Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] he [verb] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So if he 's got that place in a good state , it 's beholden on us |
| 2 | And yet , as carelessly as he had discarded this coat , he had deliberately destroyed her hopes and her dreams . |
| 3 | He thinks he has saved for his holiday — a fallacy that is exposed only when he tries to redeem those bits of paper against an empty spending account . |
| 4 | 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 : |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ You ca n't pester the poor man about money just after he 's had such a dreadful shock ! ’ |
| 7 | Soon after he had learned another police car giving chase had lost the men 's Ford Sierra nearby . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Then he may join me indoors when he 's had enough , as I already have . ’ |
| 11 | He had every intention of getting the hell out of Paris just as soon as he had collected all the money owed to him . |
| 12 | As soon as he had apprehended any kidnappers , the state prosecutor moved in on the hostages and he never saw them again . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Typically though he refuses to make any outrageous predictions , except to offer the view that it will take time to get the club back up and running . |
| 15 | Vice-president MacFarlane will have plenty on his plate now as he tries to pull all the ideas together into the first draft paper on the way to creating the eventual plan for formal consideration in November . |
| 16 | Right , well so he 's done that has he ? |
| 17 | No er well well if he 's got any sense I I always tell the advertiser I said now the adv I said you as the advertiser have got to keep worrying you may have to chivvy them up . |
| 18 | Now you might say perhaps , without really thinking about it , well if he 's got any sense he wo n't have a lot of fe , faith in me because I am , I am a great failure , I 've let him down . |
| 19 | Even if he seeks to deploy fewer warheads per boat than the maximum possible , why should not other countries follow his example and say that that is also their ideal of a minimum deterrent ? |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | However , even if he had added these , the list was bound to be short . |
| 22 | Woosnam names Bernhard Langer as his ‘ dark horse ’ and the German has succeeded in keeping an appropriately low profile even if he has had more practice rounds than anyone . |
| 23 | Yeah , erm , I was going to is that erm it was always the same , two jobs down so it was due to go his boss would have then I 've been there as well cos he 's caused such a stink |
| 24 | ‘ Simply because he managed to avert such a disaster he was there for everyone to have a go at . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Tolonen had not been wrong all those years ago when he had recognised this in Karr . |
| 28 | IT is true that John Fullard of Hartlepool only appears here when he has had some little difficulty with the Post Office . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |