Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | The contract for construction of a residential development wholly or partly funded by the Housing Corporation may be awarded to a builder only if he submits the most favourable tender in competition . |
| 32 | So it is only if he admits the strength of the argument from error that he can think he is getting anywhere by refuting PC k . |
| 33 | When he told me to strip I refused , saying that I would change my clothes only if he left the room . |
| 34 | Mr Spielberg 's told Rosemarie he hopes so , but only if he finds the money . |
| 35 | He would go some way to doing so if he told the House tonight that he intends to monitor carefully what is happening and to initiate independent research into the strengths and weaknesses of the new system in its initial stages . |
| 36 | Well you took all this sort of things in your stride but the next day we heard about these houses being knocked down , you see , and I think that 's the nearest I 've been to be killed but one day , one Saturday and that was in a daylight raid , one Saturday afternoon because , you see , I was off every afternoon but I worked till ten every night , you see , and er so erm but of course Hugh worked during the day and he was off in the evening , that 's why he used to come down to see , to see us and er he used to come in er you see and leave his lodgings and , oh be about nine o'clock and he spent the last day up there perhaps with his friends , have a chat , and er , you see , and but er and I was walking along it was called and suddenly a plane came over and I thought oh I expect it 's one of ours . |
| 37 | Maybe he would worry less if he understood the situation . |
| 38 | He lies down if he hears the National Anthem . |
| 39 | He was not sure if he should tip-toe slowly and cautiously along until he reached the lower grounds of Old Ashfield , or make a sudden dash for it in the hope of outrunning any danger that might be waiting to pounce . |
| 40 | Dorcas slipped into the familiar gloom under the floor and padded along until he found the switch . |
| 41 | By canne , which could mean ‘ cane ’ in the English senses of a hollow reed or a light walking-stick , Antoine implies something rather long unless he uses the word wholly jokingly . |
| 42 | Perhaps because he plays the field . |
| 43 | Eddie gets the best lines , perhaps because he has the most lines . |
| 44 | A chubby young man called Laird Cregar appealed to me as a suspect , if only because he had the habit of being seen loitering around places where beautiful women had just been strangled . |
| 45 | The chimney sweep is bound to the church , not only because he cleans the chimneys that pump out the soot that disfigures the church but also because the church preaches a kind of Christianity that can countenance beating , starving and insanely cruel treatment towards chimney sweeps . |
| 46 | He reckons it 's only because he loves the world and the people he knows that he hates the prevailing ‘ world order ’ . |
| 47 | Barro 's procedure ignores such restrictions entirely because he estimates the monetary growth and real output equations separately and does not impose the restrictions . |
| 48 | He was playing well enough till he reached the greens , but his putts would not go in . |
| 49 | Bridges ( 1979 ) certainly does n't think so because he sees the curriculum as a selection from culture requiring value judgements over which teachers have no monopoly of wisdom . |
| 50 | She too was calm and stood patiently while he attached the chain to a length of rope around her neck . |
| 51 | So they ate bread together while he read the paper . |
| 52 | Lord Wellworthy can enforce the covenant only whilst he retains the legal estate in the Stately Mansion Hotel . |
| 53 | Long before he reached the edge of the wood he knew this was no mere cavalry raid . |
| 54 | Of another restorer working on similar sculptures , Minervino claimed that he ‘ stopped long before he reached the skin of the marble ’ . |
| 55 | Peter Powell 's adventures with kites had already put him into the headlines when he ‘ flew ’ his grandmother , long before he perfected the diamond-shaped stunter that made him a worldwide name from 1974 . |
| 56 | Garreton received a lot of the stick for the defeats against France and his Pumas days seem to be numbered , if not finished , especially after he told the French press that he would be playing in that country next season . |
| 57 | This will be so whether he takes the trouble to read them or not , and whether they are actually set out in a document in his possession , or ( subject to the question of the need to offer an oppportunity to inspect , which is discussed below ) merely incorporated into the contract by a reference in such a document . |
| 58 | He was intrigued to analyse her dreams and encouraged her to write them down before he discussed the hidden messages they may have contained . |
| 59 | Carey checked it , then dragged back on the rod and took up the slack , working that way for five minutes or so before he beached the fish . |
| 60 | Kirov 's anger dissipated somewhat as he played the recording over a couple of times . |