Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] he [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was bearing the cold and damp better than he had in the previous year , but these winter months were a time when proper life had to give way to the struggle merely to exist . |
| 2 | The accused , therefore , is guilty of blackmail against a timorous person , when a reasonable person would not have been frightened , only if he knew of the timidity . |
| 3 | They had offered him the position of editor in chief with , apparently , more direct control over the content of the paper , but only if he came off the Board . |
| 4 | By protecting the producers and merchants and by imposing tolls and customs dues he could profit from it doubly so if he ruled over the English and Norman ports into which the wine was imported . |
| 5 | He could see the Bible as drama not only because he believed in the Devil but also because he read the Bible as literature . |
| 6 | Zacchaeus was a tax-collector and was very unpopular with the Jews , not only because he worked for the Romans but also because he was very rich through cheating people , as he himself admitted ( Luke 19:8 ) . |
| 7 | Maxim wondered if he dressed that way only because he worked for The Firm , and decided probably not . |
| 8 | It was not long before he fainted from the drugs . |
| 9 | Stitch 's nose had twitched eagerly as he took in the size of the Imperial . |
| 10 | At times he would brood gloomily as he thought of the future course of the Reformation . |
| 11 | He drew off some fluid and relieved the pressure , then went back to the office , where he shook his head gloomily as he pored over the report that had come back with her from Seapark . |
| 12 | ‘ No … ’ she whispered tremulously as he marched across the sand towards the dark lawns leading up to the cottage . |
| 13 | And Madra there , also , he suddenly remembered , and groaned aloud as he thought of the complications ahead . |
| 14 | He knew he was safe so long as he remained in the kitchen . |
| 15 | He believed that so long as he remained in the Government the Press attacks would continue and that his supposedly malevolent influence would be blamed for every failure . |
| 16 | The tsar had been enthusiastic about change so long as he remained in the orbit of Elena Pavlovna , but in St Petersburg his convictions or his courage deserted him . |
| 17 | Mains now realises tat there is a need for a certain amount of public relations work in his job , especially as he came to the coaching position under strained circumstances . |
| 18 | He took the Canal Turn as fluently as he had on the first circuit , then swept towards Valentine 's Brook . |
| 19 | He was playing with it impatiently as he listened to the old man . |
| 20 | Only when he went into the Victoria Nursing Home did she make the trip to Brighton — just a fortnight before he died . |
| 21 | Only when he came through the trees and round the small hill that sheltered the house , only then did he see the soldiers who had camped in the house and the grounds . |
| 22 | She did nothing much about it — Eismark was still just somebody in shipping , not a politician — and it was only when he came onto the Secretariat that she asked for money to do some more work about it . ’ |
| 23 | Harrison knew many of the wrestlers and the rest of the morning passed pleasantly enough as he moved around the quacks and the pedlars , tinkers and gypsies and show people who were an enjoyable contrast to the farmers ' wives selling their freshly imprinted butter , with their buckets of eggs , the vegetables and poultry , rabbits , game pies , potted char , rum butter . |
| 24 | You 'll be doing him a favour , she 'd thought , and so as he wandered past the kitchen on a mid-afternoon stroll she crept up behind him and grabbed him by the neck . |
| 25 | Oh , Athelstan knew about the problem of evil but sometimes he wondered , especially when he stared into the darkness , was there really anyone listening to him ? |
| 26 | She had blinds on the window and said she would n't be long when he knocked at the locked door . |
| 27 | ‘ just because he fought in the International Brigade . |
| 28 | One day , soon after he arrived in the dale he had reason to go to another farm and overheard a conversation between two old ladies.p They were lamenting that it was a sad day because outsiders were coming into the dale and taking over farms and was n't it a shame they could n't be let to locals . ’ |
| 29 | Mr Good 's interest in youth work led to the formation of a Youth Fellowship shortly after he came to the church . |
| 30 | Effortless transfer : Sir Patrick , who joined the BP board shortly after he retired from the foreign service in 1991 , seems to have transferred effortlessly from Whitehall to business life . |