Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] he [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Was it that he suddenly realised that his convictions of the past 30 years were false , or did he simply realise that the electorate could not stomach them ? |
| 2 | When he saw the blue uniforms of the New York police , did Buddeke show them some sort of identification or did he just leave ? |
| 3 | Was he committed to the role of protector , or did he just love flying ? |
| 4 | Or did he just want a special name for her to use ? |
| 5 | Did he have any questions about our parish , or did he just listen to what information was being given ? |
| 6 | Or did he just leave a message to let me know he 'd called ? ’ |
| 7 | Did you ask him if he 'd te , told his mum or did he just volunteer it ? |
| 8 | Did they have to ask him to do that or did he just volunteer . |
| 9 | Simon , did Steve stay or did he just leave you there ? |
| 10 | Or did he deliberately |
| 11 | Was he just a common cock-tease , I would wonder as I suggested a new word , broke an overlong line , or did he sometimes really desire a more intimate contact ? |
| 12 | Wilko selling players for less than they 're worth ( or did he actually sell Cantona for 1.8m ? ) |
| 13 | Did you say anything to the effect that Lawrence was being harboured at the flat at or did he merely say he was concerned for the safety of the occupier ? |
| 14 | Or did he really just want a wedding-dress ? |
| 15 | Or did he really make you believe he had developed some sudden , overwhelming passion for you ? ’ |
| 16 | Would Father tell them about me , or had he already circulated the news ? |
| 17 | Or had he simply decided to spin things out a little ? |
| 18 | Guesswork , second sight , or had he actually seen her ? |
| 19 | Lying there at seven o'clock in the morning , suddenly wide awake , as was her manner , it seemed to her quite obvious that she and Charles should get divorced : it had surely long been inevitable , and if Charles really wanted to marry that woman ( or had he perhaps been joking ? — no , perhaps not ) , well then , let him . |
| 20 | Or had he recently passed through a time warp and thought he was back in the 70s ? |
| 21 | She wondered , if Mr Brown were able to get them back , would he want them , or had he now grown too accustomed to his hand the way it was ? |
| 22 | Do not fail ’ — he was having to shout now above the stir ( was everything clear ? or had he only thrown water on a fire ? ) — ‘ do not fail to put in a clause calling on the proprietors to undertake nothing punitive against tenants seen at meetings . |
| 23 | Had Charles Sunderby imagined it , or had he really seen the figure of a man standing frozen at the wheel ? |
| 24 | Was this a habit he had grown into over the years or had he always been like this , turning his wife into an invalid before there was any real need , a man who could only see himself in a solicitous relationship with other people ? |
| 25 | As we have already seen , a boy might not have got beyond typesetting at an equivalent stage either , nor did he automatically get much further anyway ; but the girls were almost all set to handsetting for the firm once they were competent at it . |
| 26 | He showed no surprise at her obviously unsuccessful attempt to run , nor did he even comment on it . |
| 27 | Nor did he yet have much of a following elsewhere which he could import into Wales , although he was probably responsible for the arrival in Wales of the Yorkshireman John Pilkington , who served with the duke on the January commission . |
| 28 | Nor did he yet have much of a following elsewhere which he could import into Wales , although he was probably responsible for the arrival in Wales of the Yorkshireman John Pilkington , who served with the duke on the January commission . |
| 29 | Nor did he particularly care . |
| 30 | Travis had n't looked round , nor did he now . |