Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] he [is] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not if he 's formally taken off the case . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He would have taken her to make it his own , just as he is now taking you . ’ |
| 4 | Last winter Jean-Philippe Ruggia trained harder than he 's ever done in his racing career . |
| 5 | 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 . ’ |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | well if he 's still wandering about , no he 's decided he 's not having cake though |
| 8 | He told me he 's infallibly able to recognize women even if he 's only seen them once . |
| 9 | ‘ They think only about saving the guy 's life , so they chop the leg off by guillotine , even if he 's only lost a few toes . ’ |
| 10 | But his old friend ‘ the Professor ’ is obviously a scientist of note — and perhaps best of all , is fun and always using science to produce exciting things , even if he is often defeated by magic spells ( Fig. 3 ) . |
| 11 | A man can not be an island here if he is ever to turn his back on this place . ’ |
| 12 | Already in The Black Riders , though , he has begun to grow up and Violet Needham has begun to equip him for the role of teacher and mentor even as he is still meeting the challenge of danger with the eager opportunism of a boy . |
| 13 | The second problem is that , even when he is directly involved , Butman never gets under the skin of either characters or company . |
| 14 | He has a good eye for passing and can play with both feet ( sort of ) even though he is right footed . |
| 15 | I said he wanted some of his favourite French wine — there 's an envoy from the Chancellor in with him to-night , so it rang true enough , even though he 's never sent me to bring it before . ’ |
| 16 | Now what saying with that , that 'll be used again when he is actually walking and does n't need a pram and the other one 's still toddelling |
| 17 | Other gaelic flavoured news this week includes the revelation that THE EDGE will be spending a lot more time poncing about in Tie-Rack cravats and spouting epigrams from now on as he 's just purchased OSCAR WILDE 's old gaff . |