Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as he saw their mood he made no attempt to join or follow ; and the people , seeing he had not the cut of a government man , passed him by . |
| 2 | He 's so good seeing he 's only been here two days . |
| 3 | It drew the hungry child from his bed to the landing , where he glanced nervously at the Bogeyman 's room before creeping on tip-toe along the strip of faded carpet . |
| 4 | It was never entirely clear where he bedded down at night after he lurched from the pub with various caddying cronies of a like mind . |
| 5 | A mature scholarship to Oxford followed , where he acquired more refined snobberies than those afforded by the community of insurance clerks . |
| 6 | Next day , he flew to Heathrow , and after an overnight stop in London , travelled on to Montreal , and from there , as Thomas Leavy , to Baltimore-Washington International airport , where he checked in , as instructed , at the Ramada Inn . |
| 7 | He subsequently went to law school and became a patent attorney , where he noticed how difficult and expensive it was to make copies of documents . |
| 8 | There is no special law allowing A , B , and C to meet together in the open air or elsewhere for a lawful purpose , but the right of A to go where he pleases so that he does not commit a trespass , and to say what he likes to B so that his talk is not libellous or seditious , the right of B to do the like , and the existence of the same rights of C , D , E , and F and so on ad infinitum , lead to the consequence that A , B , C , D and a thousand or ten thousand other persons , may ( as a general rule ) meet together in any place where otherwise they each have a right to be for a lawful purpose and in a lawful manner . |
| 9 | He told Stephanie to put her feet up and went into the kitchen for solitude , where he began purposefully on the dishes . |
| 10 | Where he took on Hulk Hogan for the championship round ? |
| 11 | The coroner ignored it and crossed to the end of the room , where he took up his favourite position a-straddle the fireplace . |
| 12 | From Norfolk Louis-Napoleon travelled to Philadelphia and then New York , where he took up residence in the Washington Hotel , Broadway . |
| 13 | In less than three months he , too , had moved — to a cottage just outside the village , where he took up gardening and fishing with great energy and enthusiasm . |
| 14 | On 1 March 1830 he was appointed gardener to Charles Stanhope , fourth Earl of Harrington , at Elvaston Castle , where he took up his post on 2 August , with instructions to create a new garden . |
| 15 | This gallant officer , the colonel assured the regiment , careless of his own safety , continued the attack after Lieutenant Harvey had fallen , killing several German soldiers before reaching their dugouts , where he wiped out a complete enemy unit singlehanded . |
| 16 | He taught initially at a junior school in Berkshire , then at a grammar school , and later at Downe House , where he became well known on the art-teaching circuit when his pupils won ( for two consecutive years ) a national art competition and their work toured internationally . |
| 17 | Medina trained as a merchant in Amsterdam , moved to London in 1670 , and from 1672 until 1677 lived in Great St Helens , where he became well established as a merchant . |
| 18 | In 1875 Tosti made his first visit to London , and after this returned every year to the city , where he became very popular in fashionable circles . |
| 19 | The problem is that the man seems to have been shot indoors , somewhere where he felt sufficiently at home to take his jacket and tie off … ’ |
| 20 | For a while he was in financial difficulties , but by 1801 , after Paul 's assassination , he was working again at Tsarskoe Selo for the dowager empress and in 1802 Alexander I , the new emperor , appointed him architect-in-chief to the Admiralty , where he carried out minor works . |
| 21 | He replaced the receiver then hurried back to the water 's edge where he gathered together his tackle before returning to the cabin to pack . |
| 22 | Where he blew out with i he was at at the end of the plane . |
| 23 | He anticipated the later work of Humphry Repton [ q.v. ] by creating flower gardens adjacent to the house , as at Sandon in 1781 , where he laid out a garden under the windows of the drawing-room , planted with flowers and flowering shrubs and with a central basin of water with goldfish . |
| 24 | In the first two chapters , entitled ‘ Essex Man ? ’ and ‘ Leytonstone Boy ’ , inevitable comparison is made with Simon Heffer 's semi-fictitious brute , and Gooch 's origins are traced to the East End council flat where he grew up . |
| 25 | Matthew has to place Jesus in the right location , where he grew up , which is Nazareth in Galilee and not Egypt . |
| 26 | But Roberts discovered that it did not matter much where he grew up when he was driving through Southwark late one night on his way from work . |
| 27 | In Shepherd 's Bush , where he grew up , he and his family suffered an incident in which the police , who had surrounded the house in order to arrest Christie 's brother ( on a charge which never came to court ) then burst in and carried out the violent , unprovoked arrest of Christie and his father . |
| 28 | He married a girl from the Co Down town where he grew up and went to school . |
| 29 | Noguchi tried in vain to construct an earthwork sculpture at a Japanese-American internment camp where he lived voluntarily for a time during World War II . |
| 30 | And I do n't know exactly where he lived either . |