Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [subord] he [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You wanted to be there when he found the box , your arrival was nothing to do with Barbara Coleman going home . ’ |
| 2 | He had been there since he left the Pit a year earlier and Tom had spent a week or so with him back in February . |
| 3 | Now , I did eventually get my father to tell me this ; and , according to him , it was just as he choked the last struggling life out of the dog that he heard another scream , this time from above , and inside the house , and that was the boy they called Paul being born . |
| 4 | He acquired it partly by accident , for war was near when he ascended the throne . |
| 5 | My father 's explanation was that " It was simply because he liked the sight of blood " . |
| 6 | And he was here before he bought the place . |