Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [adv] [vb pp] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ All through his career he 's had the ability to lead and inspire and he 's really got through to our players and conveyed that . ’ |
| 32 | He looked as if he had just stepped out of a drawing room in the shires . |
| 33 | Of similar vintage I can recall Billy Lane turning up for an open match on the Swadlincote waters , looking as if he had just stepped out of a time warp . |
| 34 | Ray Shepherd looked up at them as coolly as if he had just driven in to work on a routine day . |
| 35 | If he had indeed come up here determined to end his life , then he might have climbed over the guard rail , leaving a scrap of thread behind as he did so . |
| 36 | The Santerres were waiting for us with Bowyer who looked as if he had really settled in , shirt open at the collar , stubby feet enclosed in buskins whilst his fat face was flushed with drink and his breath smelt like a wine press . |
| 37 | ‘ Steve ! ’ she cried in amazement as he let himself into the apartment , grinning all over his silly face as if he 'd just popped out for a paper that morning and found he 'd won the state lottery . |
| 38 | Singer 's face was flushed as if he 'd just got out of a hot bath . |
| 39 | When I quip that he sounds as if he has just come round from anaesthetic , Eva says , ‘ He has . ’ |
| 40 | Cursin " he was " cos he 'd just settled down to his kipper . |
| 41 | Not only did he own Werner Lines , a worldwide shipping empire with more than vessels in commission , but he had also branched out into the freight industry over the past four years and succeeded in cornering an important section of its competitive market by buying out a succession of small , struggling companies and amalgamating them under an experienced board of directors answerable only to him . |
| 42 | In April 1861 even the head of the Third Department thought that the regime would be forced to grant a constitution , but he added that " not only would the emperor not make up his mind to assent to the gradual introduction of constitutional forms , but he had even spoken out firmly against it very recently and had evidently not changed his mind on the question " . |
| 43 | ‘ My family were Huguenots , my lady , and therefore unwanted in la belle France , ’ D'Alembord 's contemptuous scorn for France made the Countess bridle , but he had already turned back to Lucille . |
| 44 | But he had already rung off . |
| 45 | Her father , when he came up before the Farnham Commission , had proved extraordinarily resilient , but he had still caved in , and then he had proved richly satisfying . |
| 46 | It was not just that he had gone off with someone else but he had actually gone off with a woman and it seemed to me like a betrayal of my identity . |
| 47 | He does feel sad about it , that is why he dressed in black , but he has already set out on what he believes to be his destiny , and so he wo n't allow these emotions to stop him . |
| 48 | Palin may not have travelled much as a young man , but he has now made up for lost time . |
| 49 | But he has now linked up with Scarborough and has impressed McHale during training and in the 2–2 friendly draw at Hyde United on Monday night . |
| 50 | I had two when I first came here , but erm , one came as a stray but this one I 've got is a lovely little er ginger and white one he 's , he 's about somewhere but he 's just gone out I should imagine been on the si sitting on the sideboard |
| 51 | She said oh been saying he 's gon na build one for five years but he 's never got round to it . |
| 52 | Rory had driven up and slipped into her bed like lightning , because he had already cooked up the plan to try and entice Jessica Roberts to go with him to Galway , and needed to sweeten Rosie for another evening 's absence . |
| 53 | And then he got , he got on the bus , it was a Midland Red and it was going to erm , er where , it was going out of town , anyway , and he shook hands with the driver , because I could n't help but , you know , notice what he was doing , and when I got when I was in the shop and getting the bread , the girls in there were telling me that he shook hands with them , because he had just got out of prison , and he was a born again Christian . |
| 54 | Erm it sort of backfired a bit on poor er Ray because he 'd actually written up a bid er for us to do , which was about investors in people to actually h appoint somebody to control that process which would take on board all of the training and |
| 55 | It was still hard to tell whether he had actually cottoned on to what the name was . |
| 56 | Before he had even set off , however , Pliny the Elder received urgent requests for help from people living nearer the volcano , so his trip which had been intended as something of a scientific investigation rapidly became a rescue mission . |
| 57 | He had been over twenty before he had even found out about it but he had n't been old enough to dare ask his grandmother how it had been and how she had felt and what they had talked about . |
| 58 | He and Kenneth started conversing using no fewer than five-syllable words before he 'd even got out of the car , and have been rabbiting happily like two philatelists over a rare collection . |
| 59 | It was already beginning to feel as if the last four years had never happened ; as if she were still the confused , angry , raw-nerved girl she had been when he had finally walked out on her . |
| 60 | so he goes oh what the hell and they shovel tea down him and erm he starts throwing up and , what happened is that when he , when he gets like cut down they ta take him back to the room and they put them in their boxer shorts just sitting there and they 've wired up a mouse trap to like their their |