Example sentences of "[be] [conj] he [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | If there has been a criticism , it is that he often lured artists into singing roles beyond their immediate range or capacity . |
| 32 | The truth is that he only races as a personal challenge , or for the pure enjoyment of running . |
| 33 | The result is that he now has a company worth £1.5bn . |
| 34 | I know that one of his reasons for leaving is that he genuinely wants to be able to spend more time with his family . |
| 35 | that 's if he still wants it , I suppose he does |
| 36 | That 's if he still live there as I say . |
| 37 | That 's if he ever came near Rose Cottage again . |
| 38 | It 's like he just vanished off the face of the Earth . ’ |
| 39 | It is not that the Sergeant really objects to the constable having a legitimate excuse for being late , but it is because he too has to satisfy his superior officers that his omission to visit all the constables regularly is due to efficient Police duty . |
| 40 | ‘ Well , if you must know , I think it 's because he just does n't like the idea of me leaving him . |
| 41 | So , for thirty years Alfred Glynn had preserved this room as it had been when he still believed that the silk counterpane and the eiderdown would be the covers on his marriage bed . |
| 42 | One of the results of this was that he later sought to influence his son with the truths of Scripture . |
| 43 | The problem with Seawright was that he openly voiced what many people took to be the true feelings of Democratic Unionists , often to the embarrassment of the DUP spokesmen who were presenting a more moderate position . |
| 44 | If this were so in the present case , he concealed the fact with remarkable aplomb ; but my impression was that he rather welcomed this degree of personal contact , as if it provided some sort of relief from the heavy intellectual conversation repeatedly forced upon him . |
| 45 | His reply was that he often did but not usually soon enough . ) |
| 46 | Our problem with Sir Thomas Beecham was that he usually kept talking to the orchestra while he conducted , and his words of encouragement or complaint came through loudly , especially in the pianissimo passages . |
| 47 | ‘ His most annoying habit was that he always had to be right . |
| 48 | Another thing that distinguished Mario back in the very earliest days was that he always wanted to win at everything . |
| 49 | The effect was that he always seemed to be smiling . |
| 50 | Captain Trentham was generally the bearer of such news , and what annoyed Charlie even more was that he always looked so smart , clean , and worse — warm and well fed . |
| 51 | He was exceptionally demanding and my fairly long conversation was that he almost lead me to believe that he had got the job because when he started making comments about putting his grandfather clocks in the church er thirty of them . |
| 52 | Although the main thing was that he now had clear proof that she was alive , he could see a lot more work ahead before he found her , if he ever found her . |
| 53 | ‘ Yes , ’ Fabia agreed , but what was more than obvious to her , with Ven stressing , ‘ specifically ’ stressing , that Lubor talk to her on an impersonal basis only , was that he still did n't trust her not to ask personal questions about him . |
| 54 | And what really annoyed me was that he never drank and certainly did n't go a bundle on gambling . |
| 55 | The problem was that he never had the opportunity to follow the second . |
| 56 | The only trouble was that he never seemed to bother too much with punctuation — he apparently left that to me ! ’ |
| 57 | All she could hope , therefore , was that he never did find out . |
| 58 | Finniston 's greatest disappointment during his time at British Steel was that he never succeeded in persuading the unions to form a single group to simplify negotiations . |
| 59 | ‘ The great thing about Michael , ’ he recalled , ‘ was that he never minded what you asked him to do . |
| 60 | Chairman Colin Henderson said : ‘ What struck us in our interview with Lawrence was that he definitely wanted the job and was ready to move North straightaway . |