Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [adv] [vb infin] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tracey said that she 's just gon na be one of these the judge either likes you or he do n't like you . |
| 2 | and he seemed to think the other one wanted to buy something but he , whe whether he could n't read the writing or he did n't understand it |
| 3 | Gregory liked Guntram because of his benefactions to the Church and his regard for churchmen , although he does not hide his weaknesses . |
| 4 | The falsificationist now appears to be reaching a tentative solution to his problem , although he does not consider himself to have proved by experiment how bats avoid collisions while flying . |
| 5 | In his more pessimistic moments some rogue part of his mind knew this darkness to be inevitable , although he did not expect it to come in his time , maybe not even in his son 's . |
| 6 | Livingstone said he had been at home at the time of the trouble while Hardy said he watched the disturbance , although he did not throw anything . |
| 7 | He has been to my constituency recently , although he did not inform me of the fact . |
| 8 | My dear friend — if I may so describe him — the previous Foreign Secretary , who resigned from the right hon. Lady 's Government over Europe , was equally thrilled , although he did not express himself — he never does — in quite such colourful language . |
| 9 | The farrier 's son would recognise spavin , splint and stringhalt in the living horse although he did not know their nature . |
| 10 | Although he did not know it at the time , Hess 's work was to initiate a revolution in geological and geophysical thinking , and ultimately it became the foundation of a major new theory about how continents and oceans are related , and what part volcanoes play in the evolution of the Earth . |
| 11 | This was to be a momentous decision although he did not know it at the time . |
| 12 | Although he did not know it , Roxie Farmer and her sister-in-law were having the bonfire they had promised themselves . |
| 13 | It was while touring the United States with Fred Karno [ q.v. ] in 1912 that he tried his luck on American vaudeville , principally in a duo with his common-law wife , Mae Dahlberg , who suggested his stage name , Laurel , although he did not adopt it legally until 1934 . |
| 14 | He told him about their ruined holiday and where they had spent the previous night , although he did not reveal his unusual experience . |
| 15 | In verse and prose he was hell-bent on facing himself when things were out of joint ; the scalpel-probe is counterbalanced by the unlearned , incurious manner in which he found deepest ease and joy out of doors — a way of healing he had discovered early in life , although he did not consider himself a naturalist . |
| 16 | That was in fact the private view of Harold Nicolson , although he did not allow it to be expressed in his official biography of George V. In an unpublished section of his diaries , he writes of his interview with Queen Mary on 21 March 1949 , ‘ I talked to her about the 1931 crisis and said that I was convinced the King had been a determinant influence on that occasion , ‘ Yes certainly ; he certainly was , ' |
| 17 | ‘ We should be safe enough now , ’ Jotan said , although he did not raise his voice . |
| 18 | Although he did not contradict what he said last week , except to apologise for his reference to Cyprus , the tenor of the remarks was clearly designed to redress the balance . |
| 19 | Dell Computer Corp is blaming problems with its notebook computers for a shock halving of first quarter profits ( figures , page five ) , and warns that the second quarter will be no better , and that its target of $3.30 a share for the year is now out of reach : the shares plunged $10 to $22.125 before the market opened yesterday : ‘ Basically , the notebooks are going to have a negative effect on earnings per share in the next two quarters , ’ chairman Michael Dell told Reuter — adding that Dell is taking steps to improve its notebook business by setting up joint development opportunities with new partners and that a partnership with an ‘ electronics and communications provider ’ was already in place , although he did not name it . |
| 20 | But Nutty knew that Biddy 's groundwork with them night after night round the railway yard had paid off : Hoomey could ride , although he did n't realise it . |
| 21 | After all , he must be pushing forty at the very least to be a consultant in A and E , although he did n't look it by any stretch of the imagination . |
| 22 | Mercer Lorrimore was over in England at that time , and stayed and went racing at Newmarket in July , but the Jockey Club found him grimmer than his usual self and understood it was something to do with his son , although he did n't say what . |
| 23 | Although he did n't know them , he could have sworn they had been there for the past hour . |
| 24 | And Preston very tense behind the sofa , because when his nan called someone madam she meant business , and although he did n't know what adultery meant exactly he knew it was something smutty and another of the things the commandments came down pretty hard on . |
| 25 | And Mr Donson er has said that he does n't think it , it in fact exceeds that . |
| 26 | But I know that he does n't love me , and despite that , he asks me to marry him ! ’ |
| 27 | ‘ He 's angry and irritable and he 's made it clear from the very beginning that he does n't expect me to come up to scratch . ’ |
| 28 | What Gowie means probably is that he does n't expect anybody to like him and , because of that , he tends not to behave in a likable way . |
| 29 | He says he does n't take it to extremes these days , that he does n't date them . |
| 30 | He would not fear losing the captaincy but , while he has it , he will continue to make quite sure that he does n't fail it . |