Example sentences of "[pron] [be] [conj] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , I said , I 'll give it a chance , I said , and if it does n't pay , Cos he was better off than I was because he had the two shops . |
| 2 | Athelstan sensed that , if he had known who they were before he answered the door , he would never have let them inside , or else would have taken measures to hide whatever he had in the house . |
| 3 | ‘ The last I saw of him was as he entered the bedroom , ’ Petion replied . |
| 4 | The two went into a long drinking session , and the end of it was that he bought the man 's seventeen-year-old daughter outright , with the last of his grant . |
| 5 | It was after he broke the engagement that the real craziness started . |
| 6 | Walter Robins told him it was because he antagonised the fasties by doffing his cap after evading a bouncer ( Randall used to infuriate Lillee in this way ) ; Barrington , though , was only being his naturally jolly self . |
| 7 | I did not ask him why , but I sensed that it was because he knew the culprit . |
| 8 | It was because he liked the idea of death , because he wanted to talk about it . |
| 9 | Tug had forgotten what day it was until he heard the bells . |