Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] [adv] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Loki was caught and punished by ODIN several times , once being imprisoned beneath the earth 's surface where he shook so violently that the world trembled . |
| 2 | Yet he had a way of manipulating our conversations on to ground of his choosing where he spoke so admirably that only afterwards did one realize how other issues , other questions , had been delicately side-stepped . |
| 3 | First , the defendant might argue that he believed in the victim 's consent since she permitted penetration although he knew full well that she had no understanding of the act . |
| 4 | In the event it was too windy to fly on the Sunday so he came back early and they spent the day in his garden preparing an area of lawn for seeding . |
| 5 | She extracted him determinedly and set him down on his feet , whereupon he wobbled perilously backwards and forwards , then set off at a tremendous pace across the courtyard , with his mother following , calling apologies back to Caroline as she disappeared from view . |
| 6 | Cos Dave 's been out the country like ehm , well it 's just under ten years , and if he stays out longer than ten years he loose , he loose his citizenship . |
| 7 | ‘ Whatever the truth of it , ’ said the earl with assurance , ‘ you have him safe in hold , you need only wait , and if he has indeed more and worse to tell , you may get it from the lad himself . |
| 8 | He was convinced that if he tried hard enough and often enough I would go to bed with him . |
| 9 | It is not surprising that new fossil species are discovered daily , and indeed the amateur collector has a good chance of finding a new species of fossil , if he looks hard enough and learns to recognize what he has found . |
| 10 | He said you know , cos he lived as cheaply as he could while he was out there and |
| 11 | I 've got two boxes at home , but I I mean its not brilliant , but they do the job for me could be worth cos he driving out there as well , would n't mind start get the old ferry ticket 's tomorrow and piss off over there , straight through France , |
| 12 | Ought we to think less of Johnson for agreeing because he knew full well that he could influence Boswell ? |
| 13 | Harry exclaimed , flushing deeply , because he knew very well that it was n't . |
| 14 | The Shy One hardly ever speaks , partly due to nerves but more usually because he thinks more slowly than his colleagues , and by the time he has thought out a contribution someone else has already said it . |
| 15 | Apparently , though , her innocent looks convinced him , because he leaned back again and gave a weary sigh . |
| 16 | Sandison found it very difficult to understand him because he spoke very quickly and occasionally slipped into Neapolitan dialect . |
| 17 | I should imagine she is gazing at the floor , pursuing some thought which has escaped sideways from the main line of march , while he gazes almost anywhere but at her . |
| 18 | Laura glanced through her eyelashes at the thick dark hair curling over the edge of his collar , the relaxed set of his broad-shouldered figure as he continued to idly watch the passing scenery , while he talked so calmly and dismissively about a marriage which , it was quite clear , had never been of any major importance in his life . |
| 19 | She put on the kettle , put coffee into a mug , and stood by the stove , so as to be standing , not sitting , while he moved so electrically and finely about . |
| 20 | ‘ Neil has been tremendous since he came back here and anyone at Saturday 's game will have seen many incidents where Neil in fact stopped trouble developing . |
| 21 | Mark Harries burned down his fancy dress hire shop in a bid to swindle £340,000 after he ran up more than £160,000 debts . |
| 22 | The only term he uses to characterize the content of these tales in advance is " " harlotrye " " , and this appears after he has not once but twice emphasized the purported social origin of these tales . |
| 23 | Whether he came in just because of Bev or whether he 'd started on |
| 24 | Went quiet about half past ten so whether he buggered off out or what I do n't know . |
| 25 | Whether he goes back again or not depends on his fight to regain his Liverpool spot . |
| 26 | The manager had been trying to set himself up in the Business when he knew full well that Clive had the franchise . |
| 27 | Fabia counteracted any feeling of wretchedness at that last guilty thought by deciding that it really was n't good enough that Vendelin Gajdusek had gone away when he knew full well that someone was travelling especially from England to see him . |
| 28 | His attitude to South Africa was epitomized when he went not there but to neighbouring Rhodesia in 1953 . |
| 29 | ‘ Yes , ’ she whispered , then smiled when he went very still and drew back to stare at her . |
| 30 | Lech Walesa was probably more popular when he was a freedom-fighter in Poland than when he came here recently and complained about the low level of enthusiasm for investing in his country.Today the only country to spend more than 1 per cent of its output on aid is Norway , with Holland and Denmark close behind . |