Example sentences of "however [adv] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She wondered if he ever dropped it ; she could sense that , however fluently he talked , however intently he listened — and he listened very intently — his mind was at the same time pursuing some other parallel track . |
| 2 | However much he struggled — which he did — he was lashed into line by Philip and finally took his name . |
| 3 | But however much he desired peace and , with peace , an opportunity to make good war 's heavy drain on his financial resources , there were limits to Henry 's clemency . |
| 4 | Sometimes Brian tried to comfort himself with the fact that , however much he had wanted a child , he had not forced motherhood on Celia , that Harry 's conception had not exactly been his fault ; but then that thought had been instantly negated by the realisation that his own pleasure at her pregnancy , their move to the country and his insistence that all would be well , amounted to a foolish bigoted optimism for which he blamed himself entirely . |
| 5 | Unlike the new Cistercian seekers for a simpler form of monastic life , Anselm — however much he shared a personal preference for simplicity — disapproved of a discontented search for something better than the present community provided . |
| 6 | However much he sounds like an aristocratic flasher , the Blue Baron is in fact a fictitious flying ace from the Great War and the star of Zeppelin 's latest budget blaster . |
| 7 | Once the linguist ‘ brings over ’ his formal abstract concepts into the cultural domain then , however much he protests that no ranking is intended , the attribution of such qualities as ‘ objectivity ’ to some languages and not others can not but have implications for ranking and for power . |
| 8 | However much he refuses to shy away from the hopeless , endless horror of what he sees , he can not give up that quest for the perfect paradise . |
| 9 | However much he bucked against it , in the end , if he wanted to survive in this world , let alone succeed , he had to do everything the schoolteacher instructed him to do . |
| 10 | He had memories of Vienna before the 1939 war , and liked people who took care over such things as coffee — proper , expensive coffee — as he tried to himself , however much he decided to ignore most of the facts of being poor . |
| 11 | However much he wanted the answer to his unasked question , he was going to have to wait for it . |
| 12 | But however much he hated the thought of allowing Sara to commit herself to a man she had never met , he knew her too well and loved her too much to try to keep her at home against her will . |
| 13 | YAKOV TOLSTIKOV is among the favourites to win one of the big-money prizes in the ADT London Marathon on Sunday , but however much he makes he will struggle to spend it when he returns home to Siberia . |
| 14 | Leavis , who notoriously had no hesitation about attacking canonical figures , was closer to this tradition , however much he detested the belletrist spirit , than he was to later developments in academic criticism . |
| 15 | Above all , however deeply he commits himself to a long-term end , it must never be allowed to outweigh ‘ Be aware ’ . |
| 16 | However carefully he spoke , he still released a little dribble from the stiff site of his mouth and wiped it away with a routine gesture of his left hand . |
| 17 | However thoroughly he had pulled up his African roots , however , he never really felt entirely accepted in England . |
| 18 | Antonio believes that by making Shylock in Act Four Scene one convert to Christianity he is saving his soul , however unwittingly he does not realise he is killing Shylock . |
| 19 | Maybe this is because Wodehouse 's country house settings were always a never-never land which defy visual translation , whereas his view of America , however far he sent up his adopted country , had closer links with reality . |
| 20 | However well he does , however badly he is beaten , he contrives to incorporate the result into his bil-dungsroman . |
| 21 | But however well he knew the owner of the voice , Folly was relieved to see that Luke was n't rushing to answer her summons . |
| 22 | However strongly he objected to military governors-general , he also believed strongly in the maintenance of law and order . |
| 23 | However strongly he swam , the sea pulled him further away from the coast , and he was already beginning to feel tired and breathless . |
| 24 | She wondered if he ever dropped it ; she could sense that , however fluently he talked , however intently he listened — and he listened very intently — his mind was at the same time pursuing some other parallel track . |
| 25 | He could n't flesh her out , however hard he studied the picture . |
| 26 | He just ca n't hit the target however hard he tries . |
| 27 | Hence the perception that , however hard he tries — and it was brave of him to go to the wall at all — Mr Clinton will always carry this particular cross , and that his relations with the armed services will always be shaped by it . |
| 28 | However hard he strove , his destiny was fixed at birth by his parents ' position , and such limited social mobility as might be achieved was rationalized ( and thus concealed ) in the language of kinship . |
| 29 | Evidently he thought that a person can quite properly use the word ‘ here ’ without knowing , either by acquaintance or description , some thing which is what the word means , but that the word ‘ I ’ is different , and therefore that someone who can not , however hard he introspects , discover some thing which is what the word means , should not use it . |
| 30 | However hard he tried , he somehow always failed to be the son she wanted ; the son she truly deserved . |