Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] he [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And yet , as carelessly as he had discarded this coat , he had deliberately destroyed her hopes and her dreams . |
| 2 | Althusser 's theory of history has been more widely attacked and denigrated than any other aspect of his work , largely because he dared to argue that , far from providing the unassailable foundation of Marxism , history was a problematic concept even in Marx 's own texts : |
| 3 | At least out here they had to play according to some sort of standard of fairness , even if it was a standard they could change as they went along according to how it suited them ( like doubling the bus fares just after he 'd found that job way out in Brentford ) , but in prison , even more so than in a mental hospital , there were no real limits to what they could do to him . |
| 4 | Soon after he had learned another police car giving chase had lost the men 's Ford Sierra nearby . |
| 5 | The strike had ended soon after he had commenced this venture so he was again at work during the day , as a machinist , but after getting home at 6 p.m. and hastily eating a meal , he went into his ( or should I say , the communal ) bedroom , and worked long into the night . |
| 6 | Gregory seems to have confused the chronology of events in the 520s and 530s , just as he had muddied that of the two previous decades . |
| 7 | He had every intention of getting the hell out of Paris just as soon as he had collected all the money owed to him . |
| 8 | As soon as he had apprehended any kidnappers , the state prosecutor moved in on the hostages and he never saw them again . |
| 9 | Jonathon knew he had less than two miles to go and that his faithful horse would trudge him home as he had done many times before . |
| 10 | Even if he 'd shown any signs at all of wanting to have her around — which he had n't — she 'd be nothing more than a burden . |
| 11 | However , even if he had added these , the list was bound to be short . |
| 12 | ‘ Simply because he managed to avert such a disaster he was there for everyone to have a go at . |
| 13 | Even when he tried to put this matter right , by putting his head forward and up , he was faced with an even greater difficulty because he saw again from the mirror that he was increasing the tension and pulling his head back even further . |
| 14 | He remembered the feel of her tears on his own face , and covered his eyes in the Caffè Gambrinus ; in shame for all those years ago when he had provoked such outrage in her , but in sweetness too , for jealousy was a sign of love , every woman knew that . |
| 15 | Tolonen had not been wrong all those years ago when he had recognised this in Karr . |
| 16 | At half-term , Ali had offered ten pounds to any of ‘ the proud Muslim people of South-West London ’ who would be prepared to finish off Robert Wilson , but , even though he had raised this sum to twelve pounds fifty , there were , so far at any rate , no takers . |
| 17 | He was smilingly recognized at the reception desk , but his credentials were still carefully scrutinized and he was required to await the escorting messenger , even though he had attended enough meetings in the building to be reasonably familiar with these particular corridors of power . |
| 18 | Titch left him a key , you see , while he was away , so he could keep an eye on the place , or maybe if he wanted to do some painting , the way your nan carried on about him doing it at home — anyway , he went round there that night . ’ |
| 19 | Then he 'd have a , then when he 'd done that he 'd have a erm , oh I think they used to call it a a wax ball , er to rub round the end of the sole and have a an iron that he would rub this wax into the seam between your your your shoe itself and the leather to seal that off and make it waterproof . |