Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He thereby pays less attention than he might to interpreting the science of art as a cultural phenomenon . |
| 3 | 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 ) . |
| 4 | He eventually incorporated this idea into his wider plan for tackling unemployment , the 1930 Mosley Memorandum . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He rarely showed any emotion , even when people presented him with the most heart-felt outpourings of their fears and hopes . |
| 8 | He rarely paid any attention to the plays progressing below him . |
| 9 | He apparently reckoned any pressure would n't be effective . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 11 | He obviously expected some sort of reaction . |
| 12 | He obviously intended this remark to conclude their conversation for he half-turned to call his grooms . |
| 13 | No new employees come into the Smurfit organisation without his say-so and he personally approves all capital expenditure . |
| 14 | But he impatiently dismissed this line of thought . |
| 15 | I have marmalade on toast right and he only said this morning and he said do n't forget the marmalade , he 's chucking the jar out . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'm expecting something from an old friend and I just remembered he only has this address for me . ’ |
| 17 | He , it , it is , he gets on very well with her , I mean he only sees each other |
| 18 | ‘ He so wanted that job as a mime artiste . |
| 19 | He did not know why he suddenly felt this way ; he was not angry with himself , or with us , and he was not crying . |
| 20 | He suddenly felt some sympathy for her : her intentions had been evil but Jane could hardly have foreseen the appalling results of her maliciousness — if indeed Jim Lancaster had stormed off and murdered his wife . |
| 21 | He suddenly found this notion very funny and burst into-laughter . |
| 22 | The pre-existence of matriliny was important for Engels because he wrongly believed that matriliny , as opposed to patriliny , was associated with communal corporate descent groups . |
| 23 | So , so , he looked , he looked round at me , he looked at the the other group waiting in front and he was , he flashed his lights at them so that , they realised what was going on by then , they moved forward a bit , I moved back a bit and he just had enough room he reversed right up close to me and then got out but he just had enough room to get out , and since then I wo n't park over the driveway up there , cos you can bet your life the one driveway along that road and you parked in front is the one that somebody wants to get into . |
| 24 | So , so , he looked , he looked round at me , he looked at the the other group waiting in front and he was , he flashed his lights at them so that , they realised what was going on by then , they moved forward a bit , I moved back a bit and he just had enough room he reversed right up close to me and then got out but he just had enough room to get out , and since then I wo n't park over the driveway up there , cos you can bet your life the one driveway along that road and you parked in front is the one that somebody wants to get into . |
| 25 | He just had some time to spare waiting for Maria Luisa to return and why not fill it with a bit of Ruth-baiting ? |
| 26 | And I had the impression that , he just adopted this child through sheer sorrow and sympathy for her but , did not say , erm , categorically that that was his . |
| 27 | Nowadays he just smoked all night ( the same brand as Madame ) and kept a glass of iced water constantly beside him — Little David would keep it fresh and cold without being asked . |
| 28 | He does n't want a running file , he just needs enough detail to know who 's running things , who 's in charge of it , with phone numbers so we can pass people on to the correct person , okay . |
| 29 | But when Grandma died he just lost all interest in the garden , and since no one had the time to take it on , it became neglected . |
| 30 | he just bought that field and that , that farm , all , all the barns were there to start with . |