Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [adv] [conj] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was indeed kind , exceptionally so ; but he never indulged in insincerity for the sake of pleasing , and he could be downright enough when he deemed it necessary . |
| 2 | ‘ He 'll be all right if he does n't start listening to the wrong people . ’ |
| 3 | Alf is periodically nodding at his son-in-law and suggesting that he would be better off if he read the book Alf has in his hands . |
| 4 | Each prisoner will then see that — regardless of what the other does — he will be better off if he confesses . |
| 5 | The Beggar 's view is , reasonably , that Hoccleve 's income should be enough even though he had a wife , and has by marrying her , cut off the possibility of a career in the Church . |
| 6 | he wo n't be home yet unless he catches his entire entitlement all in one go |
| 7 | Erm sometimes if he 's been out very very late and I 'm still up and he 's come home after a heavy night drinking . |
| 8 | I travel abroad with him , I help him to organise his business life , and I 'm always there if he needs me . |
| 9 | And that er they would be worse off because he said even staff nurses are getting more than twenty thousand pounds a year . |
| 10 | Why should an applicant , who must in any event be prepared to satisfy the primary purpose test , be worse off because he contemplates the possibility of a relatively short stay in the UK than one who had the fixed intention of permanent UK residence ? |
| 11 | He he wo n't be there long if he does come . |
| 12 | From there , the crossing and the distance he had covered on that path , to the place where he was found , would take him no more than half an hour — less , if he was a brisk walker , and it was raining , he 'd be no longer than he need out in it . |
| 13 | William was nervous because he 'd been here before and he knew what was going to happen next , but his father kept smiling at him cheerfully , a strong , reassuring presence by his side . |
| 14 | you could n't do it , but he had every opportunity the other , the twin did to get through you know and he passed his City and Guilds , but Peter 's got on alright , the other son who 's got the factory , he 's , he 's busy got an electrical panels and all that he does , you know , he 's quite good and my other son he works , he used to work at Burnt Mill , and he now has moved to erm er Stansted , he works at Stansted he works in the big food depot , that used to be years ago and he works there , he 's been there ever since he left school , since except two , two years he had in the army you know for the conscription , but he 's been there erm ever since he was fourteen and he 's now about oh , forty something now he is , I 'm not quite sure of their ages , I get muddled up I 've got , eight , eight sons altogether , so , I 've got quite a family dear . |
| 15 | after being down there and he had one and he was talking to his mates when and he was going do think this 'll do me any good ? |
| 16 | But no ball of fire climbed into the sky ahead of him and the familiar landmarks were still there as he passed the City of London Museum and slipped past St. Botolph-without-Aldersgate into Little Britain . |
| 17 | He fell asleep , but the pains in his head were still there when he awoke in the morning . |
| 18 | Lorton had known who they were as soon as he 'd seen them ; he had been expecting the police , though not quite as soon as this , and in any case salesmen rarely travelled in pairs . |
| 19 | He gloried in the cunningness of it , the feeling of having outwitted the others , of knowing what they did not ; that he was out and away and they were back there where he 'd left them , ignorantly worrying where he was , searching ; wondering . |
| 20 | Luckily the others still were n't back so he made me write a note saying we 'd been called to London on some family matter and we took the next train from Cheltenham station . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Well , you see , it was partly my fault , because I just kept saying you were n't in and he got very abusive because he did n't believe me . |
| 22 | With all that said of course the transition period is going to be very dangerous for the kind of reasons we 've been talking about already and I think is right too when he says that er , the so called nationalist in the non Russian Republics , if you 're a Democrat in a empire , then you are inevitably a nationalist as well because you want your nation to have its natural human rights . |
| 23 | It 's all right but he prefers Cabanaconda . |
| 24 | Tim Russon is down there and he sends this report from the banks of the Thames . |
| 25 | somehow in the drama , even though it 's so long since he passed away . |
| 26 | He says it 's so long since he saw you and the girls that he wo n't know you . |
| 27 | It is much more that he seems to be playing games . |
| 28 | It is not just that he persists in the language of ‘ lord ’ and ‘ servant , when Esau has called him ‘ brother ’ , though that is significant enough . |
| 29 | IF Gorbachev the Great is looking more and more like Mixed-up Mikhail , it is not just because he has an impossible job . |
| 30 | It is not enough that he believes them to have been stolen : Haughton v Smith [ 1975 ] AC 476 ( HL ) . |