Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] [conj] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His dissenting and mercantile interests came together most poignantly when he attacked the East India Company under the leadership of the court-connected Sir Josiah Child [ q.v . ] . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The earl mounted his horse and chased after it , but enjoyed the sport so much that he ordered the town butchers to supply a mad bull every year on 13 November in return for grazing rights on the meadows . |
| 4 | If necessary , take him shopping with you , or better still , send him to the supermarket alone so that he realises the cost of basic necessities . |
| 5 | Mr Robinson could have a wide brief as well , so long as he keeps the chancellor 's confidence . |
| 6 | Warner v. Browne the lessor engaged not to turn out the tenant so long as he observed the conditions , and in this case [ the company 's agent ] engages that the tenant shall hold until the company require to pull down the buildings . |
| 7 | So long as he had the support of Sir Rufus Stone , he could thumb his nose at Cotton . |
| 8 | The King , in the Declaration of Breda , had promised that no man would be molested for differences of religious opinion , so long as he kept the peace . |
| 9 | So long as he speaks the truth it can t be folly — that 's what you 're going to say , is n't it ? |
| 10 | ‘ Subject to this Part of this Act — ( a ) after the termination of a protected tenancy of a dwelling-house the person who , immediately before that termination , was the protected tenant of the dwelling-house shall , if and so long as he occupies the dwelling-house as his residence , be the statutory tenant of it ; … |
| 11 | I therefore do not regard those authorities as affecting what I would conclude was the clear language of section 2(1) ( a ) of the Act of 1977 , that a statutory tenant remains a statutory tenant so long as he occupies the dwelling house as his residence . |
| 12 | So long as he remembered the frailty of Dad 's grip on life , Dad 's fingers would never loosen and let go . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , I would predict that we will see Ray 's name in the records books before long , though , perhaps not until he turns the grand old age of 60 in another three or four years and can make a new charge up the age-group ladder . |
| 14 | Alf is periodically nodding at his son-in-law and suggesting that he would be better off if he read the book Alf has in his hands . |
| 15 | It was only later that he described the mistake as ‘ terminal ’ , but he knew originally that it was serious . |
| 16 | From The Silmarillion we can infer that Gandalf is a Maia , a spiritual creature in human shape sent for the relief of humanity ; much later than he finished the trilogy Tolkien indeed reportedly said ‘ Gandalf is an angel ’ . |
| 17 | Turner did the grand tour , certainly ; he learnt a lot in Italy , but he learnt equally a great deal from English artists and from Dutch artists and in so far as he used the grand tour , and used what Rome and other countries had to offer , that 's what every artist did , every European artist , not just the English . |
| 18 | He was , in so far as he underestimated the implications of one major disanalogy : he had no law that was to natural selection as the Newtonian inverse square law ( with proportionality to mass products ) was to gravitational attraction . |
| 19 | In so far as he means the random use of techniques removed from all contact with appraisal , then I think that he is right . |
| 20 | Throughout the whole of life , Man is happy or unhappy in so far as he discovers the right admixture for his life of these quite distinct manners of using energy . |
| 21 | Soon afterwards in 1838 he was appointed engineer and manager on the construction of the Box tunnel on the Great Western Railway , acquitting himself so well that he attracted the favourable notice of Isambard K. Brunel [ q.v. ] , so that on the completion of the tunnel he joined the engineering staff of the GWR . |
| 22 | She darted past him and opened the door that led to the store-room , then helped somewhat ineffectually as he dragged the mattress through and hefted it on to a stack of boxes . |
| 23 | Charlie began to kiss her again , this time more gently as he felt the corner of a beer crate jab into his buttocks . |
| 24 | ‘ Why , you must both come with us , ’ said Fräulein Müller to Karelius ' gratification , the more so as he glimpsed the chagrin in Lapointe 's dark face . |
| 25 | The imperialist attitude was accommodated in his books all the more easily because he put the emphasis on service and sacrifice rather than on nationalist domination or material gain : an approach that may seem hypocritical to present-day readers was sincere enough in a man who set out to be a philanthropist and reformer and became a best-seller . |
| 26 | Without taking his eyes off the stacks of machinery which shielded the glimmer from direct sight , Craig walked quickly backwards until he felt the entrance hatch to the Power Bay thump into his shoulder . |
| 27 | Sometime before he became king in 1625 , James I 's son Charles had adopted as his personal religion a conservative version of Protestantism known as Arminianism ; he had done so either because he disagreed with the doctrine of predestination , or more probably because he found the austere liturgy of undiluted Calvinism distasteful . |
| 28 | But no ball of fire climbed into the sky ahead of him and the familiar landmarks were still there as he passed the City of London Museum and slipped past St. Botolph-without-Aldersgate into Little Britain . |
| 29 | QUIZ king Tim Brownsett came top of the boffs once again when he scooped the Brain of North Staffordshire title for the second time . |
| 30 | Funnily enough — now this makes me think a bit , although it was probably just because he liked the name — he did call his daughter Hannah . |