Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] he [verb] [det] " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Only that he had more money than he could count , but she knew that already . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ Over the next couple of months he got his life together and he met this girl and they got engaged . |
| 12 | Man must have been conscious of memories and purposes long before he made any explicit distinction between past , present , and future . |
| 13 | In the sonnet just quoted , for instance , Shakespeare presents the Poet in a humiliating situation , indifferent to the behaviour of the Mistress with other men just so long as he gets some share of the action . |
| 14 | He knew how to hold the Conservative Party together , and , so long as he judged this right , to hold it loyal to Lloyd George . |
| 15 | Diplock LJ 's statement in Mowatt that the harm foreseen need not be GBH so long as he foresaw some physical harm , however minor , was approved in Sullivan [ 1981 ] Crim LR 46 ( CA ) , followed in Jones , above , and approved again in Savage , above ( HL ) , and Parmenter . |
| 16 | Nowhere near big enough for him to finance the war on his own , especially as he gives such a lot to charity . |
| 17 | The strain of all this told , especially when he did such things as going on a submarine foray to the Bay of Biscay while the French coast was still in German hands . |
| 18 | The more so when he thrust this fearful object at me , shamefacedly , hurriedly . |
| 19 | It was rarely that he felt such a direct clash between his twin roles as actor and detective . |
| 20 | down into his arteries and we ca n't get anything down there so they 're blocked , but he said how the hell he survived that op I do n't know he said they could 've done more with his legs but it meant another hour and a quarter minutes in surgery , and he said he 'd had enough we could n't have kept him on the table a minute longer so he said all we can do is wait , so now mum said well he 's alright in intensive care , he 's responding well , getting over the operation well , but what we was worried about was him breathing on his own , had he , had he been you see , anyway he said this on er Thursday |
| 21 | Everything else is alright it 's just that he gets that frustrated |
| 22 | It 's not just that he makes more commission by selling you an endowment rather than a repayment mortgage . |
| 23 | ‘ I am not saying that Charles is incapable of love , it 's just that he has this unreal perception of women . |
| 24 | I 'm gon na , I 'm gon na get Scott tonight if he makes any comments and this fist is gon na go strop straight where it hurts . |
| 25 | That 's one way to put it , anyway and he said that and he said he lost out on six hundred pounds ? |
| 26 | It originally appeared under the imprint of the Bodley Head , having been steered into existence by Allen Lane shortly before he left that firm to found Penguin . |
| 27 | Professor Hoskins was particularly interested in the Banbury Lane , largely because it had been identified as a prehistoric trackway by archaeologists in the 1950s , shortly before he wrote this book . |
| 28 | ‘ Wagnerian ’ is for once more than apt description , for just after he composed this symphony Korngold set to work on the score for one of Hollywood 's composer bio-pics , Magic Fire . |
| 29 | William Springett died soon after he wrote this letter in 1772 , leaving an only daughter , Anne . |
| 30 | When would it have been approximately when he started this would you say ? |