Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] he [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was bad enough that he had this damn-fool obsession with programming — if he had got his priorities right in the first place , he and Emma might have made some headway . ’ |
| 2 | In the ensuing hours and days he would get to know Francis Garland perhaps better than he knew many of his colleagues and acquaintances . |
| 3 | Christians I have suggested , if they are rightly to be named Christians , must in some sense believe that God was in a unique way related to Christ , so that he becomes particular for them , and they are ( as I am not ) in their religion related to history . |
| 4 | This meant that for six weeks he was on a special bed that could be turned so that he spent some hours on his back and some on his front , never getting off the bed at all . |
| 5 | The young man stood for a moment on an overhanging ledge of the bank , looking down at the water ; the dog swam round and round below ; the man 's body was flecked all over with light and the shadow patterns of leaves , so that he seemed some human extension of the place . |
| 6 | The student is given the opportunity either of broadening his areas of study so that he learns some of the principles and methods of several disciplines or of concentrating on the narrower range in order to become a specialist after suitable experience , training or further study . |
| 7 | The Captain said nothing so that he felt obliged to go on , to explain himself . |
| 8 | It will also help him set the stock level for each item , so that he has sufficient stock , but not too much . |
| 9 | On account of this , very many cases from all over the world began to be brought to his audience so that he concluded several major cases in his time which were started long before . |
| 10 | He had been driving too fast , that was what the police had said , and she could believe it now — he always had , when he was down , sunk into that deep trough of depression that occasionally consumed him , so that he lost all self-belief , all self-esteem . |
| 11 | Only that he had more money than he could count , but she knew that already . |
| 12 | But Melody had her face turned up to him eagerly and he remembered other details of Boz 's wedding night party : his meeting with Melody 's mother and the small , shabby tent that was her home . |
| 13 | Perhaps if he followed one path , he would find a place where they came together ? |
| 14 | Perhaps he would have fared better if he pleaded one of the defences in section 24 ( see paragraphs 16–22 to 16–25 below ) . |
| 15 | She rocked him gently and he nestled close and put his thumb in his mouth . |
| 16 | Richard Armstrong has left to become Curator of Contemporary Art at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh , and Richard Marshall has cut a deal that allows him to remain only until he finds another job . |
| 17 | He spoke Maa fluently and he had unrivalled connections . |
| 18 | Similarly when told that only if he returned all his tournament winnings would he get to heaven William replied in exasperation that it was impossible . |
| 19 | But he can bridge it only if he has broad lines of policy clear in his head ; if , knowing his own mind , he drives his authority down through the departments ; and if he is prepared to understand that the fruits of his efforts may appear long after the presidency of William Jefferson Clinton , gourmand and ground-breaker . |
| 20 | He is not obliged to deal with proofs lodged after the last date for proving but may do so if he thinks fit ( r 11.3(2) ) . |
| 21 | Wycliffe 's pipe was drawing nicely and he sat relaxed , as though he might stay indefinitely . |
| 22 | His lips clamped together and he raised one corner of his thin mouth in a spiteful leer , his large bald head nodding deliberately to and fro while he waited for the younger man 's response . |
| 23 | ‘ Over the next couple of months he got his life together and he met this girl and they got engaged . |
| 24 | His teeth were gritted together and he had dark circles under his eyes . |
| 25 | Livingstone frequently seemed oblivious of his wife 's sufferings , perhaps because he walked thousands of miles and endured fever , dysentery , near starvation , assaults by hostile tribes and was attacked by a lion . |
| 26 | Already comfortable to say the least as an Oxfordshire landowner , he 's now the toast of the publishing world and all because he had one very good idea for a thriller . |
| 27 | Sir Ralph wished me to stay during the Yuletide season — even more so after he became distraught and upset . ’ |
| 28 | Things that have happened long before he got involved with the club and then all the problems on the field with performances results and injuries . |
| 29 | Man must have been conscious of memories and purposes long before he made any explicit distinction between past , present , and future . |
| 30 | When he got out , he had the feeling he was n't wanted and that as an infant he was a problem to his family — a feeling which he expressed publicly long before he became aware that his sister was really his mother . |