Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] he [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Harbury tried to grab the apparent opportunity but Wickham neatly turned the conversation so that Shildon was able to go on where he had left off . |
| 2 | It had worked very well last night with Fräulein Hubert , better than he 'd hoped , but he ought to be careful until his plans were all consolidated , then he could dump Ingrid and carry on where he 'd left off with that lovely little thing . |
| 3 | Dillon and Mann L.JJ. held that he had erred in English domestic law , because he had misunderstood the Hoffmann-La Roche case as extending to local authorities a privilege which belonged to the Crown alone ; and furthermore that he had erred in Community law because , since it is the duty of the national court to ensure the legal protection which persons derive from the direct effect of provisions of Community law , it was necessary to require an undertaking in damages to protect any current right which Wickes might have , by virtue of article 30 , to open their doors for Sunday trading . |
| 4 | When I did emerge to eat , he remarked gloomily that he 'd managed to stick them to the bottom of the pan . |
| 5 | He realised suddenly that he had to go to the bathroom . |
| 6 | After this episode I stopped telephoning him , only to find he enjoyed the game so much that he began calling me . " |
| 7 | Having written a fairly scathing account of this approach in draft , I sent it to John Austin Baker ( as I have also sent my account of their work to Christian feminists whom I discuss in this book for comment ) only to receive a delightful letter from him which rescinded much that he had written , explained that he had been given the title , and essentially agreed with my criticism ! |
| 8 | Hope walked back into Grasmere even more thoughtfully than he had left it . |
| 9 | So although he has gone to some trouble to leave tracks across his own land at Highgrove specially for the local hunt , the Beaufort , he hardly ever joins them . |
| 10 | The question for Iavolenus therefore is whether the period of sixteen years was supposed to be for the benefit of the trustee ( so that he could enjoy the income from the estate in the meantime ) or of the estate itself ( so that it would fall into the hands of the testator 's son only once he had reached the age of responsibility ) . |
| 11 | For someone she had met only once he had had a remarkable impact on her . |
| 12 | She noticed belligerently that he did add ginger ale to the brandy . |
| 13 | So once he 's paid the first payment by the fifth of January . |
| 14 | She closed the door after her no less gently and purposefully than he had done , and snatching off her shoes , ran silently up the two flights of stairs to her own room . |
| 15 | On her return the mother had screamed aloud that he had killed the child . |
| 16 | Williamson felt he had a special bond with Hitler , and even at times imagined aloud that he had spoken to him on that fateful Christmas day . |
| 17 | Was n't it enough that he had violated her ? |
| 18 | If the tone was a little condescending she did not complain ; it was startling enough that he had brought himself to say it at all , and so he must have felt , for he coloured to the brows . |
| 19 | A quick spin of his ‘ Sweet Freedom — The Best Of ’ compilation album of a few years back is proof enough that he has had many hits in his home patch without making similar in-roads here . |
| 20 | He once told Earl delightedly that he had spotted Abrams at an airport but Abrams ( perceptiveness not his strong suit ) had not spotted him , and that ‘ his tradecraft of observing was better than Elliott 's ’ Secret agents carried gadgets with which they could speak to headquarters from the most unlikely places ; once , at a party , North was said to have produced a scrambler-telephone from his briefcase , together with a half-eaten sandwich , and to have gone out into the garden to dial the house . |
| 21 | It had worked very well last night with Fräulein Hubert , better than he 'd hoped , but he ought to be careful until his plans were all consolidated , then he could dump Ingrid and carry on where he 'd left off with that lovely little thing . |
| 22 | Simpson could see that they knew each other much better than he 'd presumed . |
| 23 | Klein advanced Gentle five hundred pounds to pay the rent on the studio , and left him to it , remarking only that Gentle was looking a good deal better than he 'd looked previously , though he smelt a good deal worse . |
| 24 | In fact , rather better than he 'd seemed the last time I 'd seen him . |
| 25 | The truth was that Harry understood Minter better than he cared to admit . |
| 26 | He was holding up even better than he had hoped . |
| 27 | He curled up tight and slept better than he had done all year . |
| 28 | Lucy Lane had been working in his team for three years but he felt that he knew her only a little better than he had done after her first month . |
| 29 | Nicklaus , now 52 , was one of 12 players to break 70 with a 69 , a score matched by not only Bernhard Langer and Steve Richardson , of the Europeans , but also Woosnam , who began his defence of the title much better than he had expected . |
| 30 | The entire plot had worked even better than he had dared to hope . |