Example sentences of "he [adv] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He rather hoped that Eleanor would say this , even though other girls had n't . |
| 2 | On reflection , he rather regrets that they were n't looking out for each other . |
| 3 | The courts have recently demonstrated a reaction against an absurdly over-generous approach to the construction of agreements in the employee 's favour : see Home Counties Dairies Ltd v Skilton [ 1970 ] 1 WLR 526 in which the defendant was employed by the plaintiffs as a milkman and he expressly agreed that for a period of one year after his employment terminated he would not 'serve or sell milk or dairy produce " to any person who had been a customer of his employers and who had been served by him during the six months prior to his leaving . |
| 4 | Believing our intellectual abilities to be God-given , he presumably thought that , had they not been sufficient for our needs , God would not have supplemented them by innately endowing us with anything other than truth . |
| 5 | When Paine stated that a governmental act contrary to the constitution is an act of ‘ power without right ’ , did he thereby imply that such an act would be unconstitutional ? |
| 6 | We learn that he has not only killed his brother-in-law for opposing the Iranian government but that he unrepentantly believes that ‘ war is the source of love and hope and satisfaction . ’ |
| 7 | I got on pretty well with Reg Witter , the games and PE master and he secretly approved when I scored 50 against rivals Barnstaple . |
| 8 | When he had sex , he secretly fantasised that he was the woman but even that was confusing because the concept of being with a man repulsed him . |
| 9 | Mr Gorbachev pleased his grinning hosts in East Berlin when he politely remarked that whatever affected the future of the GDR would be decided in Berlin . |
| 10 | He eventually escaped and delivered the dispatches to Shrewsbury . |
| 11 | He was now in close touch with the Revd M. J. Berkeley [ q.v. ] , the ‘ father ’ of British mycology , whom he eventually succeeded as Britain 's leading mycologist , but whom he always acknowledged as his master . |
| 12 | There he 'd met another woman whom he eventually married and she was then expecting their first child . |
| 13 | ‘ What a coy little polyp you are , to be sure , ’ said the doctor , but he eventually lassoed and dispatched it too . |
| 14 | He eventually left after Sherrin agreed to send him a script . |
| 15 | He eventually resigned as ordinary in November 1727 . |
| 16 | And he did but then he was a lot older and he eventually stopped and er there would have been one at Woodhouse in Burness . |
| 17 | He eventually found that the ideal mix was 55 per cent Polled Lincoln Red , 35 per cent Polled Beef Shorthorn ( he had also succeeded in polling the latter ) and 10 per cent Aberdeen Angus , which improved the qualities he desired without reducing size and liveweight gains . |
| 18 | Remarkably , Pliny slept calmly during the early part of the night , although ashes had begun to pile up outside the house , but he eventually awoke as the situation deteriorated . |
| 19 | He eventually panicked and ran off as the boy screamed for help . |
| 20 | He eventually concludes that it involved another acquisition — this time the American firm of Keebler in 1974 . |
| 21 | He eventually suggested that Orkney had used Highland Region 's guidelines , but the procedures used did not , in fact , comply with even these guidelines . |
| 22 | He did , and when he eventually learned that the child 's mother had committed suicide and that out of compassion the rag woman had taken her into her house to save her being put in the workhouse or farmed out , again they both agreed that the rag woman had worthy motives . |
| 23 | If Bede is to be believed , Oswine proved an attractive ruler who gained the admiration of Aidan , which suggests that Oswiu faced a dangerous rival in this Deiran king whom he eventually out-manoeuvred and slew by treachery the ninth year of the latter 's reign ( HE 111 , 14 ) . |
| 24 | He sarcastically suggests that the story was probably invented ‘ to gratify some friends , who would be glad to hear what use can be made , even in point of life and manners , of a microscope ’ . |
| 25 | His failure before the English courts led him directly to Strasburg where he successfully claimed that his rights guaranteed by the European Convention on Human Rights had been violated . |
| 26 | Nails took such a proposition in his stride , unworried ; Jazz , although slightly apprehensive , was keen because swimming was the discipline he most enjoyed and was making the best progress in ; only Hoomey 's eyes came out on stalks at the presumption . |
| 27 | This he duly did while Eric and I were out flying kites . |
| 28 | Indeed , although Hegel does not admit quite what I am now suggesting , he effectively concedes that , given the difference between the sexes , unity between them is impossible . |
| 29 | When Paul denies that God is an idol in a shrine , he effectively denies that God is anywhere else too . |
| 30 | He bitterly regretted that the knife thrown during the banquet had not hit its target for he had recognised Corbett as a dangerous man . |