Example sentences of "[conj] [subord] he [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We ask of each person whether he did anything he should not have done such that he should be blamed for the deaths that followed , or whether he contributed to the accidents in such a way that , blameworthy or not , he should bear some portion of the damage or loss . |
| 2 | He knew that if he kept under the trees , he should be able to crest the Monument yet remain hidden from the mysterious workers . |
| 3 | The theory is that if he stayed with the females throughout the year , he would compete with them for food and would probably take the best of what was available . |
| 4 | His son admittedly would almost certainly be in less danger as a hostage than if he remained in the town . |
| 5 | It seemed a shame that while he stood in the Chuckwagon queue he called his girlfriend ‘ Tray ’ . |
| 6 | A vicar in Battersea told me the other day that when he went to the church festival of Christmas at the local primary school — one of the schools within his parish — there was plenty of Father Christmas and jingle bells , but not one reference to Jesus . |
| 7 | She allowed him to lead her back to the living-room , her defences momentarily lapsed so that when he paused on the threshold to slide an arm around her waist and draw her into his embrace she was too shocked to remonstrate . |
| 8 | He says that when he got into the room the double bed was alight , he picked up the babies and got them out as quickly as he could . |
| 9 | The Earl of Shrewsbury once told me that when he walked in the park , Wolsey would suffer no one to come within bowshot of him . |
| 10 | He noted gloomily that when he dined with the King in May the Simpsons were both present , and that when another semi-political dinner party was given in July Mrs Simpson was announced in the Court Circular as being present alone without her husband . |
| 11 | Mr Templeton said that when he arrived at the fire after 10pm , he had spoken to a man who was being treated for injuries in an ambulance . |
| 12 | ‘ That 's a comfortable place to sleep , ’ he thought , and he was so tired after his long , disappointing day at the fair that when he climbed into the cart , he fell asleep immediately . |
| 13 | I wa I was talking to erm Mr the other day and he was saying that when he started at the Co-op it was a , a very , very good place to work . |
| 14 | Would I one day show people this jacket and say that it had been a lovely afternoon in Central Park when he gave it to me and , in closing , would I say that as he disappeared into the trees , I never saw Oscar Wilde again ? |
| 15 | He 'd rehearsed that as he walked from the station , but it was still blurted . |
| 16 | The oddity which the fellow-curates remarked was that as he walked in the procession from the vestry up the aisle he could be heard whistling . |
| 17 | There can have been few more painful moments in Melvyn Bragg 's professional life than when he sat in the audience of a public performance where Barry Humphries , in the guise of Edna Everage , asked if anyone had read any of Bragg 's novels and nobody raised their hand . |
| 18 | Before then he had 14 years in charge of West Ham , the club he joined as a schoolboy player and where he progressed through the ranks . |
| 19 | It was to this much dive-bombed , shelled and strafed position — described as a forefinger poking into Rommel 's midriff — that Leslie came , and where he remained throughout the summer and autumn , constantly in action . |
| 20 | The Tories were in some disarray after the association of some of their leaders with Jacobite intrigue : Oxford was impeached and sent to the Tower in 1715 , and although eventually acquitted in 1717 , his political power was effectively destroyed ; Bolingbroke fled abroad , and although he returned in the 1720s to play a leading role in the propaganda campaign against Walpole , he was not allowed to resume his seat in the House of Lords . |
| 21 | His parents are well-off farmers in Somerset , and although he went to the prestigious Ampleforth school , he spent only a year after taking his A levels at agricultural college before becoming a BMW car salesman . |
| 22 | ‘ He wanted to develop his business on a private basis , and if he came into the glare of publicity as owner of Manchester United he would not be able to do that , ’ one of the negotiators said . |
| 23 | And if he knew of the wanton pictures chasing one another through her head his insulting opinion of her would no doubt be confirmed . |
| 24 | If he asked him to pass the screwdriver he passed the hammer and if he asked for the hammer , he passed the nearest broomhandle , which was usually in another room altogether . |
| 25 | The boy who kicks his football close to windows can be reprimanded more easily if he was one of those to draw up the rule against doing so and if he agreed on the appropriate punishment beforehand . |
| 26 | And if he lived on the other side of the world she would think nothing of flying to meet him , she said . |
| 27 | Well yeah and because he talked to the |
| 28 | I was just in the office typing and er and general office work and while he went on the district you see . |
| 29 | Parr kept his window open , and while he waited on the line , let the sounds from outside wash his consciousness . |
| 30 | Terry had to go back on Sunday night and before he left for the station hugged his mother and looked fearfully into her drawn face . |