Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rather looked like one of the comics on television who will always wear his khaki shorts halfway to his ankles . |
| 2 | He rather speaks of ‘ honour ’ . |
| 3 | He rather took to Bunny , but it was obvious the stage-manager was a crony of Potter 's and it was advisable , this early on , to leave well alone . |
| 4 | He rather thought of Kate as a country person . |
| 5 | But he lacks unction ; he rather plays with his text |
| 6 | It is actually , it makes him feel rather sad erm and also rather funny , and therefore , he rather comes over a rather pathetic creature . |
| 7 | We still refer to certain compounds as being ‘ hermetically sealed ’ , in reference to the touch of his magic caduceus which he latterly bestowed upon AESCULAPIUS , the god of healing . |
| 8 | So , for example , he compulsively returns to the idea that history might consist of several totalizations rather than one : |
| 9 | Something is his unconscious , and the planets or children are aspects of his life that return to him as he slowly readjusts to reality . |
| 10 | As he kissed her again he slowly felt for the gusset of her panties , pulled them to one side and entered her expertly . |
| 11 | He slowly straightened to his full height and she realised he had been sitting on the bed leaning over her . |
| 12 | The fourth shot struck again in the chest , slamming Doyle hard against the wall , leaving a bloody smear as he slowly slipped to the floor , his eyes half closed , the breath wheezing from his lungs . |
| 13 | As he slowly undressed in his room , he heard her come snivelling up the stairs . |
| 14 | He deftly stepped to one side , the bear tore into the cabin . |
| 15 | He deftly felt along the arm . |
| 16 | He presumably went by his own codes on the packet . |
| 17 | The fifth case belonged to a different category : a gentleman named Thomas Arundell was given leave to demise a tenement and three yardlands which he presumably treated as an investment . |
| 18 | He presumably bought into it with his Foreign Office gratuity . |
| 19 | He was one of 4 youths who attacked jogger , Paul Lanighan because he accidently bumped into them in the street . |
| 20 | The thirty five year old man was set on by four youths after he accidently bumped into them . |
| 21 | On 2 December 1793 , having adopted the alias of Silas Tomkyn Comberbache , he secretly enlisted in the 15th Light Dragoons . |
| 22 | The Upchers did not want anything elaborate , and although Repton had been famous for castellated picturesqueness , here was the perfect chance to create simple neo-classicism , which was all he secretly cared for and the conventional essence of those first twenty years of the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | Mr Ward was arrested by the FBI in Washington on Thursday and charged with Theft Act offences relating to the £5.2m he secretly received from Guinness through an obscure offshore nominee company in May 1986 . |
| 24 | He does not see the different plants like an agriculturalist , nor the medicinal roots like a physician , but everything that he sees with his material eyes he secretly contemplates in his mind through spiritual vision . |
| 25 | He vigorously defended against all comers the enormous expense of bringing La Scala to Scotland . |
| 26 | Indeed , it was the man at the opposite end of the park , Sieb Dykstra , who had the busier afternoon as he produced three crucial saves , the middle one — he was backpedalling as he acrobatically tipped over a superb Pat McGinlay shot — being the pick of the bunch . |
| 27 | Professor Camille has thoroughly enjoyed himself in looking at such images , and he skilfully shares with us his delight and enthusiasm for what he has found . |
| 28 | They were ambling back , Joanna and her late hot lover , a tinker by the look of him , sodden with sex , Hope thought , she too carelessly satiated to fasten her dress properly , he altogether swaggering in the success of his rut . |
| 29 | ‘ I do get quite a lot of fan mail I suppose , ’ he eventually concedes after much probing . |
| 30 | Well my my mother had five children with her previous husband and my father met my mother while this fella was ill and he eventually died with T B and my father married my mother and took on these five children i in , in South Wales . |