Example sentences of "[conj] he was [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just where he was now and where he was heading was uncertain , this possibly having much to do with the non-arrival of Murray and the Steward , since both would be coming from the West Country and Balliol was thought to be marching southwards down the middle of the land . |
| 2 | She just said that he was here when she first came to the Zoo and that he 's been here longer than anyone else . |
| 3 | But they were still respectful to the Emperor ; as fellow-Muslims they were part of the group that had dominated India for centuries , and it is unlikely that he was nearly as worried by their attitude as he was by the threat of Persian invasions like the one that led to Delhi being captured and plundered in 1739 , or by the rebellious Marathas of western India , Hindu in religion and devoted to cavalry raids to plunder their neighbours . |
| 4 | Archbishop Aethelberht is said not to have spared evil kings , and there must be a possibility that he was soon as disenchanted with Aethelred 's faction as he had been with Alhred 's . |
| 5 | He was a highly educated gentleman , a very well known Varsity athlete , but he came to me with a bad report that he was completely and utterly clueless about some of the finer points of simple take-off and landing procedures . |
| 6 | Stories that he was physically or mentally ill had , in fact , spread rapidly in summer 1942 . |
| 7 | Hall said afterwards that he had not realized himself capable of such sustained accurate bowling , but kept at it simply because Worrell wanted him to ; he also said that he was physically and mentally shattered at the end of it . |
| 8 | In the 1962 election he stood against McAteer , making it clear that he was just as committed a nationalist but criticising the MP for the narrowness of his appeal and calling on him to send his election literature to all voters , not just to Catholics . |
| 9 | She was glad when Westerfield church hove into view and sensed that he was just as relieved . |
| 10 | Then a Leed rang up saying that he was there and that the particular aviatical chant in question had been initially struck up by the away end , and only joined in by a shameful minority ( ahem ) of Leeds fans . |
| 11 | Once Jonadab had threatened physical violence , the son realised that he was more than a match for his ageing parent . |
| 12 | It was true that he was more than capable of all that ; what was more , the measures Merymose described were ones which he would usually have taken instinctively . |
| 13 | Robyn placed her hand over his , lifting it away , realising swiftly that he was more than a little drunk . |
| 14 | I felt sure that he was more than a little drunk , but his voice never slurred or changed from that flat resonance that makes so many Americans sound as though they are speaking over a loud-hailer . |
| 15 | A breath alcohol test reavealed that he was more than three times over the legal limit . |
| 16 | And he was here before he bought the place . |
| 17 | But once I saw him lumbering down Ward Street , you know , opposite , and he was here as well , messing around with the television . |
| 18 | Gaunt showed consistent loyalty to his father and , after 1377 , to his young nephew Richard II , but he lacked the charismatic authority of his father and eldest brother , and he was widely if unfairly blamed for the misfortunes that befell England in the last years of his father 's reign . |
| 19 | As happened with Balfour , the second honour , being quicker to confer , came first , and he was briefly and incongruously Sir Stanley Baldwin . |
| 20 | And he was there but there was no way of getting back . |
| 21 | J. was one of these in his capacity as fitter/armourer , and he was there when an accident occurred which could have escalated into absolute disaster . |
| 22 | And Morgan J well he was the headmaster when I went to school first and he was there when I left and he retired and he was still here You know going about . |
| 23 | And then of course he tells me about punk rock and he was there and he was the meaning of punk rock . |
| 24 | Suddenly there was a rush of water and he was there and she grabbed at him and then the world and white water spun as he entered her again , deeply , thoroughly , moving so desperately that she moaned against his mouth . |
| 25 | So erm mum went down one day and he was there and she said he were with my sister 's boy , they were both sleeping rough . |
| 26 | parked behind , but then somebody else came and parked in front of him , and he was there and sort , you could see him looking you know , he looked at the driveway and he looked , he was looking in his rear view mirror and then he turned round and looked like this , then he looked at the front , and he was thinking my god I ca n't get out of here , and all of a sudden a little car comes up the road stops , goes beep , beep on the horn , wan na get in the drive , this bloke went ha , ha , ha , ha and he could n't do anything |
| 27 | But I was smiling , and he was too when he shook his head . |
| 28 | His immediate superior and his superintendent had departed ten minutes before for a conference at Lewes and he was more than somewhat at a loss . |
| 29 | An awkward silence came between them and he was more than grateful when Mister Tom called out to him . |
| 30 | He was n't very bright and he was more than a bit of a bore with it . ’ |