Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [adv] [adv] [subord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They ought to suggest also that he thought more deeply than his critics have ever recognised about just those issues he is commonly alleged to ignore : the processes of temptation , the complex nature of good and evil , the relationship between reality and our fallible perception of it . |
| 2 | But much of his work was done in minor cricket , and , for instance , in the seasons 1848–51 it has been calculated that he took no less than 1,307 wickets , including 455 in forty-one matches in 1851 . |
| 3 | To the extent that he went further so as to suggest that in no circumstances could the speeches be looked at other than for the purposes of seeing what was said on a particular date , his remarks have to be understood in the context of the issues which arose in that case . |
| 4 | Arthur flew to London and stayed in the police morgue a long time with the body that he knew as closely as his own , thinking of Fred 's splendid good nature , his tough-mindedness , and his humour about the absurd and even the terrible . |
| 5 | She could n't even feel resentful that he slept so peacefully after she had suffered a sleepless night of angst . |
| 6 | Nesri qualifies this with " in the beginning of [ Mehmed II " s ] sultanate " but joins Molla Yegan with Molla Husrev ( d. 885/1480–1 ) , Molla Zeyrek ( d. 879/1474–5 ? ) and Hocazade ( d. 893/1488 ) in the sentence so that the possible inference that he died earlier rather than later in Mehmed II's reign is rendered doubtful at best . |
| 7 | I would wager that he goes so far as to say that I broke down in his room , stuttering out the words of my so-called confession between chokes and tears , unable to speak properly . |
| 8 | I believe that he understands more clearly than before the minimum nature of our deterrent — and that we intend to keep it . |
| 9 | With these human problems Wordsworth was deeply concerned , though it must be admitted that a superficial reading of his poetry gives the impression that he ran as hard as he could to get away from them . |
| 10 | He found that he did just better than his predecessor and was pleased . |
| 11 | He saw himself as a buffoon with nasty reserves of observation , a man with goonish spectacles clamped round his ears and perfidy in his guts , and he felt so appalled by his mistrust of an old friend who must surely be taken for an ally that he tried as fast as possible to invent some headway on the project about Berlin . |
| 12 | ‘ I told Jim to believe that he competes significantly better than most players . |
| 13 | Protagoras found gender assignation in Greek inconsistent and illogical — for example , there were cases when two words referring to the same thing had different genders — and he went so far as to advocate reform ( he was ridiculed for this by Aristophanes , and the attempt was unsuccessful ) . |
| 14 | The dog landed awkwardly on its hindlegs , losing its balance , and he looked away sharply as it tumbled under the wheels . |
| 15 | Blondel in his study Political Parties : A Genuine Case for Discontent ? claims that " in the great majority of cases programmes are unclear , often limited in scope , and not closely connected to the goals which the party proclaims " and he goes so far as to assert that " on balance parties do not really have programmes " . |
| 16 | It was his profession that had brought him that shaft of insight , and he felt mildly safer because of it . |
| 17 | ‘ At 15 , he looked more like 12 ; a skinny awkward kid of 93 pounds in tattered black high-top sneakers , he looked slow and he ran even slower than he looked . ’ |
| 18 | The Bible for him , however , contained many truths , and he understood far better than many theologians that you must never tamper with the mythology of scripture . |
| 19 | Once he had settled into the right-back position he was impossible to move from the Palace first team ( unless illness or injury intervened , and the career chart shows that there was only one season when that happened to any serious degree ) , and he appeared there regularly until the 1st World War brought an end to competitive football and threw everyone 's affairs into confusion . |
| 20 | And er and because we call him he spoke there and he spoke very well because and erm that 's it . |
| 21 | He 's always fore he 's forever contrasting er these these er centres in Highfields with his village halls and er small village halls and that and that 's very , the very truth , I 'd like to refer him and he knows as well as I do that what he should really be comparing with are the youth and community provision across the county which is an enormous amount in excess of the amount we put into old people 's homes and as Mr so rightly said , they 're problems were gon na have to grapple with in the future and so you then look at what has been suggested , what has been proposed and the point that Professor made about the Labour party having to make it work , is because it is they and everybody knows it 's they have been five membering this thing all the way through . |
| 22 | Cos Dave 's been out the country like ehm , well it 's just under ten years , and if he stays out longer than ten years he loose , he loose his citizenship . |
| 23 | He said you know , cos he lived as cheaply as he could while he was out there and |
| 24 | I 've got two boxes at home , but I I mean its not brilliant , but they do the job for me could be worth cos he driving out there as well , would n't mind start get the old ferry ticket 's tomorrow and piss off over there , straight through France , |
| 25 | When occasions have occurred , as they do in all organizations , where it is necessary to take a ‘ big ’ risk on a young man whose experience and background we think inadequate for the task , nine times out of ten not only does he rise to the occasion but he does even better than we would expect . |
| 26 | Anselm himself never quoted this analogy , but he went so far as to warn the pope that if he gave an adverse judgement in the dispute between Canterbury and York ‘ I would on no account remain in England ; for I neither ought to , nor can allow the primacy of our church to be destroyed while I am alive . ’ |
| 27 | Gregory should have added a second but he headed tamely over after Gary Thompson had stormed down the right . |
| 28 | The Shy One hardly ever speaks , partly due to nerves but more usually because he thinks more slowly than his colleagues , and by the time he has thought out a contribution someone else has already said it . |
| 29 | Mark Harries burned down his fancy dress hire shop in a bid to swindle £340,000 after he ran up more than £160,000 debts . |
| 30 | Whether he came in just because of Bev or whether he 'd started on |