Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] he [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harbury tried to grab the apparent opportunity but Wickham neatly turned the conversation so that Shildon was able to go on where he had left off . |
| 2 | It had worked very well last night with Fräulein Hubert , better than he 'd hoped , but he ought to be careful until his plans were all consolidated , then he could dump Ingrid and carry on where he 'd left off with that lovely little thing . |
| 3 | Hope walked back into Grasmere even more thoughtfully than he had left it . |
| 4 | So although he has gone to some trouble to leave tracks across his own land at Highgrove specially for the local hunt , the Beaufort , he hardly ever joins them . |
| 5 | The question for Iavolenus therefore is whether the period of sixteen years was supposed to be for the benefit of the trustee ( so that he could enjoy the income from the estate in the meantime ) or of the estate itself ( so that it would fall into the hands of the testator 's son only once he had reached the age of responsibility ) . |
| 6 | For someone she had met only once he had had a remarkable impact on her . |
| 7 | So once he 's paid the first payment by the fifth of January . |
| 8 | She closed the door after her no less gently and purposefully than he had done , and snatching off her shoes , ran silently up the two flights of stairs to her own room . |
| 9 | It had worked very well last night with Fräulein Hubert , better than he 'd hoped , but he ought to be careful until his plans were all consolidated , then he could dump Ingrid and carry on where he 'd left off with that lovely little thing . |
| 10 | Simpson could see that they knew each other much better than he 'd presumed . |
| 11 | Klein advanced Gentle five hundred pounds to pay the rent on the studio , and left him to it , remarking only that Gentle was looking a good deal better than he 'd looked previously , though he smelt a good deal worse . |
| 12 | In fact , rather better than he 'd seemed the last time I 'd seen him . |
| 13 | The truth was that Harry understood Minter better than he cared to admit . |
| 14 | He was holding up even better than he had hoped . |
| 15 | He curled up tight and slept better than he had done all year . |
| 16 | Lucy Lane had been working in his team for three years but he felt that he knew her only a little better than he had done after her first month . |
| 17 | Nicklaus , now 52 , was one of 12 players to break 70 with a 69 , a score matched by not only Bernhard Langer and Steve Richardson , of the Europeans , but also Woosnam , who began his defence of the title much better than he had expected . |
| 18 | The entire plot had worked even better than he had dared to hope . |
| 19 | Perhaps you really wounded his pride when you turned him down so he wants to see you humiliated . ’ |
| 20 | Even more so than he had done the previous time , I said did n't you hear this about this at the station meeting and he said it had n't been brought up . |
| 21 | It had been great fun , much more so than he had anticipated . |
| 22 | Perhaps once he 'd gone they realized that they were better off without him . |
| 23 | ‘ ( 1 ) Where the seller delivers to the buyer a quantity of goods less than he contracted to sell , the buyer may reject them , but if the buyer accepts the goods so delivered he must pay for them at the contract rate . |
| 24 | Perhaps if he had worried less about them , and taken a less self-reproachful line , the outlines of his personality would have softened with the years . |
| 25 | Perhaps if he had met them after the confidence gained by a successful tour of India in 1976–7 , when his captaincy was much praised , the story might have been different . |
| 26 | Perhaps if he does score the tension will go from his game . ’ |
| 27 | Perhaps if he 'd realized . |
| 28 | I wondered idly if he had done something wrong and been demoted . |
| 29 | He he wo n't be there long if he does come . |
| 30 | And only until he got married again . |