Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] it [be] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And Sir Leon expressed confidence in the Conservative campaign , although he admitted it was n't over yet . |
| 2 | Although he said it is really too early to tell what life in the US will be like under President Clinton , Gates said the US economy is definitely coming back , but that it has changed . |
| 3 | Charlie could n't believe what was happening although he felt it was well worth getting a broken nose for . |
| 4 | Mhm , he did actually say that he thought it was highly unlikely |
| 5 | This unpleasant experience was alleviated by the company of his wife , who also brought with her so many domestic items that he says it was almost as comfortable as being at home ! |
| 6 | Although I knew that he was getting the care that he needed it was so hard not to be able to hold and feed him , but only to sit and look at him lying in this bright , plastic container . |
| 7 | Alas , no sooner had he started than he realised it was no longer what he wanted . |
| 8 | That one of Selby 's you know it was fine until they put an extension in just er a key station as soon as they did that this one started acting up , so he said it 's only since we did that , he said it happened the day after we put that in , I said okay , disconnected it , still did it , disconnected it at the , end here , still did it , erased it from the program so it did n't even know it existed , still did it |
| 9 | We were coming to see you last night , and then all day so he said it were n't fair to go anywhere like he was . |
| 10 | I was talking to David this afternoon , and he feels it 's too much of a coincidence for me not to be Lilian Parsons 's surviving twin . |
| 11 | He says the election is coming up soon and he thinks it 's politically motivated . |
| 12 | He shivered and he knew it was n't just the wind . |
| 13 | During the service he sat in the front pew and listened to the preacher talking about the kind of woman she had been , and he knew it was n't like that , but the doctor had given some pills and he felt drowsy and numb , and illogically cheerful , as if he was slightly drunk , but at the stage where everything seems enlarged and unfamiliar . |
| 14 | The member of staff when I spoke to him about it afterwards — I did not call him in to speak to him about it immediately because I did not think it was either my place or my duty — I told him that she was very concerned about that being said to her son and quite frankly so was I , and really was that the sort of thing to say and he agreed it was n't the thing to say but he said ‘ I was so angry at the time . |
| 15 | He had got wind of a rumour that Vincent planned to sponge off his rich relatives and he hoped it was n't true . |
| 16 | ‘ And I told him you said he was married and he says it is n't true . ’ |
| 17 | One aim is to make the familiar look unfamiliar and he says it was only when he referred back to his photographs after completing many of his drawings that he realised what he had missed . |
| 18 | And he said it 's not a charity case ! |
| 19 | what I was just gon na say was that Doug , Doug had phoned me on Friday and said had I seen it and I said no and he said it 's quite good he said |
| 20 | And Ben like when we were sort of there Ben sort of we 'd been sitting around for a while and he said it 's very embarrassing to have to ask this but you 're staying the night and stuff erm are you two a couple or are you just friends so no , just friends but it 's alright , if you do n't have any spare rooms we 'll be perfectly happy to sleep together , do n't worry . |
| 21 | I think he were going for a , a month , a month and a half summat like that , and he said it were out of this world . |
| 22 | and he said it was n't cos he |
| 23 | And he said it was n't his fault , he , he told to do by the script writers , but I mean it 's to make out that he had no right to , it 's ridiculous . |
| 24 | ‘ And he said it was all over Los Angeles that it was Jo Forbes . ’ |
| 25 | We did ask his surname and he said it was too difficult , and we had to stick to Nassim . |
| 26 | I checked with the Direktor and he said it was quite OK . |
| 27 | I showed it to Mr Malik , and he said it was very strange indeed . ’ |
| 28 | like that , and he said it was ever so funny , he took fifty up there because , I bet he told you about the money betting and all that and he 's said he bet fifty pound , he thought christ he said , I was bloody lucky he said I , I had the , I said well David . |
| 29 | He 'd have quite liked to have spent the night on the couch in Polly 's living room , as he had for the last few months of their marriage , but it had not been offered as an option and he supposed it was just as well . |
| 30 | He lay on the narrow bed and waited for the basement gate to bang in the windswept night , until he remembered it was no longer there . |