Example sentences of "[subord] [conj] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think he 'd want to have some kind of little business going where if he wants to he can go off And then he can go off and pick it up and |
| 2 | He 'd be — what — in his fifties now if he 'd lived , a Deputy Secretary , perhaps even a Second Permanent Secretary . |
| 3 | He had to drive now , where before he had merely steered . |
| 4 | Where before he went off at obtuse tangents , now he takes the songs where he wants them to go rather than let them control him . |
| 5 | That he has used his linguistic skills to make such a protest , where before he has been content merely with linguistic cleverness , marks an important development in his character and it leaves the reader with a distinctly more favourable impression of him at the end of the play than at the beginning . |
| 6 | Where as he bought these machines and cleared up the rubbish to get at the slate . |
| 7 | The dust lay peacefully , except where he 'd actually trodden or pawed . |
| 8 | And note 62/6/2 emphasises that ‘ the right of a mortgagee to his costs of a redemption or foreclosure suit is a matter of contract and not in the discretion of the court , except where he has ‘ unreasonably instituted or carried on or resisted any proceedings . ’ ’ |
| 9 | stop it , so so he had to erm just talk to our solicitors this morning and try and get this sorted out between the two solicitors . |
| 10 | Except that he ate venison and roast lamb , and drank milk laced with honey , or hot mead fragrant with herbs . |
| 11 | Although there is no contemporary account of his methods , except that he surveyed several stretches of coastline from a boat , in general his maps are impressively accurate and much more detailed than anything previously available for most parts of Ireland . |
| 12 | Nothing is known about Purney 's early education except that he spent a year at Merchant Taylors ' School . |
| 13 | Van Gelder had n't made any mistakes about her , Talbot thought , except that he 'd missed out on the wide green eyes and a rather bewitching smile . |
| 14 | He would have liked to say I 'd rather you stayed , except that he had no real reason , or no reason he could give her easily . |
| 15 | In fact he could have been me , except that he had had the initiative to ask the landladies if he could stay cheaper by foregoing the second ‘ B ’ — the breakfast . |
| 16 | What was in his mind — except that he had killed his dallta , and wished to die with him ? ’ |
| 17 | I remember little about him except that he had a black beard flecked with grey , and gave me oranges . |
| 18 | Professedly an architect , though ‘ of his architectural doings , nothing was clearly known , except that he had never designed or built anything ’ , Pecksniff |
| 19 | The glance had told her nothing except that he had retreated into himself again . |
| 20 | Anyone could tell they were brother and sister they were so much alike , except that he had a little goatee beard on his chin . |
| 21 | Except that he had had mud down his suit . |
| 22 | Questioned , Barron had refused to talk to anyone junior to Wickham and even when Wickham went to his hotel he had little to say except that he had met MacQuillan on private business , that it had nothing to do with the murder and was of no interest to the police . |
| 23 | I felt that this was possibly a chap I should look at — quite apart from the fact that I knew little of him except that he had somehow or other got out of Holland and become the ADC to Queen Wilhelmina at the Dutch headquarters in London . |
| 24 | He did not remember much about the journey back to London except that he drove very fast . |
| 25 | I had nothing against Dr Hill , except that he seemed to me an entirely incongruous appointment that Harold had made for the wrong reasons . |
| 26 | Jon Thompson 's exhibition at the Hayward repeats the liquorice allsorts nature of Celant 's compendium , except that he proposes that the work is ‘ sculpture ’ and refers to a ‘ new type of imagery ’ in the single contextual panel in the exhibition . |
| 27 | He looked like a buccaneer of old except that he wore not the wide-sleeved shirts and breeches of the past but the rough working clothes that had been her father 's . |
| 28 | ‘ I ca n't remember after that , except that he drank several cups of coffee , and some wine and some water after he returned to the table . |
| 29 | Going through Joe 's mind as he mounted the stairs were thoughts which were very similar , except that he expressed his in a slightly different way . |
| 30 | Except that he made it ‘ loo-oo-oo-ming ’ . |