Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [conj] he [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I ca n't say touch for touch how we became lovers because , really , we had been ever since he came into the room and found me still there , waiting and pretending . |
| 2 | Rolls-Royce will be hoping there are more where he came from . |
| 3 | Martha , her youngest , was being courted by Sam Baldwin , the youngest son of the family at Cauldron Mill ; although the lad had not yet spoken to Jonadab , Annie knew it would not be long before he asked for their daughter as his bride . |
| 4 | ‘ I hope it will not be long before he returns to the front bench . ’ |
| 5 | She had blinds on the window and said she would n't be long when he knocked at the locked door . |
| 6 | Hubert shall see where to-morrow will find me , and I 'll be there before he looks for me . |
| 7 | She had nearly told him she would n't be there when he came for her . |
| 8 | Since it took so long for Dobson finally to take over in Macclesfield , it may be either that he returned to Stockport as Master from some period or that the Goldsmiths forgot that they had appointed Escolmbe , or that Escolmbe himself never took up his duties . |
| 9 | She reminded me of a wasp as she flitted round him , a wasp suddenly aware , in the way wasps have , that there is rotting matter in the vicinity , for she had been upstairs when he arrived by way of the garden and could n't have seen him . |
| 10 | It is not that he lies about them , rather that only a patient and omnivorous prospector would have found the particular treasures which he quotes . |
| 11 | It 's not her fault Petya wo n't speak to me ; it 's just that he turned against me when I divorced his mother . |
| 12 | ‘ It 's just that he looks like bottling the Tokyo job , ’ she said quietly . |
| 13 | I think it 's just that he arrived at the same conclusions . |
| 14 | He 's not like he seems on the talkshows . |
| 15 | Moore is also the man who holds fixedly to the belief that it is solely because he lives in a Labour borough that his pavements have broken and cracked paving-stones . |
| 16 | It 's here that he worked on the painstaking part by part design of the bike on a computer . |
| 17 | His arm touched Martin 's occasionally as he brushed with short back and forth movements at the front of his mouth and then the toothbrush plunging to the back . |
| 18 | It was only after he went into hospital that I started spending much time with him , because we knew his illness would run a rapid course . |
| 19 | She did nothing much about it — Eismark was still just somebody in shipping , not a politician — and it was only when he came onto the Secretariat that she asked for money to do some more work about it . ’ |
| 20 | It was only because he belonged to a good-hearted owner , Mrs Prentice , the wife of a local solicitor , that Bill had persevered with him . |
| 21 | It was thus that he arrived at his figure of six hundred and twenty thousand three hundred and thirty one pounds to the overall cost of future care in this case . |
| 22 | Now some of that bitterness was back as he looked at Teacher Peng . |
| 23 | It was here that he died in March 1779 and laid to rest beside the sea in the churchyard at Marske . |
| 24 | It was n't that he wanted to be more imaginative than them . |
| 25 | The cave might have been unfamiliar , but Travis 's face was n't as he knelt beside her , holding out a cup . |
| 26 | And when he passed me I did not like to look at his face because it was dark like the shadows of the hill , and when he reached the door he laughed and I did not like to hear him laugh , and when he reached the yard he stopped because Beuno was there and he said to him , ‘ She 'll be all right now . |