Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] [adv] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only he had never minded about Kathleen , the youngest of them . |
| 2 | While Lee 's claims on Dickerson are evidently still large , perhaps he 'd better look for a new cinematographer now that his old pal has a director 's credit . |
| 3 | So he sat there thinking about life and things ; |
| 4 | Meanwhile he continued also to operate as a moneylender , advancing large sums on bond during these same decades , and was appointed to a royal commission on the cloth trade in the late 1630s . |
| 5 | Thereafter he became better known as a forensic scientist achieving such professional distinctions as presidency of the Medico-Legal Society and of the Forensic Science Society ( of which Grant was a founder member and secretary ) . |
| 6 | When I spoke with him yesterday he had just returned from the funeral of his father-in-law , who had died after months of cancer . |
| 7 | Then on the way back he had suddenly turned to Maggie and said , |
| 8 | So far he had only spoken to minor figures of the tragedy which befell Alexander III at Kinghorn . |
| 9 | Well he had actually retired from the police force , he 'd been cited and he 'd been cleared , but he was actually , as it turned out later , practising paedophilia and as he realized that in fact the investigation was coming close to him , he shot himself |
| 10 | Eight hours ago he had never heard of any of them , now he was thinking of them by their first names : Francis , Edwin , Beryl , Anna , Cathy … |
| 11 | Presumably he had already set in motion the machinery which next month would array a large army under his command , but when he approached Limoges he still had only a few men with him . |
| 12 | From Shrewsbury a few days earlier he had already written to Tom Poole : |
| 13 | The autobiography — Sins of My Old Age and Earlier he had already dipped into , and he went back to it reluctantly for a more systematic reading . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | If he had n't provoked the argument then he had certainly seized on it with relish . |
| 16 | ‘ Fifteen years ago , ’ she continued , ‘ he was in Egypt in the army of the Caliph and then he came home covered in glory , a rich man . |
| 17 | He remembered his own great grief , and how he had finally emerged from it with a renewed sense of purpose ; for though his epic was intended to address the spiritual crisis of the age , it had also been conceived as a requiem for his lost wife and a celebration of her unwavering faith in his ability . |
| 18 | He was talking about his childhood in Wales and how he had once wanted to be a detective . |
| 19 | Rufus , sleek with love and ardent spirits , thought with wonder about how he had actually imagined for all of ten minutes that the house they talked about in the Standard might be Wyvis Hall . |
| 20 | Maybe he 'd already started up the stairs when he heard the lady coming down and dodged round them to hide . |
| 21 | And , after all those earlier occasions when he had carefully skirted round the subject of Elise , was this , at long last , a confession of his involvement ? |
| 22 | He started out doubtfully with Gass-coh-een , moved on to Gass-kern and after half-time , when he 'd obviously consulted with his equally confused colleagues , went for Jax-oh-in . |
| 23 | The Meadhaven Clinic was , he knew , one of the best in the country , yet he felt immensely frustrated after every visit he made there . |
| 24 | Edward 's brother-in-law became King Harold II , in 1066 , but he died later that same year at the Battle of Hastings , to whence he had travelled from Stamford Bridge in Yorkshire , where he had successfully defended against an invasion of Norwegians . |
| 25 | Overheads continued to be minimal when , after four months , he moved from Cheshire , where he had temporarily alighted for personal reasons , to Barnoldswick in Lancashire . |
| 26 | Also for most of the time at this period in their affair Boy was either slightly drugged , or drunk , or exhausted ; and he was in a permanent state of sexual tension , for either he had just come from O's bed or he was on his way to it . |
| 27 | Again he tried unsuccessfully to struggle to his feet , but failed . |
| 28 | Nicholson was left smarting and wondering why he had ever strayed to the glamour side of the business from the safe haven of Corman 's mini-budgets and rented sets . |