Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] he [adv] [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Albert Ball or William Booth or if he really wants a statue of a lady why not Maid Marian in a lace shawl ? |
| 2 | He was appointed to the Survey in July 1889 at the age of twenty-seven , and went to the Northern Highlands of Scotland , where he learned geological field techniques from the experienced surveyors B. N. Peach and C. T. Clough [ qq.v. ] , and where he also developed a lifelong fascination with Pre-Cambrian metamorphic rocks . |
| 3 | They told us that he had insulted most of their friends , and that he dearly loved a political argument . |
| 4 | All Boy could think of to explain this was that the man was older than he was , and that he actually had a husband in a sort of way , and not just for one night or a few nights , and so that had to be why he felt differently about the films he watched . |
| 5 | I wish Boswell had thought fit to quote as much as Johnson uttered , if only to observe Johnson 's intimate , word-perfect familiarity with Horace , and whether he also added a translation . |
| 6 | When he least needed the attention of a photographer one was sure to be on call and when he most needed a month of solitude away from screaming headlines , something from his past was inevitably dug up . |
| 7 | And when he finally produced a son in series two , you did n't so much ask ‘ when ? ’ as ‘ how ? ’ |
| 8 | She was not at the inn , not in the meadows , and when he finally found a sufficiently oblique way to ask where she might be , his misreading of the directions sent him along the wrong path past the wrong waterfall and up the surprisingly taxing slope of the wrong fell . |
| 9 | But although he now runs a hotel chain with 160 properties in 47 countries , he has never actually managed a hotel . |
| 10 | In this case I would think that , if the minister does not act in good faith , or if he acts on extraneous considerations which ought not to influence him , or if he plainly misdirects himself in fact or in law , it may well be that a court would interfere ; but when he honestly takes a view of the facts or the law which could reasonably be entertained , then his decision is not to be set aside simply because thereafter someone thinks that his view was wrong … |
| 11 | For an hour they flew a repetitive zig-zag from their base to the Front and back , until Callaghan 's neck was stiff and his eyes ached ; but when he suddenly spotted an aircraft he wanted to shout the news . |