Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] he [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Yet every six months or so he found another excuse to get in touch with her .
2 Corbett could have sworn that momentarily he glimpsed another figure , shadow-like , but fled on .
3 This was the Preface to a selection of the poems , which Leavis was to handle roughly , as he felt that Eliot had no business to be praising Tennyson , any more than later he had any business to be endorsing Kipling .
4 Nevertheless , he felt that intellectually he understood both emotions better than his friend .
5 Sergeant Dixon ( stripes newly stitched ) was also enjoying himself , although initially he had serious doubts about whether he — or anyone else , for that matter — could successfully handle his assignment in the ridiculously short period of the three or four hours which Morse had asserted as ‘ ample ’ .
6 And so he asked this girl Jane and , and then he asked me and erm and er had I sat down and thought about it I could have said well er what I thought , you know , the correct way er but I thought well there 's correct and there 's correct and I think the right way is to write to it and to say yes thanks
7 Pitt-Rivers was well aware that excavation destroys evidence as it uncovers it , and so he kept meticulous records .
8 Then indeed , after a long time , Childebert considered what ought to be added , and he instituted from 78 to 83 , which he is known to have imposed worthily , and so he transmitted these writings to his brother Chlothar .
9 A shepherd can never be sure at what hour he 'll be done for the day , but the priest 's man leaves Upton as soon as Vespers is over , and so he did this time .
10 " His hair has been better since he 's been with Sarah Brightman , " confides one long-term associate , " and perhaps he developed more ofa sense of humour .
11 If only he had some tools
12 If only he had some security , if only his art supplies were replenished .
13 All his life , the fool thinks that if only he tried another woman , or holiday , or whatever , then this time he would really catch the mysterious something .
14 He was eventually paid off — and apparently he got more money for not appearing than playing his set .
15 He was eventually paid off — and apparently he got more money for not appearing than playing his set .
16 How firmly he clung to doctrine , and much he feared certain dangers
17 He always noticed pools of oil and empty coke cans round the house if ever he passed that way .
18 He still has sufficient force , passion and reputation to get his way if he puts his case forcefully enough and yesterday he spent some time in conclave with Carrick , Neil Hartley and coach Doug Padgett .
19 In 1652 , on the death of his father , he inherited the estate of Deepdene , near Dorking , Surrey , and thereafter he devoted much effort to its beautification , constructing an elaborate Italianate garden of the kind popular in seventeenth-century England , with terraces landscaped on a U-shaped hillside , and with appendages including a laboratory .
20 He offered an as yo as you read it there in the opening of chapter two , he offered her drink , at meal times she was to eat the food provided for Boaz servants he gave to her the extra portion of parched corn and also he provided extra gleaning for her .
21 Despite highlighting er Wilson 's intellectual and physical achievements , for instance , he er wrote a very er , well respected book called Con Congressional Government in his earlier cabinet career , and also he initiated domestic reforms , the book is er generally quite scornful , reporting character .
22 He has just hit his best form and now he gets this injury .
23 At the back of his premises he owned a used-car lot which faced on a less fashionable avenue , and here he sold second-hand cars , trucks and motorboats .
24 " Now as soon as Rabscuttle got inside the King 's palace , he scurried off and went into one of the dark burrows ; and here he hid all day .
25 And he waited , and then he heard one word come back , spoken in a whisper , she must have been close to sleep .
26 And then he made all sorts of tactless remarks about the state of the body .
27 and we 'd left it , and not bothered and then he says one day I might as well sling this out it 's no good is it ?
28 I mean in in the midweek game against us he had very little play and then he produced one ball that got them an equalizer and I suppose that 's what Frank would look for now .
29 And then he saw two men .
30 And then he uses same tea bag again .
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