Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [adv] [conj] he was " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sir Anthony had concluded his business with the plump lawyer as far as he was able to overcome his distaste for discussing deals or mentioning money , and he was holding back the brambles for her , as it were , letting her into their company , and she butted through , a young dog again , let out for a walk . |
| 2 | Jennie told Katharine not to be afraid to use the outside rein quite strongly when he was over bending . |
| 3 | Philip coached Richard in his schoolwork so efficiently that he was to pass the required certificate with ease despite having missed school for eighteen months . |
| 4 | Having said that , he enjoyed the depth of conviction to be heard at a conventicle and slipped away to a service on the muirs above the village as often as he was able to do so . |
| 5 | As always , the risk element was the icing on the cake as far as he was concerned He breathed in the fine night air and hummed the tune of Colonel Bogey in time with his silent footsteps . |
| 6 | But I had a strong suspicion even then that he was drinking to something other than my health . |
| 7 | Visiting his brethren in Southern Rhodesia he attacked apartheid in a sermon in Salisbury Cathedral so directly that he was deported and declared an ‘ undesirable visitor ’ by the UDI regime . |
| 8 | All agreed to this , and then another knight , Sir Peter de la Mare , who was the Earl of March 's steward , summed up the debate so skilfully that he was chosen by the commons to speak on their behalf before the lords . |
| 9 | For some time now she 'd had the feeling that she was not the flavour of the month as far as he was concerned . |
| 10 | Interestingly , Harry had come into the game unusually late because he was already 24-years-old when chief scout Charlie Slade spotted him playing for . |
| 11 | There might well be a public library very near where he was now walking . |
| 12 | I found , through asking Anderson about his life , especially about his work as a journalist , that I liked the man much more when he was n't trying to impose his intellectual will on the rest of us . |
| 13 | The reformer , Konrad Waldhauser preached here , packing out the church so often that he was sometimes forced to preach in the square . |
| 14 | And yet if he were to look further afield , if he followed the curve of the river as far as he was able to see , he knew that in turn , it would run smoothly into the sea . |
| 15 | He felt the sufferings of the world most keenly when he was confronted with those who were weakest , most vulnerable , least able to defend themselves — refugees : men and women with no home to go to , and , most bereft of all refugees , children . |
| 16 | Tom said that Brian 's beating was the end as far as he was concerned . |
| 17 | It was an opportunity to talk about education and America , an irresistible combination as far as he was concerned , for which he happily interrupted his holiday at Balmoral . |
| 18 | About how I was some kind of prophet as far as he was concerned and he was desperate to have me Confirmed . |
| 19 | ‘ So you 're saying the beetle did keep driving in a straight line — a straight line as far as he was concerned — in his two dimensions , ’ said Uncle Albert . |
| 20 | The specific reference by Jesus to the flood again confirms that it was a true fact of history as far as He was concerned . |
| 21 | Did it really matter from whom a bishop had received the lands and symbols of his office so long as he was the representative of Christ to his flock ? |
| 22 | Clearly the pilot had not wasted time calculating an entry angle , but had bored down through the upper atmosphere as directly as he was able . |
| 23 | Any tenderness between the two of them would be a sham as far as he was concerned , merely serving to emphasise the absence of love , and perhaps like her he felt that a relationship characterised by so much other feeling ought to be loving as well , that the depth of desire he felt for her should have been merely a facet of love instead of the whole . |
| 24 | That 's put you in your place , my girl ; Roman had n't even enquired how she was — their lovemaking had already vanished into limbo as far as he was concerned . |
| 25 | As a matter of fact , one of the men from Scotland Yard , a very nice inspector , told me on the way out that the whole thing was a waste of time as far as he was concerned . |