanted a kiss on its palm , and laughed when she gasped at the caress . |
| 11 | He slowly kissed every part of her and suddenly he stopped , his hand running gently over her thigh , his uneven breathing easing as he explored her skin . |
| 12 | To her horror he slowly turned the canoe out into the lake instead of in to shore . |
| 13 | When he had finished his tea , he slowly climbed the staircase . |
| 14 | He liked the softness of silk , the slippery feel of it under his hands as he slowly undressed a woman in a shadowed bedroom . |
| 15 | The act of writing can be difficult at times , but he predicts that he 'll soon become the first Parkinson 's Disease patient to abandon drugs altogether as he slowly leaves a life of disability behind him . |
| 16 | She watched him covertly while he deftly impaled a wedge of fillet steak on his fork , and put it in his mouth . |
| 17 | With relief she saw McGee descend to her rescue and she slipped into the background as he deftly took the Bishop 's coat . |
| 18 | ‘ Where are you from , Doctor ? ’ he deftly turned the conversation . |
| 19 | He deftly drops a charge next to it and returns the vehicle . |
| 20 | He thereby puts the patient in a position to make a decision which is informed . |
| 21 | He gladly accepted a lift back to Stromness on Venturous and repaid me by filling in some details for my report on the development of the terminal and the Piper Oil Field which would be supplying it . |
| 22 | One of the satisfactions , at the secular level , of which he keenly felt the lack was in the gastronomic sphere . |
| 23 | Instead , he secretly married the daughter of Lord Howard of Effingham . |
| 24 | Where the needs of discourse or the story require more specific information then a modifier is used : ‘ the boy ’ becomes ‘ the small fat boy ’ or ‘ he obtains the ticket ’ becomes ‘ he secretly obtains the ticket ’ . |
| 25 | I could make it a fairy-tale instead , if I wanted to , Anyway , It 's the capital of the empire ; a courtier starts a liaison with one of the princesses ; the demands she and the impersonate on his time get to be too much , so he secretly has an android made to impersonate him at the endless court rituals and boring receptions ; nobody notices . |
| 26 | Once he vigorously defended the CAP , now he is dismantling it . |
| 27 | With his teeth teasing her nipples she was driven beyond argument as he skilfully peeled the costume lower , easing the material over the curve of her hips until the soft triangle of golden curls was unveiled at the junction of stomach and thighs . |
| 28 | He skilfully manoeuvred the motorboat past the bobbing gondolas , which were moored to a forest of striped poles . |
| 29 | He skilfully guided the conversation back to the sinister events surrounding Selkirk 's death for the murder had affected everybody . |
| 30 | ‘ Asked me to keep an eye on you , ’ he repeated mildly as he skilfully opened the bottle of wine . |