Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [conj] he [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | That Neil was not sleeping there after all , or merely that he shut the flaps at night against the midges or the weather ? |
| 3 | Very soon he stopped , juggled the engines to and fro until he reckoned the bows were a hundred yards distant from the buoy , had the anchor dropped , then moved just as slowly astern , the anchor chain being paid out as he went . |
| 4 | It was L-shaped and only when he reached the comer of the ‘ L ’ could he see the whole of the room . |
| 5 | Only on his way home did he suddenly realize that illness could have prevented her from meeting him , and only when he entered the farmhouse that evening did he discover that she was dead . |
| 6 | Lancaster 's voice had suddenly become animated and loud as he recalled the sting of his betrayal . |
| 7 | Last I have a very pleasant task to perform , namely to ask Angela to kindly present to His Lordship a token of our loving esteem for all he has done for the Guild over the years and hopefully when he wears the vestment he will say a prayer for us all — AD MULTOS ANNOS . |
| 8 | ‘ I think he 's very important because of that fact , and also as he knows the French set-up and the way they play . |
| 9 | O stared , he did n't know for how long , at him and his outstretched hand , wondering whether to gasp it , fill it with change , or knock it away ; and then he looked up , because he heard his train coming and also because he felt the hot wind on his face . |
| 10 | In 1927 Welford Beaton was left in no doubt that the motion picture was ‘ a throbbing , living , human thing ’ after Janet Gaynor 's performance in Frank Borzage 's Seventh Heaven and especially by her grief as her husband left for the war ; Beaton had cried at the time and even as he wrote the spell was not broken . |
| 11 | He said the men had threatened his life , and even as he drove the victim to the beauty spot where the gang waited , one had been hiding in the boot of his car with a shotgun . |
| 12 | Herluin , when finally he did touch , touched as if the vellum might burn him , timidly and convulsively , and even when he had the book open , for better or worse , agonized a few moments over where to choose on the page , shifting from recto to verso and back again before settling . |
| 13 | If he lands on a tree or on the ground he sticks in like a dart , and even if he survives the impact he wo n't be able to free himself easily . |
| 14 | Strange 's outburst was directed at a cameraman who clicked as he addressed the ball , and then as he reached the top of the backswing . |
| 15 | Nothing , however , flew , and yet when he opened the closed hand , it was empty . |
| 16 | If correct , this apparently means that it was after the conquest of Norway in 1028 and therefore after he attended the imperial coronation of Conrad II of Germany in Rome in 1027 . |
| 17 | Mr Spielberg 's told Rosemarie he hopes so , but only if he finds the money . |
| 18 | But not before he kissed the top of my helmet and shouted at me : " Oh , my mum 's going to hear about this . " |
| 19 | Morel died soon after , but not before he had the bitter pleasure of seeing the Labour Government brought down with the aid of a ‘ red scare ’ engineered , it appeared at the time , by Foreign Office officials . |
| 20 | He heard the door close behind him , but just as he reached the gate it was hurriedly opened again and a voice called , ‘ Just a moment ! |
| 21 | But just as he put the rope over his head , he screamed in terror and threw his arms above his head . |
| 22 | He could see the Bible as drama not only because he believed in the Devil but also because he read the Bible as literature . |
| 23 | But even as he asked the question , D'Arcy already knew the answer . |
| 24 | Black gets it into the box Rozario got a header in but even as he headed the ball he limped away again and if he 'd have been properly fit then he would have really powered that one in . |