Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [conj] he [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | André asked , once they were outside and he had started the car . |
| 2 | Afterwards Jared Tunstall had said to her mama , ‘ It was a question of a little hustler meeting a big one , and if it were n't that he has hurt Sally-Anne so badly I could almost admire the swine for his gall . |
| 3 | We slept and when we woke you were here and he had gone . ’ |
| 4 | Well when when we were there before he 'd got a lot there ! |
| 5 | Anyone using the double-paddle of these canoes for the first time finds his ( or her ) chest expanded in a strain on shoulder muscles he never knew were there until he started canoeing . |
| 6 | ‘ But it was mostly because he had eaten so much . |
| 7 | This was perhaps because he managed to stop Sandys sweeping the aircraft-carriers onto the junk-heap of history as he had intended to do when he first took office . |
| 8 | He translated for us and it was only after he had argued our case with the Head of Austrian Customs that we started to get somewhere . |
| 9 | It was only after he had gone that they realized they had never asked his name or where he lived . |
| 10 | It was only after he had asked for the bill that he said something that had her on guard again , although there was nothing about his lazy , ‘ Enjoy the party , did you , by the way ? ’ that should have caused her muscles — including her tongue muscles , it seemed — to instantly tighten . |
| 11 | It was only after he had reached for it that he realized he was carrying my groceries around . |
| 12 | He should have realised it before , but it was only when he had seen Juliet that the obvious had appeared in all its blatancy . |
| 13 | It was only because he had noticed a tree with a particular marking carved into the trunk , which he had himself incised , that he found the cave at all . |
| 14 | It was just after he had come home in 1945 , with his raw imagination still straining to assimilate the only excitements of his life and the strange dust of Italy and Egypt still upon his boots . |
| 15 | And it was just after he 'd flicked through one of them that Detective Constable Hodges ( blast his eyes ! ) had come in , walked over to the newspaper stall , and picked up the top copy but one from the Daily Mirror pile . |
| 16 | He had n't meant to , it was just that he had become so tired , so exhausted with the Springalls , the murders , the deceit and the lies . |
| 17 | It was not that he had found the one secret place where the Author could not see him . |
| 18 | Although Glam was finally banished it was not before he had cursed his employer , saying he would ‘ see with a ghost 's sight ’ . |
| 19 | But the flinch was not because he had touched a tender spot on her neck . |
| 20 | He wrote that it was not as he had pictured it as the weather was bitterly cold and wet with some snow . |
| 21 | Alcuin was resident among the Northumbrians in 790 and remained there for some time in the hope of influencing Aethelred , whose accession he welcomed , though evidently to no avail for shortly after he declared that he was working against injustice and that Aethelred 's attitude was not as he had hoped . |
| 22 | It was not until he had accepted and had received travel instructions that he found himself at Bletchley Park as part of the Enigma team reading German cypher traffic . |
| 23 | The authorities denied that his arrest in 1987 was solely because he had met pro-North Korean people in Japan and claimed that he had acted on North Korean orders to collect documents on South Korean opposition groups , and to infiltrate dissent groups in order to create social unrest . |
| 24 | He was back where he 'd started , staring at the wall with nothing to do but wait . |
| 25 | He was back where he had started . |
| 26 | But now the thing was out and he had to make the best of it . |
| 27 | It was simply that he had begun to fear we had arranged this with Flora : as if , in his mind , he could hear her saying , oh yes , what a splendid idea , I shall be bored with young Adam by Fez … |
| 28 | It was here that he had become a doorman before going on to live in England . |
| 29 | Mr Gillis had stuck a plastic hook near the top of this door on the inside and it was here that he chose to hang his white trilby . |
| 30 | Sam spent the next morning poking his broom everywhere it was wanted and a few places it was n't until he had swept up several titbits of very interesting information . |