Example sentences of "[conj] it [be] he [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's not yet sure if it 's operable , but if it is he wants me to take the case . |
| 2 | If it was he did n't . |
| 3 | When it was he proceeded to colour it , either from memory , or with colour notes made under the same conditions as the original drawing , paying attention most of all to tonal values and local colour . |
| 4 | As it is he knows nothing whatever about me . |
| 5 | As it was he had to be satisfied with a rise of 48 per cent to £514,558 , well below the highest-paid public company boss , Lord Hanson , who received £1.5million for his efforts . |
| 6 | As it was he had obviously grown tired of the regular struggles and gone off to find someone who gave in more readily . |
| 7 | As it was he had to find his own way out of an embrace involving him far more seriously than he intended . |
| 8 | As it was he tried to think of other things . |
| 9 | Without employing his own servants as agents and deputies Sadler obviously could not have managed his group of offices ; as it was he complained of seldom going to bed before midnight and generally waking by 4. a.m . |
| 10 | In the eighteenth century he would have become prime minister before he was thirty ; as it was he appeared honourably ineligible for the struggle of life . |
| 11 | Remembering that he had sent Catherine Crane to see Angela Morgan 's employers , he decided to find out how she had got on ; late as it was he did not think she would have gone off duty without reporting to him . |