Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rather distrusted Gallic logic . |
| 2 | Yeah David said he 's not too bothered , would he rather take some beans and the toaster ? |
| 3 | NO SNOW fell during the night and at 10.00 , after Erika had run her five kilometres under a dazzling blue sky , Karl ran and said that he thought he rather did that a brief tour of Berlin would be possible and that he would be waiting in the lounge of the Palast at 11.00 ; adding that Paul should meet them at the television Tower at 1.00 |
| 4 | Would n't he rather wait twenty-four hours ? ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His business skills and integrity earned him wide respect , and a strong personality reinforced his large physical presence — he latterly weighed eighteen stones . |
| 7 | This guy , yeah , he falls in love with this woman , takes her to his apartment and slowly , he 's a surgeon and he slowly amputates all her arms and legs and keeps her in a box . |
| 8 | He thereby pays less attention than he might to interpreting the science of art as a cultural phenomenon . |
| 9 | He thereby included hundreds of advisory committees and hundreds of judicial tribunals and many more bodies with no governmental function at all ( several public schools , for example ) . |
| 10 | 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 ) . |
| 11 | The librarian , fearful of fire , gently shooed Corbett out so the clerk went down to stroll in the monastery 's small herb garden while he rigorously analysed all he had learnt in his journey to Kinghorn . |
| 12 | There was no need whatsoever for him to ‘ take her over ’ — she knew that , and Travis knew that , and Naylor Massingham would create merry hell when he eventually knew that . |
| 13 | foolish but amiable young man courting Bella Wilfer , who transfers his affections to her younger sister Lavinia , to whom he eventually becomes engaged , after Bella goes to live with the Boffins . |
| 14 | Indeed , Mr Buckley was either too generous or too fool-hardy ( probably a bit of both ) for his own good , for he eventually went bankrupt . |
| 15 | He eventually incorporated this idea into his wider plan for tackling unemployment , the 1930 Mosley Memorandum . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He eventually stopped inquiring . |
| 18 | When he eventually turned eighteen his father told him he had no further objection to his being baptised , a decision based more on Rajiv 's co-operative attitude a year before than on his recent coming of age . |
| 19 | He eventually gave this one up and left them both threatening the car park attendant , but it took him half an hour to cross the street and ring the bell at No. 3 . |
| 20 | He gave renewed confidence and certainty to America after two troubled decades , his military actions were limited in scale and he eventually proved ready to talk with Moscow . |
| 21 | Adorno speaks from the vantage-point of modernism ( though , as we have seen , he arguably gives this too monolithic an interpretation ) : his ideal is an individual critique , which is negative in relation to society but also constitutes a positive synthesis — an alternative . |
| 22 | There he was particularly concerned with such questions as the size of convoys , which he successfully made larger , and the concerted offensive against U-boats in the Bay of Biscay on passage to and from their shore bases . |
| 23 | Later , in his book Aromatherapie , he describes how he successfully treated several long-term psychiatric patients with essential oils . |
| 24 | He successfully performed vesical lithotomy in the horse , and also amputated the equine penis . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | When Gaitskell met the chairmen on 22 July 1948 , however , he mercilessly exposed many of their arguments as the specious reasoning of bigoted men . |
| 27 | When he duly did this , he was one day out of time . |
| 28 | He was accordingly arrested and taken to Vine Street Police Station where he duly provided two specimens of breath in the intoximeter . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | On the debit side , he frustratingly falls short of any overarching analysis . |