Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah David said he 's not too bothered , would he rather take some beans and the toaster ? |
| 2 | 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 |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He thereby pays less attention than he might to interpreting the science of art as a cultural phenomenon . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He eventually incorporated this idea into his wider plan for tackling unemployment , the 1930 Mosley Memorandum . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Later , in his book Aromatherapie , he describes how he successfully treated several long-term psychiatric patients with essential oils . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | When Gaitskell met the chairmen on 22 July 1948 , however , he mercilessly exposed many of their arguments as the specious reasoning of bigoted men . |
| 16 | When he duly did this , he was one day out of time . |
| 17 | At home he rarely had more than a piece of toast and marmalade for breakfast , but when he was away he ate the whole cooked breakfast . |
| 18 | Since today they [ the chorus ] are almost all excellent musicians and the maître [ Rey ] is very skilful , he rarely uses this latter means , and one almost never notices the way he exercises his influence . |
| 19 | He rarely showed any emotion , even when people presented him with the most heart-felt outpourings of their fears and hopes . |
| 20 | He rarely paid any attention to the plays progressing below him . |
| 21 | The only trouble was that he never seemed to bother too much with punctuation — he apparently left that to me ! ’ |
| 22 | He apparently reckoned any pressure would n't be effective . |
| 23 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 24 | Is it the case that he merely dismisses those submissions with which he does not agree and proceeds in an autocratic fashion ? |
| 25 | Cos I mean , you could say he was biased but I mean he , he obviously thinks this is actually what 's happening . |
| 26 | He obviously expected some sort of reaction . |
| 27 | So far , rather surprisingly in view of his family 's origins , he says very little , but he obviously understand much of what is said to him . |
| 28 | That is understandable , especially as he obviously has such delightful children . |
| 29 | He obviously intended this remark to conclude their conversation for he half-turned to call his grooms . |
| 30 | No new employees come into the Smurfit organisation without his say-so and he personally approves all capital expenditure . |