Example sentences of "soon [conj] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says the election is coming up soon and he thinks it 's politically motivated . |
| 2 | She was somewhat startled to find a waiter knocking on her door very soon and he came in bearing a tray of tea and a pain-killer , looking at her sadly and murmuring his regrets . |
| 3 | Chairman Ed Abbott said the appeal would begin in earnest soon and he confirmed that Mr Rhys-Jones had pledged his support . |
| 4 | Normski moved in 18 months ago , soon after he began a relationship with Janet Street-Porter , renowned as the most powerful woman in television . |
| 5 | Soon after he returned Sigarup took the rams and he-goats back to the mountain pastures . |
| 6 | He stayed away two years and soon after he returned found that , as an eighteen-year-old , he faced National Service . |
| 7 | Soon after he met his second wife , Hannah Anderson , a publican 's daughter from Gateshead , Gallacher was arrested for brawling with her brother under Newcastle 's High Level Bridge . |
| 8 | Soon after he met Marigold he had taken her to the opera to see Die Walküre and afterwards had said without forethought : |
| 9 | Soon after he got there the atom bomb all but ended the issue and certainly ended all active prospects for the latest intake of air crew . |
| 10 | Bratby was intrigued by Minton and soon after he got to know him painted a huge picture on paper , entitled ‘ Homage to John Minton ’ . |
| 11 | She went to live back in Britain soon after he died , anyway . ’ |
| 12 | Undoubtedly , in March 1914 , nine days after his thirty-seventh birthday , at one of the lowest ebbs in his fortune ( but soon after he had received a grant from the Royal Literary Fund ) , Thomas speculated in fictional form upon another path his life might have taken if he had left grammar school at sixteen and followed his father 's plan of a career in the Civil Service . |
| 13 | He took the decision soon after he had been elected Speaker in 1983 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | One day , soon after he had retired from his legal practice , Hilbert told Lewis he had made a will that was ‘ very much to your advantage ’ . |
| 16 | A good example of how upset people could be in those days by the questioning of their religious beliefs occurred in my interview with Basil Hume soon after he had received his cardinal 's hat . |
| 17 | Soon after he had taken me under his ample wing he had remarked , ‘ Think of me as the Brahmin of the Banal ! |
| 18 | But soon after he had a change of heart and left her . |
| 19 | As he and Hasan and Maisie started out down Wimbledon Park Road , he remembered something the headmaster had said to him , quite soon after he had started teaching the reception class . |
| 20 | The drug was withdrawn throughout the world soon after he had made his claim . |
| 21 | Soon after he had learned another police car giving chase had lost the men 's Ford Sierra nearby . |
| 22 | Rudd 's temporary job evolved into a full-time role as a ‘ sort of chief mechanic running the racing shop at Folkingham ’ , and soon after he married Pam , a girl from Bourne . |
| 23 | Mr Keating first raised the idea of severing ties with the Crown soon after he became Prime Minister in late 1991 . |
| 24 | William Springett died soon after he wrote this letter in 1772 , leaving an only daughter , Anne . |
| 25 | but soon after he heard a voice , |
| 26 | ‘ Probably soon after he went missing . |
| 27 | His practical education was evidently gained working in his father 's business and soon after he came of age he was taken into partnership , the firm then moving to the larger settlement of Corbridge . |
| 28 | Soon after he came to power he personally led an expedition against the Shanqalla negroes on the Sudan border , and my father affirmed that the slaughter there must have satisfied for a time even his craving for blood . |
| 29 | which had been occupied by soldiers , this was our first hut , well by then I was working for the Corporation and of course by virtue of my job with the chief architect I got this house and we were offered this house about two years later for two thousand pounds and we said oh we would n't be staying here for more than ten years in any case and we would n't be bothered to buy it , but then my husband started in business you see soon after he came back and we eventually got the shop and , of course it 's very convenient because we 're only a stone 's throw from the shop you see , so we stayed here |
| 30 | Each contributed in different ways to the Watkinson counter-reformation that began soon after he took over as Minister of Defence in October 1959 . |