Example sentences of "[subord] [adv] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had retired to NZ after a long career in education and publishing with Schofield & Sims , Collins Educational and Holmes McDougall , where latterly he had been publishing director . |
| 2 | Where once he felt like giving up , he now has the zeal and determination to push further and harder and keep on going until there is real change in the way mankind behaves . |
| 3 | Where once he had been beautiful now he was hideous ; where once he had been mighty , now he was maimed . |
| 4 | Where once he had been beautiful now he was hideous ; where once he had been mighty , now he was maimed . |
| 5 | Where once he had been fair-spoken now his voice was horrible , forced out by ravaged lungs through a ruined throat . |
| 6 | Outside , the gate had gone from the basement steps , and the slanting roof of the coal hole had fallen in , but when he looked he could see the chafed paint , those marks on the rusted railings , where once he had padlocked his motorcycle . |
| 7 | If , upon hearing of the manifest truth of the work of art or of the textual , fictional character of the world , the reader will let a knowing smile play upon his face where previously he maintained an attitude of high seriousness , then the aim of this book will have been in part achieved . |
| 8 | He retired formally from Harland & Wolff in 1906 , although effectively he had been a sleeping partner for over ten years . |
| 9 | Throughout most of his working life he had lived above the shop at 32 Ludgate Hill , although latterly he occupied a house nearby in the Crescent , New Bridge Street , Blackfriars . |
| 10 | He had a passionate concern for the welfare of football in general , and was always on the lookout for ways to make it more efficient , more attractive and more popular , although naturally he wanted Arsenal to be in the forefront . |
| 11 | Except somehow he 'd made a mistake , picked the wrong woman . |
| 12 | well he has I mean er my my daughter-in-law said he takes he mu he very often drives he 's got a season ticket , an annual season ticket t er to take the train but more often than not he drives because he gets into the into London at about quarter to seven in the morning he goes and you know , parks the car and then goes and gets breakfast and she says he always takes at least one shirt in the car with him to change into . |
| 13 | More often than not he came back to his apartment empty-handed and crestfallen . |
| 14 | Legend has it that Rawlins remembered the lot although yesterday he confessed he might have forgotten one . |
| 15 | He loitered in the wings , although usually he sat in his dressing-room until the curtain rose on the Mermaid 's Lagoon . |
| 16 | Miller had also known this to flower at Hampton Court , although more than once he speaks with some disparagement of inefficient gardeners at this Palace . |
| 17 | A lot of the jokes tended to go straight over his head , but there was always some good stuff about the management and more than once he 'd noticed senior people leaving with red faces before it ended . |
| 18 | And more than once he lost his way because he was remembering the bluest eyes he had ever seen . |
| 19 | I thought erm Mick had spoken more about it , doing all her kitchen and everything than ever he 'd |
| 20 | Biddy brought some tapes of circus-sounding music and Uncle Bean played them in his car , and Spot stood up on his hindlegs and Jazz fell off more heavily than ever he had at a jump . |
| 21 | He had achieved it more easily and more quickly than ever he had expected . |
| 22 | More than ever he resembled his namesake , the giant Alaskan brown bear , a beast that also rollocks cheerfully through northern waters , sending spray flying with enormous paws . |
| 23 | Snoring louder than ever he fumbled again and I saw him insert a small blade into the side of the carriage . |
| 24 | Although once he 'd had a wife of his own . |
| 25 | Punctuality was by way of being an obsession — although once he missed a recording session with Barry Took altogether and all but flayed himself for his lack of professionalism . |
| 26 | He appears to have been pleased that someone was fostering the substance which so interested him , and went away with a sample of Oxford material , which was more potent than any he had himself prepared . |
| 27 | However , he had one final argument , more crushing than any he had yet delivered , and for this he needed no words . |
| 28 | He quickened his flight as he saw ahead in the far distance , perhaps twenty miles on , the blue rising of real hills — ground higher than any he had seen so far . |
| 29 | Wings bigger and blacker and more formidable than any he had yet seen . |
| 30 | Home for Ken was now the Park West block of flats off the Edgware Road , a far more posh environment than any he had been used to up to then . |