Example sentences of "[prep] [conj] he [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His rehabilitation — from the leader they could not wait to get rid of because he represented high taxes , inflation and military failure ( over Iran ) , to the president everyone loves to cite as the model elder statesman -has been remarkable . |
| 2 | Midnight briefly intercepted his look , then turned to the side table , exchanging a platter of carved meats for cheesecake , as if he rejected any attempt to penetrate his wall of reserve . |
| 3 | Only Zed Juron was wholly uninjured — that slab of a man was so nimble at dodging , as if he had second sight — though a ricocheting shuriken had smashed his communicator . |
| 4 | He is a man of about fifty-five , with a quick ‘ nervous manner , as if he had pressing engagements elsewhere , which seems unlikely : the university has run out of steam and its faculty members are all jumping ship , if they can . |
| 5 | Sometimes it felt as if he had less substance than the images in this room . |
| 6 | He could imagine Galland , a small man who looked as if he had permanent indigestion . |
| 7 | ‘ I should think so , ’ he said severely , and paused , and swallowed as if he had some constriction , and then asked , ‘ Where were we ? |
| 8 | Meredith spoke as if he had some power over his cousin . |
| 9 | ‘ And it 's not as if he had any convictions of his own , ’ said his Auntie Ethel . |
| 10 | It is as if he glimpses absolute Truth in and through particular instances of truth . |
| 11 | He looked at Huy half-apologetically , cringing , as if he feared another blow . |
| 12 | Edouard looked at him , red in the face with indignation , reaching for the brandy-bottle , glancing towards his brother uneasily , as if he feared more self-justification would be needed . |
| 13 | He walked slowly , not daring to look at the drop on his right and becoming ever more aware of the cold , biting wind and eerie sense of loneliness , as if he hung half way between heaven and earth . |
| 14 | It was as if he exerted some kind of gravitational pull over her . |
| 15 | It was as if he needed this quality of attention to be fixed upon him in order to be completely silent . |
| 16 | It sounded as if he needed another pair of hands for the trip ahead — which was another reprieve so far as Robbie was concerned . |
| 17 | Durkheim 's view differed from Freud 's , however , in that he saw little possibility of happiness for people outside a normative societal structure . |
| 18 | This man came up to and he heard this chains . |
| 19 | ( 4 ) It is hereby declared that a person shall not be entitled to rely on the defence provided by subsection ( 1 ) above by reason of his reliance on information supplied by another , unless he shows that it was reasonable in all the circumstances for him to have relied on the information , having regard in particular ( a ) to the steps which he took , and those which might reasonably have been taken , for the purpose of verifying the information ; and ( b ) to whether he had any reason to disbelieve the information . |
| 20 | Fragment A is more difficult to analyse as the evidence is incomplete and the habit of keeping to a set rate of progress may not have evolved at the A stage of composition ; but it could have been completed between June 1758 and April 1759 , in a shorter or longer time depending on whether he wrote one verse or three each day . |