Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He liked the softness of silk , the slippery feel of it under his hands as he slowly undressed a woman in a shadowed bedroom . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | She watched him covertly while he deftly impaled a wedge of fillet steak on his fork , and put it in his mouth . |
| 4 | He deftly drops a charge next to it and returns the vehicle . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Dad Ron had by now qualified as an accountant and he eventually landed a job with the local council . |
| 7 | I am sure it will benefit Gareth Simmonds when he eventually becomes a panel referee . |
| 8 | He had his own clergy attached to his cathedral , and gradually he eventually acquired a parish clergy over whom he could sometimes exercise control . |
| 9 | However , his hold on power was weakened by the result and he eventually formed a minority coalition with the Liberals ( Venstre ) . |
| 10 | He eventually became a prebend of St. Paul 's and Archdeacon of Leicester ; had it not been for his friendship with Bishop Crewe who sympathized with the Stuarts , he could have expected to become a bishop . |
| 11 | There is a reference in a letter from one of his dependents that he eventually took a passage home from Corfu on a naval vessel in 1843 ; and that an 1851 census shows that he was living with his wife and two of his daughters at Longhorsley , his birthplace . |
| 12 | Very quickly , however , his superiors recognized his talent for understanding and winning the goodwill of Africans , as when he successfully resolved a dispute with the rulers of Old Calabar , upon which the settlement was largely dependent for foodstuffs . |
| 13 | At home , he successfully advocated a return to fiscal orthodoxy , ‘ sound money ’ , and the gold standard . |
| 14 | He also experimented with lighter-than-air flight : he wrote three papers on airships in the Philosophical Magazine ( February 1816–July 1817 ) of Alexander Tilloch [ q.v. ] , and in 1820 he successfully flew a model airship at Brompton . |
| 15 | He also built several handsome examples in masonry ; and , most important , at the Ouseburn and Willington Dene bridges ( 1836–9 , demolished ) on the Newcastle and North Shields Railway and in a number of subsequent examples he successfully employed a system of laminated timber arches , which , for a short time , was widely imitated in railway-bridge construction . |
| 16 | His face was wrinkled and he badly needed a shave . |
| 17 | Despite everything he had drunk already that night he badly wanted a brandy — and a large one at that . |
| 18 | To move over from religion into art with his newly liberated soul , he badly needed a bridge — a Dutch bridge . |
| 19 | When he least needed the attention of a photographer one was sure to be on call and when he most needed a month of solitude away from screaming headlines , something from his past was inevitably dug up . |
| 20 | Armed with some facts and figures , he confidentially approached a number of very senior civil servants within the Department of the Environment . |
| 21 | It was Banting , the crown undertaker , who provided the model for the future ; for he rarely saw a corpse , contracting out at every stage of the proceedings . |
| 22 | In the other groups the figure with the thunderbolt can only be Zeus though he rarely lacks a beard . |
| 23 | He is always well-dressed , usually in smart suits and casual shirts , though in deference to the Jewish tradition which he discreetly adorns , he rarely wears a tie . |
| 24 | He much resembles a psycholeech |
| 25 | Amongst all the abuse , he especially valued a letter from Swinburne , a fellow-sufferer at the hands of critics , in which he praised the novel as beautiful and terrible in its pathos . |
| 26 | He apparently wrote a continuation of the unfinished commentary of Aquinas on Aristotle 's Perihermeneias , as well as a continuation of Aquinas 's commentary on Aristotle 's De generatione et corruptione . |
| 27 | What causes offence is that he merely represents a shifting of values for the mass of young people . |
| 28 | Is he merely discarding a belief or is he grieving a person ? |
| 29 | Secondly he is concerned for the church in Rome , a church that he has never visited , though he obviously knew a lot of the leaders there . |
| 30 | He obviously made a habit of this . |