Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [conj] he [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would n't have surprised her in the slightest if he 'd left a few minutes early , just for the pleasure of leaving her stranded . |
| 2 | The first being that he had driven such motor cars before , and the second that he had consumed only the barest minimum of champagne . |
| 3 | The huge leap forward had taken place in the eighties when he had used junk bonds to enlarge his empire at a fantastic pace — until suddenly it was realized in the States that Hauser controlled the largest private financial institution in the republic . |
| 4 | He had one photograph , from Shaun 's wedding , and the photograph 's arrival had been the first that he 'd known about any of it . |
| 5 | De Gaulle 's argument against Mendès-France was essentially the same that he had used against Eisenhower in Strasbourg a few months earlier : circumstances matter . |
| 6 | If it was flat on it was the same because he 's got to go right through to the sline before he could get anything you see ? |
| 7 | The outcome is the same if he has forgotten that he has a knife on him . |
| 8 | She was sitting beside Ken , who looked depressingly the same as he had done the previous night . |
| 9 | Miller believed Bartram 's Dwarf Cherry to be the same as he had figured ; he had received the stones via Paris and Canada and , easily propagated , it was now common in gardens . |
| 10 | Was it in the 1930s after he had left the Diaghilev company ? |
| 11 | The right hon. Gentleman still has the ability to mislead the young that he has shown in his distinguished past . |
| 12 | I think we ought to ask for a pay increase , not from him , from the job cos he comes home scruffy this is the cleanest that he 's come home so far . |
| 13 | This present body of work is the closest that he has come to understanding what it is that attracts him to travel . |
| 14 | This present body of work is the closest that he has come to understanding what it is that attracts him to travel . |
| 15 | Indeed , the implication of his resignation letter was that for five years there had been conflict at the very heart of the government that had precipitated the earlier resignations of Heseltine , Lawson and , in July 1990 , Nicholas Ridley , the Trade and industry Secretary ( the last after he had expressed intemperate views about Britain 's European partners that many observers believed the Prime Minister herself shared ) . |
| 16 | Instead I tidied the spare room , glad again that I had been forced , through circumstances , to have him with me the night after his death , because to me he was n't Nigel one moment because he was breathing and not Nigel the next because he 'd stopped . |
| 17 | The youth 's uncle , slightly pink , also laughing , accepted the turn in the argument : Idi Amin might be black , he said , but he was a Muslim and he had asked for Libyan aid . |
| 18 | In private he got on very well with Lloyd George , but he never hid his doubts ; in 1917 he told Unionists that Lloyd George was a man who has the defects of his qualities " , and told his audience that he was saying no more than he had told the Prime Minister to his face ; when in 1920 he was told that Unionists would rather hear him attack Lloyd George than defend him , he told this story to the Prime Minister too . |
| 19 | It is no more than he has done to our people . ’ |
| 20 | And you have Rochester who has erm he 's not exactly been a degenerate and he has shown some restraint , he has cared for this wife , he 's brought her home . |