Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] he [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He looked worried — or perhaps he looked thwarted . |
| 2 | Yet every six months or so he found another excuse to get in touch with her . |
| 3 | When the other rabbit spoke , however , it was clear that either he had no interest in what Hazel had said , or else he had some other reason for not questioning him . |
| 4 | Corbett could have sworn that momentarily he glimpsed another figure , shadow-like , but fled on . |
| 5 | This was the Preface to a selection of the poems , which Leavis was to handle roughly , as he felt that Eliot had no business to be praising Tennyson , any more than later he had any business to be endorsing Kipling . |
| 6 | Nevertheless , he felt that intellectually he understood both emotions better than his friend . |
| 7 | Sometimes they carried out the work at the Hankses ' cottage and occasionally at the farm , but so tired was Seb as a result of the long days he was working that twice he fell asleep while Carrie was writing . |
| 8 | Sergeant Dixon ( stripes newly stitched ) was also enjoying himself , although initially he had serious doubts about whether he — or anyone else , for that matter — could successfully handle his assignment in the ridiculously short period of the three or four hours which Morse had asserted as ‘ ample ’ . |
| 9 | That first act of over-familiarity had secured him all the credit he would ever need and besides he felt wild , restless , a mood in which he knew himself all too prone to indiscretion . |
| 10 | It was such a beautiful day and suddenly he became aware of a surge of relief not to be in London . |
| 11 | Now , being a shepherd , he was accustomed to doze at noontime , and so he fell asleep , and his hand relaxed on the rein . |
| 12 | I mean community groups were part of it th they did n't sponsor those , they did sponsor individuals , I mean it 's interesting because example that in sponsoring individuals and teams example involve them sponsored by Nike on drug charges and sign their interviewed about his drug charges Nike T-shirt on and so he said that you know one of their criteria was , criteria was not sponsoring individuals . |
| 13 | And so he asked this girl Jane and , and then he asked me and erm and er had I sat down and thought about it I could have said well er what I thought , you know , the correct way er but I thought well there 's correct and there 's correct and I think the right way is to write to it and to say yes thanks |
| 14 | One day he found himself in charge of the biggest train set in Never Never Land , and so he made some jolly exciting movies about friendly aliens , man-eating sharks , and an archaeologist who zoomed around the world thrashing Nazis . |
| 15 | And so he became one of Tukaram 's disciples . |
| 16 | Pitt-Rivers was well aware that excavation destroys evidence as it uncovers it , and so he kept meticulous records . |
| 17 | These are forbidden by our law , which is called the Yasa , and so he killed both of them . |
| 18 | Then indeed , after a long time , Childebert considered what ought to be added , and he instituted from 78 to 83 , which he is known to have imposed worthily , and so he transmitted these writings to his brother Chlothar . |
| 19 | And so he lived this strange life — half-man , half-phantom . |
| 20 | Fénéon , like other excellent critics , was a valued friend of artists , and so he remained all his life even though he gave up writing criticism after a decade of working on the Revue blanche from 1893 to 1903 . |
| 21 | And so he ascribes all the dark aspects of Presocratic drama to the imperfection of a young and immature culture . |
| 22 | A shepherd can never be sure at what hour he 'll be done for the day , but the priest 's man leaves Upton as soon as Vespers is over , and so he did this time . |
| 23 | I said , well just carry on and so he used this er workshop at the back . |
| 24 | Gaily knew very little about the ways of church services , and so he sat halfway towards the back , looking at the coffin and the windows full of pale saints carrying lilies and the dust motes in the groin of the roof . |
| 25 | Perhaps he thought that a man , or more than one man , was trying to hurt or kill his mother , and perhaps he thought this nearly every night of his life . |
| 26 | " His hair has been better since he 's been with Sarah Brightman , " confides one long-term associate , " and perhaps he developed more ofa sense of humour . |
| 27 | To him it appeared as a sceptre , not as a sword , and perhaps he took this as a sign . |
| 28 | If only he had some security , if only his art supplies were replenished . |
| 29 | If only he had some tools … |
| 30 | All his life , the fool thinks that if only he tried another woman , or holiday , or whatever , then this time he would really catch the mysterious something . |