Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] he [be] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A hairdresser believes he sees the ghost of a fellow-soldier ; spends some years in a mental hospital ; on his release is rejected by his wife who he believes is ‘ denying him his existence ’ ; begins to think that everyone else is denying him his existence , perhaps because he was once shot at by a German and they all think he is dead ; spends his Sundays looking into the river for the bullet which missed him ; after his death , his wife discovers she is pregnant ; she lets it be known that the hairdresser has spoken to her by night and told her ‘ he was very happy that she had recognized the child as his , because that way she had stopped denying him his existence ’ ; when eventually she moves away from Piacenza , the hairdresser stops speaking to her by night . |
| 2 | Schisgal was terrific , perhaps because he was so beaten into the ground by that time , I do n't know . |
| 3 | that was only because he was like transferred there I thought that |
| 4 | In fact , it was only because he was chronically mean that she had lasted this long . |
| 5 | He stored it up — the mind 's ability to store is inexhaustible — and wrote it down when he was finally released . |
| 6 | As Sean will testify I have been pretty anti Strachan in the past especially when he was still playing when obviously suffering from his back trouble . |
| 7 | If you think of the environment Gerry Conlon was in when he was wrongfully arrested — that world of squats and lodging houses and casual labour — that 's the world I knew when I was younger . |
| 8 | Not if he 's formally taken off the case . ’ |
| 9 | I 'd be working away while he was just sitting . |
| 10 | Philip Miller married a Miss Kennet , probably not before he was well established at Chelsea . |
| 11 | The only question marks hang over the slightly corny lyrical content of some of his compositions and over whether he 's maybe working a little too closely to the Gavin Friday scheme of things . |
| 12 | He would have taken her to make it his own , just as he is now taking you . ’ |
| 13 | He engaged them with zest , stretching and testing them like a martial artist , to catalyse their own divine spark — just as he was later to do as the teacher , John Keating , in Dead Poets Society . |
| 14 | He held me fondly , but it was a characteristic gesture , just as he was always telling people he loved them , using the same tone of voice with each of them . |
| 15 | Last winter Jean-Philippe Ruggia trained harder than he 's ever done in his racing career . |
| 16 | In the rectory garden the twins still laughed and clapped , more amused than ever because he was still standing there with his eyes closed , smiling at them . |
| 17 | That temper was raised higher still when he was finally allowed through and found Matchsticks already waiting , idly smoking and flicking through a copy of Lui . |
| 18 | Bert and I both noticed it , independently like , even though Bert only saw him the once when he were so taken up looking to Celia . |
| 19 | Once when he was away getting drinks , Barber asked me how long I 'd known G.P. |
| 20 | There might well be a public library very near where he was now walking . |
| 21 | His promotion in 1644 to the important post of co-secretary to the new committee of both kingdoms may have been partly because he was already known to , and trusted by , its Scottish members , but also suggests more direct patronage . |
| 22 | He had come straight from receiving a shock like that to find another woman apparently destroying another marriage , probably because he was half expecting her to do so at that stage , viewing all women with newly disillusioned and suspicious eyes . |
| 23 | And how old he is , what he does for a living , how much he 's got in the bank — and probably whether he 's twice divorced with a string of children tucked away somewhere . ’ |
| 24 | In Das Rheingold , finished in 1854 , and , up to a point , in Die Walküre , begun in the same year , Wagner came as near as he was ever to come to giving his theories practical effect . |
| 25 | His problems were solved three years later when he was again headhunted , this time to join TI . |
| 26 | How could he do this to her — forever turning up when he was least expected and always managing to catch her at a disadvantage ? |
| 27 | I thought it was going to be one of those horrific accidents but it does n't seem like it now because he was brutally injured . ’ |
| 28 | and records himself going for a piss but he does a bit , it cuts out when he 's actually pissing but he 's going on about now the biros are getting in the way of my knob here |
| 29 | well if he 's still wandering about , no he 's decided he 's not having cake though |
| 30 | He told me he 's infallibly able to recognize women even if he 's only seen them once . |