Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] he [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | We took his four- poster bed down that he wanted taking down that he cherished for some peculiar reason , and then we moved all the other bits of furniture , and as we w were sort of getting most of the furniture out of the first bedroom he said Do n't forget the loft will you ? |
| 32 | He was staring at the lake , regretful perhaps that he 'd said too much not to say more . |
| 33 | George got financial support from Parliament for troops to defend his Electorate and they did well enough to maintain his position , but he could not establish in office the ministers he really wanted , who would have been committed to full-scale involvement in Germany , so that he had to put up with a government which was not completely devoted to fighting on the continent of Europe . |
| 34 | The Revolution of 1688 lost D'Urfey the courtly connections he had developed , so that he had to turn to other means of support . |
| 35 | And then , horizontally down the spine , so that he had to turn it round to read it in the light of a street lamp . |
| 36 | A gentle breeze broke the absolute silence , moving the curtain so that he had to steady it with his hand . |
| 37 | His family gave him control of his own finances again , so that he had to resume making budgetary decisions in his everyday life , such as choosing between a meal at Claridges or a physiotherapy session . |
| 38 | Lewis was markedly less exclusive and less austere ; but he had once borrowed a copy of Eliot 's verse in 1926 from John Betjeman , then an unsatisfactory Oxford pupil , and it had enraged him — so much so that he had organised a cabal to write spoof verse in the Eliot manner to introduce into his quarterly Criterion . |
| 39 | This must have been a joke , as he laughed , or perhaps any mention of marriage was a joke to Gordon , who walked past Nenna and settled himself between them in a small chair , actually a nursing chair , surviving from some earlier larger family home and much too low for him , so that he had to try crossing his legs in several positions . |
| 40 | He wondered whether she had come alive again so that he had had to kill her once more . |
| 41 | She stirred against him , and he mistook it for something like the small movements of a child asleep , and smiled down at her through the slow current of perfume rising from her black , turmoiled hair ; but she was awake and brought her head up , drawing away from him a little , looking at him , so that he had to hide his smile quickly , because it was n't something he had meant her to see . |
| 42 | It seems that during the 18th century in the beautiful city of Cambridge , the leading livery stable was owned and operated by one Charles Hobson who had made a small fortune in renting cabs and carriages to the gentry , so much so that he had acquired that lovely house and property known as Anglesey Abbey for his country residence . |
| 43 | But he was n't going to climb up there now and once up there see some obstruction ahead , some tunnel rim that might be just too low , so that he had to get down again and come back in like Damon had . |
| 44 | So that he had to get a job elsewhere — somewhere much better , ’ said Pickerage . |
| 45 | An oil and gas businessman , down from New York , he was one of Littledale 's ‘ bloody types ’ ; so much so that he had celebrated his donation for weapons , to the dismay of Channell 's PR lady , by going to the Hay Adams and ordering steak tartare . |
| 46 | His face was smiling and , when you tapped the head , it rocked on a concealed axle so that he seemed to chortle at the absurdity of human antics . |
| 47 | His face grew puffy , his arms and legs swelled up , and his fingers turned into purple sausages so that he kept dropping his darts . |
| 48 | It overlooked the street , it was too hot , and the people on the other side of the wall had been watching the hotel 's cable channel late and loud so that he 'd had to go around and hammer on their door . |
| 49 | The microphone was likely to exaggerate the idiosyncrasies of a voice , so that he appeared to say ‘ Jairmany ’ rather ‘ Germany ’ and ‘ Jeeoos ’ rather than ‘ Jews ’ . |
| 50 | Although the Shorter Oxford Dictionary says that it means that the person has drunk ‘ intoxicating liquor to an extent which affects steady self-control , ’ it is arguable that the person must have taken intoxicating liquor to excess so that he has lost the power of self control . |
| 51 | It 's got to be important to the child so that he needs to know whether he means four times two-plus-one or four-times-two plus one , whichever way it is . |
| 52 | His legs immobile , panic locking his limbs , so that he stood watching , helplessly , pathetically … |
| 53 | He then leans forward , and is guided up and round , so that he pivots to swing his hips round and onto the chair . |
| 54 | He was burrowing into responsibilities , looking for them almost , for they gave substance to that which bound Emily to him — and still the shock of jealousy pulsed occasionally making him shudder so that he blushed to seem to be shivering . |
| 55 | I 'd rather him not travel it , I 'd rather him stop here on Sunday and not come home so that he 's got ample rest , cos he 's not getting it I , I , I du n no , I , I might be wrong , but he moans at me cos I knock me |
| 56 | Hurry up so that he 's got a paddy on at teatime . |
| 57 | It was n't merely that he had lost stones in weight — dash it , the man 's sobriquet was a libel now — but that his whole demeanour was that of a soldier completely confused , completely disorientated . |
| 58 | It was not merely that he had paid her shot . |
| 59 | ‘ Nay , 't is too risky , ’ said Edward , making it clear none the less that he had set aside his former objections . |
| 60 | ‘ Only that he 'd known you , that you might like to have the letters and the statue . ’ |