Example sentences of "[be] [adv] [conj] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Dandelion , the dashing story-teller , so eager to be off that he jumped the ditch and ran a little way into the field before stopping to wait for the rest . |
| 3 | The new rule is ‘ no player will be offside if he receives the ball directly from his own half of the field ’ . |
| 4 | And she definitely did n't want to be around when he got the news that she wanted a divorce . |
| 5 | You wanted to be there when he found the box , your arrival was nothing to do with Barbara Coleman going home . ’ |
| 6 | He had been there since he left the Pit a year earlier and Tom had spent a week or so with him back in February . |
| 7 | He was expecting a visit from the young woman he had been wooing assiduously and he had carefully orchestrated the evening so that all his housemates were out and he had the house to himself . |
| 8 | ‘ We are pretty certain Watson just mugged because they were there and he saw the chance of easy pickings without much danger of violence being offered back to him , ’ said a policeman . |
| 9 | but anyhow it , well they , they were there and he bought the pub did n't he and they were moving on the Saturday and he came on the Saturday morning and he cried take the furniture to pieces , some of the furniture , the wardrobes and there was a dining room table that they could n't get into the pub , could I dismantle them and re-assemble them again and that was the first time I 'd ever met him were n't I ? |
| 10 | He reckons it 's only because he loves the world and the people he knows that he hates the prevailing ‘ world order ’ . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | It 's best if he arranges the transport cos he knows what 's there . |
| 13 | It is not until he sees the motto ‘ Quit you like men ’ on the Vallens tombs in Flavonia that ‘ the burden of fear and foreboding slipped from him ’ and he sees the task before him not as that of a king struggling after an impossible ideal but as that of a man playing a man 's part : |
| 14 | Although Anderson does not demonstrate a similar degree of pomposity when interrupted by the chairman , in scene eleven , it is here that he shows the most glaring disdain of politeness moves . |
| 15 | It 's almost if he wants the ultimate submission . |
| 16 | Now , I did eventually get my father to tell me this ; and , according to him , it was just as he choked the last struggling life out of the dog that he heard another scream , this time from above , and inside the house , and that was the boy they called Paul being born . |
| 17 | Buildings , also , seldom appear in his paintings but this was not because he lacked the ability as his etchings show . |
| 18 | He acquired it partly by accident , for war was near when he ascended the throne . |
| 19 | My father 's explanation was that " It was simply because he liked the sight of blood " . |
| 20 | It said , In this house ( and the ceramic of the plaque had broken and the name was missing ) stayed on his first visit to the city , and it was here that he wrote the opening pages of his greatest work . |
| 21 | And he was here before he bought the place . |
| 22 | It was pitch black under the overhanging branches and it was n't until he reached the gate of Dobbs ' field that he was able , at last , to distinguish the shapes of the trees , and Dobbs and the wall by the churchyard . |
| 23 | ‘ It was n't until he produced the ring that I took him seriously . ’ |
| 24 | It was n't as he pretended the desire |
| 25 | It was then that he noticed the two men standing behind the butler in the shadows . |
| 26 | It was then that he heard the scream . |