Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] he [verb] [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was a lorry driver like Charlie , his name was Maurice Cullam and until now he had scarcely opened his mouth except to pour alcohol down it . |
| 2 | Until now he had always picked her up from the hospital . |
| 3 | Until now he had never believed it to be true , that something as heavy as gold could fall naturally from the sky . |
| 4 | The truth was though , that until now he had never possessed anything much , so how could he know ? |
| 5 | Until now he had never had to court the approval of the political elite , because his monopoly of legitimacy had made him irreplaceable . |
| 6 | He had blushed at the thought and turned quickly away , but as time passed he found that he desperately wanted to share his secret with her ; until then he 'd always confided in her unhesitatingly and it seemed strange that something should now make him hold back . |
| 7 | Since then he had often recalled what Adam said next , had taken the gun from him and remarked that it was a pump-action shot-gun . |
| 8 | Since then he has steadily moved on and mostly up . |
| 9 | His brother died of a tumour , and we went to the funeral , and since then he has not eaten well . ’ |
| 10 | In 1967 Ron Gorchov dreamed up a uniquely curved and hinged frame to support the canvas on which he paints and in all the years since then he has never wavered from its use , though it has appeared in a wide variety of sizes and variations . |
| 11 | At least he had n't denied knowing Suzie 's companion . |
| 12 | At least he had n't argued with Penny . |
| 13 | At least he had n't insisted on bringing him inside . |
| 14 | At least he had n't interrogated her in his awful ‘ Georg ’ way . |
| 15 | At least he had n't had to bother with flowers for Gina . |
| 16 | Jim has made some enquiries through Italian legal colleagues and by all accounts the man does come from a very good family — very good indeed — so at least he has n't told her a tissue of lies about his background . ’ |
| 17 | At least he has n't got ta worry now . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm sorry about this , lady , ’ said the senior fireman as the lady 's lover was driven away to the casualty department , ‘ but at least he has n't come to any more harm this way . ’ |
| 19 | By now he has also reached ‘ the realm of real life ’ — by which he ‘ understood a whirling world of parading throngs , physical love and revolutionary slogans ’ . |
| 20 | But by then he had already come to doubt whether Parliament shared the commitment he felt , with Harrison , to the kingdom of Christ on earth . |
| 21 | He died within a year of taking up his new office , but by then he had successfully completed the first stage of the reduction of Wales which , according to his will , he expected to complete within his three-year term of office . |
| 22 | By then he had also begun to produce the works for which he is principally remembered , pen or lithographic facsimile reproductions of early printing and wood engraving , generally intended to remedy defects in existing copies of books . |
| 23 | I can only guess that by then he had so established himself in my mind as a man who was trying to help women that I was no longer objective . |