Example sentences of "[conj] [adj] [conj] he [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 But it is at scrum-half or stand-off that he eventually aims to establish himself .
2 Motion will have to do better than this if he seriously intends his series of novels to capture the feel of a period .
3 He then decided he could make a better biplane than many that he daily worked upon and with his four brothers ( Tom , Mark , Bob and Ed ) , they built the first ‘ Gee Bee ’ .
4 He was so tall and masculine that he probably went for the dainty feminine types .
5 The photograph he wanted was all crushed and curled but he soon healed it with a squeeze of his fist …
6 He had n't come prepared , he was cold , wet and hungry and he just wanted to go home , go to sleep and forget about everything , hoping it will all have disappeared in the morning .
7 He told magistrates to Aztecs the dog is sacred and ceremonial and he simply did n't know he needed a licence .
8 Tall and slim , without the usual broad shoulders of the pace man , he had excelled at athletics as a youngster , with the result that he was a fast bowler like virtually no other ; his approach to the wicket was so soft and silky that he hardly seemed to touch the ground at all , and several umpires said that they were not able to hear him running in .
9 It was very pleasant and peaceful and he almost forgot about the boy .
10 She found him uncouth and dirty and he often smelt of abattoirs and of the chicken carcases or sides of beef he had been painting .
11 I could well , could well be the same event as that because he certainly looks to be the right sort of character .
12 Simple as that And he always wanted to be in on any underground culture going .
13 His counsel had tried to disprove the footprint evidence as indistinct and he vehemently denied that he had ever used a hiking stick .
14 I 've never been into party political material as such and he just does n't make me laugh . ’
15 It did n't matter about Timothy Gedge , she said , as long as he never came to the bungalow again .
16 ‘ However , although like any attractive red-blooded man he 's had his share of romances , apparently he did n't regard any of them as long-term for he never sealed them with the ring . ’
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