Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [subord] he [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier , avoiding Matey 's compressed lips , he had picked up the whisky bottle and reached for a glass — anything , so long as he achieved oblivion , surcease from pain — and then he had heard her voice again , in the corridor at the church hall , mockingly telling him to retreat to it . |
| 2 | But I think he has told us truly , so far as he knows truth . |
| 3 | He did not openly support the maintenance of the power of the House of Lords to veto legislation but he seemed to do so implicitly since he expressed concern that the authority of the Lords had been ‘ gravely diminished ’ He did , however , explicitly propose the introduction of proportional representation arguing that it ‘ may sometimes secure a hearing in the House of Commons for opinions which , though containing a good deal of truth , command little or comparatively little popularity ’ . |
| 4 | Not long after he took office , John Major spoke of taking 30 seats in Scotland . |
| 5 | In many firms there will be no room for dispute as to who should fill the position and for how long , ie the most experienced member of the partnership for as long as he remains hale and hearty . |
| 6 | Bradshaw was getting ready to go out again when he caught sight of what he later called ‘ indisputably the largest wave anybody has ever had to deal with ’ . |
| 7 | The biggest threat , he predicted , was the presence of that ‘ gloomy shadow master : master Albrecht Dürer knew it well enough when he placed Death behind the young couple in that beautiful etching . ’ |
| 8 | Well normally when he gives marrow bones I ask him to chop them up a bit smaller |
| 9 | Whatever the theory , Paul VI 's pontificate acted out dramatically the tensions between primacy and collegiality — but this came about only because he took collegiality seriously . |
| 10 | It had been far from the capital week he had come to expect from Cowes , what with Willie winning everything in sight , having to make diplomatic speeches to his own nephew about how jolly it was to lose to him , and then just as he got time to drown his sorrows at the Yacht Club he had to come to Broadstairs . |
| 11 | you could n't do it , but he had every opportunity the other , the twin did to get through you know and he passed his City and Guilds , but Peter 's got on alright , the other son who 's got the factory , he 's , he 's busy got an electrical panels and all that he does , you know , he 's quite good and my other son he works , he used to work at Burnt Mill , and he now has moved to erm er Stansted , he works at Stansted he works in the big food depot , that used to be years ago and he works there , he 's been there ever since he left school , since except two , two years he had in the army you know for the conscription , but he 's been there erm ever since he was fourteen and he 's now about oh , forty something now he is , I 'm not quite sure of their ages , I get muddled up I 've got , eight , eight sons altogether , so , I 've got quite a family dear . |
| 12 | Fey was something they would tell me I had just invented , but it is something that never left me during the entire period I was an Instructor and sadly I was to learn very shortly after he left Kinloss that he did not survive very long on the squadron that he joined . |